Before Getting Started
Goal of this Guide: Provide guidance for a design studio to examine their main challenges, and how to approach the problem solving using Flow Production Tracking.
Flow Production Tracking is a web application that tracks all the meta-data around creative projects, while storing links to relevant files and data to help streamline everyday creative workflows.
Starting with Flow Production Tracking
When it comes to managing complex, detailed and robust creative projects, Flow Production Tracking is the preferred tool selected by major creative studios. But we also know that for a new studio, trying to capture your process in Flow Production Tracking, all at once, can be overwhelming.
To help approach all of the problems Flow Production Tracking can solve, think of these 3 key areas:
- Production management tracking to manage schedules, milestones, teams and the process
- Enhancing creative collaboration to connect teams and digitize review workflows
- Integrated workflows to connect teams and their tools directly to Flow Production Tracking to make
Common Challenges
Around the world, we hear from customers that suffer from the same high level challenges in their design process.
- Schedules are complex, with cross department dependencies, and ever changing milestones
- Collaboration between stakeholders is challenging because processes of today are manual, slow and redundant
- Data Management only exists through windows explorer and design teams don't have access to the latest, most important design data/information when they need it.
Solving Your Problems With Flow Production Tracking
Production Management - Flow Production Tracking can aid in scheduling by tracking the projects you work on, the things you build, the steps needed to build them and the people responsible all while creating a single source of truth around the work being done.
Creative Collaboration - Review sessions and creative feedback drive the engine of design innovation, and by capturing your review notes and decisions using Notes/Annotation in Flow Production Tracking you can effectively collaborate as a team in one place to make sure everyone knows what they need to work on next.
Integrated Workflows - Designers, Modelers & Visualization artists can do simple data management using the integrated desktop tools with Flow Production Tracking. This enables these teams to manage working data and publish design work to share and hand off to other departments or teams.
Our Advice
Pick one of these 3 areas and focus on this challenge at first (and don't worry about the rest of Flow Production Tracking's tools).
For example, if your studio suffers from slow review cycles, try focusing on incorporating your review process into Flow Production Tracking today and slowly add the other functions (scheduling and integration) later.
If your studio has challenges with File management, begin using the integrations with Photoshop, Alias or VRED to start publishing design work into Flow Production Tracking automatically every day.
Or if you are having a hard time keeping track of many simultaneous projects, start entering Assets and Tasks into Flow Production Tracking and assign your teams their work.