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A Study on the Efficiency & Limitation of 3D Animation Production Management Using Production Management Tool - Focusing on Shotgun Software & Ftrack

3D 애니메이션 제작 관리를 위한 제작관리도구(Tool)의 효율성 및 한계 - 샷건(Shotgun)과 Ftrack(에프트랙)을 중심으로

  • Received : 2017.10.09
  • Accepted : 2017.11.26
  • Published : 2017.12.31

Abstract

3D animation production has had a pivotal position in current animation industry and the necessity of professional management tool for 3D animation production has claimed due to its sophisticated pipeline from advance of technology and global production partnership trend. Shotgun and Ftrack are providing the most appropriate management toolset for 3D animation management among the extant management tools and the efficiency of Shotgun & Ftrack is identified compared with the traditional document oriented management style. The biggest strength of production management using Shotgun is that all of the production staff can directly participate in the communication on the tools therefore they can share the information on Shotgun & Ftrack in real time without constraint of time and location. Moreover, all the process of the production and the history of the discussion on certain production issues are systematically accrue on the tool so that the production history can be easily tracked. Finally, the production management using tools contributes collecting and analysing the production information for the production management team in studios. However, Shotgun & Ftrack has metadata based retrieval method which cost huge amount of effort by human's manual annotation and it also has the limitation of accuracy. In addition, the fact that studios has to have technical professionals first in order to institute the tools into their studios is the actual difficulty of Korean studios when they want to use management tools for their project. Thus, this paper suggests adopting the content-based retrieval system on the tools and tools' expanded technical service for the studios as the solution of the identified issues.

현재 애니메이션 산업의 주축이 되고 있는 3D 애니메이션은 그 기술이 발달하면서 더욱 복잡한 파이프라인과 글로벌 파트너쉽의 제작 트랜드로 인해 전문적인 제작 관리 도구의 필요성이 제기되어 왔다. 현존하는 제작 관리 도구 중 샷건(Shotgun)과 Ftrack(에프트랙)은 3D 애니메이션 제작에 가장 적합한 서비스를 제공하고 있으며, 전통적인 서류 중심의 제작 관리와 샷건이나 에프트랙을 활용한 제작 관리를 비교하였을 때 효율적인 면을 확인하였다. 샷건 등 제작관리도구를 통한 제작 관리의 장점은 인터넷이 연결된 곳이라면 시공간의 제약을 받지 않고 제작 구성원들이 직접 참여하는 의사소통이 가능하여 정보가 실시간으로 공유된다는 점, 의사소통 과정에서 이루어진 논의들과 제작 과정의 히스토리가 체계적으로 축적되어 이후 추적이 용이하다는 점, 제작 관리팀의 정보 취합 및 분석 업무에도 효율적으로 기여한다는 점 등이다. 하지만 이들 도구가 자료검색에 있어 메타데이터 방식을 사용하고 있어 데이터 구축에 노력이 많이 들며 정확성에 있어서의 한계를 가진다는 점, 또한 이들 관리도구 도입을 위한 전문 기술인력 확보가 선행되어야 한다는 점 등은 한국 스튜디오들이 관리도구를 도입하는 데에 부담을 가질 수밖에 없는 현실이다. 이에 대한 대안으로 이들 관리도구의 콘텐츠 기반 검색 방식의 도입과, 툴셋 제공보다 조금 더 확장된 기술 업무에 대한 서비스를 제안하는 바이다.

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