Development - Standard practicies

This is a standards document that should be followed when developing a film.

This is the directory hierarchy that will be used on all film projects.

Base Folder – Project Name

1. downloads = This folder contains items downloaded from the internet
2. export = This folder contains items exported by the given modeling application
3. import = This folder contains items that need to be imported into a modeling application, these most likely will be items downloaded from the internet
4. materiallibraries = These are the material libraries for the modeling application
5. renderoutput = this contains all the renders
   1. animatic = this contains the render animatic
      1. scene# = this contains the render animatic scenes
         1. shot# = this contains the shots for a given scene
            1. layer# = this contains the layers for a given shot, this may not contian multiple layers but still use the layer folder
   2. ruff = this is a render that shows the model and one texture with no lights and special effects, but this does contain various levels of animation
      1. scene# = this contains the render ruff scenes
         1. shot# = this contains the shots for a given scene
            1. layer# = this contains the layers for a given shot, this may not contian multiple layers but still use the layer folder
   3. final = this is a final render containing all lighting animation textures, bump maps, FX, everything
      1. scene# = this contains the render final scenes
         1. shot# = this contains the shots for a given scene
            1. layer# = this contains the layers for a given shot

This is a list of the way things should be named for models and scenes. The names of any part of the models should be descriptive. They should be camel cased. Underscores should be used to separate between type and name. All names should contain the type. Abbreviations are ok if they can be understood by more than one person.