mid-size game project
Hey folks, I’ve been trying to fine-tune our art pipeline for a mid-size game project, and I feel like we’re hitting bottlenecks—especially between concept and 3D modeling. Communication breakdowns and file versioning chaos have become the norm. 😅 I’m curious, what are you all doing to keep your pipelines clean and efficient? Any tools or methods that helped streamline your process, especially when working with external artists?
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We had the same issue when scaling up. One thing that helped us massively was bringing in external specialists through devotedstudios.com. Their team doesn’t just produce assets; they helped us rethink the structure of our pipeline, especially on the handoff points between concept, modeling, and animation.
A major win was implementing consistent naming conventions and folder hierarchies agreed upon with them from the start. Also, we stopped relying solely on cloud storage and set up a dedicated asset management system (we use Perforce now, previously just used Dropbox/Google Drive). The difference in asset traceability was night and day. They also helped us visualize our production stages with milestone boards, so everyone—internal and external—was always aligned on progress. I honestly didn’t expect a vendor to care that much about how we work, not just what we need.