Things are getting hectic and working on 3 different operating systems and using 2 USB sticks for transport is making file management complicated. Why 3 OSes:
• OSX: because my laptop means I can work anywhere
• Windows Vista 64: its my main machine at home and thus convenient
• Linux: Vista is unreliable at times and Blender isn’t 64bit on it yet.
A proper directory structure:
- Meta
- Blog
- Renders
- Screenshots
- Resources
- Images
- Links
- Tutorials
- Documents
- Examples
- Animatic
- Artwork
- Production
- Characters
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- Lil boy
- Butterfly
- Monster
- Mother
- Treant
- Environment
- Trees
- Props
- Intro foliage
- Teddie
- Toy train
- Pile o branches
- Mattes
- Sets
- Scenes
- List scenes…
- Audio
- Blog
Best thing is I have also found a free rSync gui for OSX (wittely named arRsync) so I can synchronise this directory across the network – I like this app much more than Chronosync which luckily I didn’t buy. Though I still get a bit anxious about an automated process like so will likely still copy manually to the USBs.
Also another caveat of this file structure is to utilise Blender’s workflow of linked files. I’ve been particlarly impressed with the production structures of the latest Blender open source movie Big Buck Bunny where they put particular importance on the animatice sequenced in Blender. I still need to test the linking of files like this.