This video is a Dreamworks satire of a real process of the animation called the production pipeline. It’s the flow of work and assets through different production departments and software in production. Standard departments are the story, art, layout, modeling, texturing/shading, rigging, animation, lighting/compositing, and VFX (visual effects). How the pipeline is manage is by studio’s make use of production coordinators to track, maintain assets and shorts they process through the pipeline. Most studios employ a staff of programmers and infrastructure technicians to maintain, build and mange the pipeline. In conclusion, this is a general explanation of the process, there are few more steps in pipeline that are not being explored, but if you like you can research more at your leisure.

 The production pipeline