Studio - What are its Usages?
Your Studio tab has three main pages:
1. My Work
2. TESSR Review
3. Playlists
Essentially, they’re here to provide support in the management of your work, through organisation—the essential project management factor. You’ll be able to gain a birds-eye view on all your work, annotate and amend, and compile your tasks—all for the sake of optimising your workspace.
Let’s delve deeper into its details:
Studio - My Work: How to Use
Under My Work, you can find all available projects and scenes. It consists of two major sections, “My Projects” and “My Scenes”.
My Projects: Provides an overview of an entire animation project, showing details like dates, Woohoo statuses and number of scenes.
My Scenes: Divide each scene by date, status, assignee or project—here, you can view the details of every scene that you are privy to.
What do you use My Work for?
Users can have a quick look at all tasks that are assigned to them—this provides the opportunity for you to have a refresher on what tasks you need to get done, helping you effectively plan your day. You don’t have to go through the painstaking task of manually looking for or checking on individual tasks. But here is a more comprehensive view of the specifics, of the “My Work” page.
Left-hand side: My Projects
1. Search Bar
Looking for a specific project? Cut down the amount of time you’d spend scrolling by hitting the search icon—type and press send for faster navigation.
2. Scene drop-down tabs
Click on the drop-down arrows to view:
The structure of a project includes Processes, Episodes and Takes.
The detailed Woohoo metre at each project’s level.
3. Woohoo
A project would usually consist of scenes that have their own metrics assigned to them. “My Projects” are one of the places you can view the donut chart of a project’s metrics and completion percentage, under Woohoo. Keep tabs on your project’s progress here—after all, data analysis is important for you to plan your creative projects with.
4. Sorting
There are three types—each allows users to either arrange sorting options in ascending or descending orders to best suit your needs in planning or tracking current priorities. Here are the three types.
i. Project Directory
This sorting arranges scenes in alphabetical order.
ii. Date
If you need to know which project has the closest due date, you can sort projects based on “Ascending” or “Descending” orders.
iii. Woohoo
Woohoo allows you to sort projects based on the completion progress of your works. Catch-up on your goals by checking which one has the lowest completion percentage and prioritise according to your own timeline.
*Woohoo meter:
Simply hover over the mini donut chart to see the number of scenes under different statuses. This will give you a quick insight into how many scenes await your next actions, and if any of them are dependent on others.
5. Preferences
Each individual is likely to differ in organisational preferences and needs. So, instead of a fixed view of all your projects, you can change what you see according to:
Time Range: Choose between the default option or a custom range.
Column: You can hide or show the Due date, Woohoo, Scene or Action columns. By narrowing down your field of view to see what truly needs to be seen, you’re able to be more meticulous with details and avoid distractions.
6. “Open In” Icon
To view a project in the Directory tab, do as shown above. Broadly, the Project Directory brings you to where you’re able to view and adjust a project’s plan.
7. Minimising the Left Panel
Hone your focus onto the right side of the screen, if you prefer to view individual scenes instead of overall projects.
Right-hand side: My Scenes
1. Scene Tile
i. Scene Properties:
(not editable) This is to view the rights or permissions on each scene, like its assignees, observers and playlist status. This feature helps TESSR’s team obtain necessary information if any user issues are reported. For example: A Team Lead assigns Scene A to Elena, and this scene belongs to a Playlist named “Project Jungle” which has already been shared with Elena. Scene A’s Properties on Elena account will show: - “Assignee”: an indicator that Elena is assigned to it. - “Shared (Playlist)”: signals that the scene belongs to a Playlist shared with Elena.
ii. Date:
View or adjust the start and end dates of a scene. This is highly recommended since it allows you to track and manage your timeline.
iii. More Actions:
Access a scene’s Woohoo Details, Scene Details, or open it in its designated Project Directory.
iv. Status:
Check or set a status to a scene. If you need to do the latter, choose from preset metrics or custom ones.
v. Assignee:
Check, add or remove assignees from a scene—however, you can only do the latter if your role has the permission to do so. Namely project leaders, coordinators and team leaders.
vi. Frames & Seconds:
View or edit a scene’s number of Frames and check how those add up in Seconds. To see the Seconds updated after changing its Frames, reload by using the extension button on the top right or the Refresh button on the top bar.
vii. Quality of Work:
(available on “Status” and “Project” tabs) Depending on your access permissions, you may rate the quality of the scene, from one (1) to five (5).
2. Tabs:
There are several tabs on the right side of your screen. Here, you can choose to view your work according to the following:
i. Date
This section organises your projects according to its due date. This helps you gauge which projects need your attention the most—essentially, it’ll help narrow down your options in your prioritisation process. It’s important to focus on tasks based on priority to avoid burning yourself out or missing deadlines.
ii. Status
You can reshuffle your scenes based on the status it has been assigned to. This can be useful if for example, you have chosen to organise your workflow by focusing on scenes by metric, simply look through this tab to hasten the process.
iii. Assignee
This is especially useful for team leaders or supervisors—but it can be useful to artists as well. To elaborate further, leaders may use this to keeps tabs on what scenes are assigned to whom. This may help with understanding who are the artists behind a scene or project. From there, you can set different expectations in both communication and collaboration for the optimal effectiveness. This may also help with gaining quick insight into work overloads or with checking who has space to work on a new task. However, TESSR’s new Insights page provides better details on this topic.
iv. Project
Under this tab, you’ll find the overarching projects of each scene you can view. If you plan to only focus on scenes from one or two projects in a single day, the “Projects” tab can give you a more concise view instead of scrolling through an endless page of scenes. Optimising your time spent in a single day can help your projects stay efficient, without removing quality.
3. Action bar
i. Refresh or Multi-select
Refresh:
If a newly added scene is not in this list or you just update Status but not yet see changes, simply click “Refresh now” on action bar.
Select:
You can select more than one scene to mass edit either its date, assignee or status. Besides that, you can also use this feature to open multiple scenes in the Review module in one go.
4. Preferences
Scene Order: Toggle “Recently Updated Scenes First” on or off.
Scene Display: Toggle to hide either “Planned”, “Active”, or “Completed” scenes, to further specify what you need on your screen.
Conclusion
This is just one part of the “Studio” tab. The “My Work” page provides an overview of your tasks, while the “Review” module allows you to nitpick at the smallest of details in each scene—the latter feature will be covered in the next article, so stay tuned!
Author Bio
From Malaysia, Leia Emeera is a writer at TESSR, and a published author. She has been putting pen to paper ever since she learned how to, and has an anthology to her name, titled 'Ten'. Leia loves music, games and her beloved labrador retriever, George. She aims to further her studies in English Literature and Creative Writing the moment her gap year ends. 'Till then, you will find her sitting behind a desk, writing with TESSR.
Connect with her on LinkedIn: Leia Emeera
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