Thursday, August 21, 2008

Raghunath Animation Industry Survey

Experience:

1) Your experience in this industry has been

Excellent

Good

Average

Poor

Planning:

2) As a team member, have you been part of all the projects planned in your organisations? (Please don’t count your part as a lead or manager)

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

3) You like to be part of the planning team.

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

4) You believe that the person who does the work should be part of the planning exercise.

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

5) Have you started any project without receiving requirements?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

6) Have you started work on a project without knowing who is leading the project?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

7) Is there a document that formalises a project?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

8) Project managers changed more than once in any project?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

9) Did you have a formal and transparent reward system for projects?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

10) All your projects have been formally closed, incentives distributed and certificates issued in time?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

11) Did you have to jump from one project to another affecting your performance and morale?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

12) There are projects which demand skills different from the ones that your organisation had. In such cases, has your project manager organised a training program to enable the team to perform the project?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

13) Have you been trained on getting additional skills (ex: character animator gets trained on visual effects)?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

14) How much of your time has been used by your organisations effectively?

75 - 100%

50 - 75%

25 - 50%

Less than 25%

15) Did you have a healthy family life throughout your career in animation?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

16) You had parties or team building exercises such as family outings sponsored by the organisations?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

17) Are you proud to say you worked in animation?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

Pipeline: 18) Organisations that you worked have had a simple and effective pipeline.

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

19) When the pipeline was altered for some technical reason, were you trained ahead of start of the project?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

20) Have you experienced situations when a part of the team did not or could not understand the pipeline?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

21) Have you documented lessons learned from projects?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

General:

22) Did you know what would happen if you did not complete your role properly?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

23) You had regular skill upgradation sessions (training programs)?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

24) Do you have a library of project assets so that you can re-use them over and over for current and future projects?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

25) Do you have life insurance provided by your organisation?

Yes

No

I dont know

Is it provided by organisations?

Pre-production: 26) Did you as part of the pre-prod team know who is the project's target audience?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

27) Are you able to interact with at least a section or group of the target audience?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

28) Have you had access to the survey documents if the survey was conducted by some professional organisation?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

29) The basic character design or concept document gets redesigned after much of the project is completed?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

30) Have you as part of the pre-prod team got to know the technical limitations of the designs that you created?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

31) Have you been trained in the technology part of the animation development?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

32) Have you set benchmarks and explained to the management on the concept designs? (Developmental challenges with complexity of designs)

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

33) Do you have documentation of the number of hours you spent on projects?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

Production:

Modeling: 34) You had the final character design to start modeling?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

35) You start modeling with a scanned photo and have to assume the dimensions?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

Rigging: 36) Have you understood the requirements of the characters' range of movements, characteristics before you started the rigging?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

37) Due to change in the character design, have you had to re-rig the character after much of animation got over?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

Animation: 38) Do you have a proper way to save your animations for re-use?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

39) Certain projects if not all would require you to access the rig file through 'create reference' or 'X-Ref'. Have you been trained to use these options during projects?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

40) Have you had a separate place to practice your 'acting'?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

Lighting:

41) Have you understood the rendering requirements of the projects?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

VFX:

42) Have you had clear input regarding visual effects requirement?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

43) Have you had an opportunity to talk to your predecessors - animators and lighting artists and explain them about your process and input requirements?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

Quality:

44) Does your organisation follow a published quality policy?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

45) Have you had proper quality metrics?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

46) Is there a quality benchmark (grading) for the various types of project your organisation has performed or planning to perform?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

47) Do you have a separate department for quality?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

48) Do you have checklists for the various activities that you perform?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

49) Are such checklists accessible to the entire team at any point in time?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

50) Have you had a finalised, published project plan?

Always

Mostly

Sometimes

Never

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