Skip to content
newblender

Discovery 03 — Source inventory per pipeline stage (index)

Coverage at a glance

Section titled “Coverage at a glance”

Ratings: ● strong, ◐ usable, ○ thin.

Stage Human lens (Studio / manual / training) Real files to dissect Internal (dev docs + source) Why (design threads) Note
S01 Modeling ● ● base meshes, Cube Diorama, sculpt demos ● ● Best-covered stage
S02 UV & texturing ◐ manual only, no Studio page ◐ UDIM Monster, Poly Haven ○ no dev-docs page ◐ Weakest internal docs
S03 Shading ● ● 5.x shading demos ● ◐
S04 Geometry Nodes ● ● official demo corpus (4.2–5.2), node tools ● ● Most declarative stage
S05 Rigging ● CloudRig docs ● 22 free Studio rigs ● ◐
S06 Layout & assembly ◐ Studio layout page is a stub ● 5 production splash scenes + a real Sprite Fright shot ● ● overrides redesign
S07 Animation ● ◐ Ellie pose library, free rigs ● ● layered actions
S08 Simulation & FX ◐ ● sim-node demos ○ solver internals undocumented ●
S09 Lighting & rendering ◐ Studio rendering page is a stub ● benchmark + Cycles/EEVEE demos ● ◐
S10 Compositing ○ ◐ Tears of Steel plates ○ ◐ Thinnest stage
S11 Editing (VSE) ◐ ◐ 5.x storyboard demo, film masters ◐ ● Low staffing upstream
S12 Grease Pencil ● GP Fundamentals fully free ● GP demos, Gaku splash ● ●
X1 Pipeline ● naming, TD guide, project-tools ● studio-tools, Flamenco code ◐ —
X2 Python & extensions ● — ● ●
X3 Core architecture ◐ — ● ●

What we can and can’t get

Section titled “What we can and can’t get”
  • Can, free:
    • every document and line of source
    • the official demo/splash/benchmark scenes (5.x splashes come from Studio productions: Gold, House of Chores, DOGWALK, Singularity)
    • one real Sprite Fright shot file
    • 22 production rigs
    • the official Geometry Nodes demo corpus
    • the Studio pipeline code
  • Can’t, without a subscription: full film repositories (Wing It!, Singularity) and most video trainings.
  • Free substitute for a full film: the 5.x splash scenes are final, assembled production frames. Taken with the Sprite Fright shot and the Studio pipeline docs, they approximate a production end to end.

Corrections and caveats

Section titled “Corrections and caveats”
  • “Realistic Character Workflow” doesn’t exist as a Studio course (404). It is “Stylized Character Workflow” (about half free).
  • File contents are not yet inspected. “Free” means listed for download, not opened.
  • Design-thread items marked “listing” were not opened. Re-open before quoting.