How to contribute?

attributes, skills, emotions, people that muffin needs

What can i do?

There are many different ways to contribute to the project. Here is a brief list:

Visit the project site every once in a while and give us your feedback.
Tell your friends about this project (twitter, join the facebook group, …)
Write a good story for one or more episodes!
Do concept drawings
Design a character
Write a script
Help to draw a storyboard
Design the set
Model 3D stuff ( characters, assets, environments,..)
Create Textures
Rig a character
Animate a scene
Make a light-/render layer set up.
Composite and edit the footage.
Audio editing
Voice acting
Compose the music/a soundtrack
Administration (for the website, the forum, …)
Provide your PCs for rendering
Motivate the rest of the team with kind words
Correct my spelling and grammatic mistakes.

and so on…

Why should I contribute?

Your formal benefits are a valueable feedback from experienced users, an entry in the credit section of this homepage and of course in the credits of the resulting animation!
But probably the biggest benefit is that you get the chance to be part of a bigger production and cooperate with volunteers from all over the world. In the end it should be about enjoyment of creating computer graphics/animation/art, so jump on board!

How do I start?

If you want to help actively, the first step is to take a look at the TASK LIST. Find a task, that sounds interesting to you and drop a comment or a note in the forum that you’re starting to work on it. Be sure to meet the deadlines of the tasks (or tell us until when you can finish things).

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If you want to stay informed about the muffin or specific things only, you can subscribe to this blog.

We created lots of specific categories, so you can choose what you’ll be informed about. In order to subscribe to specific categories you have to register to this blog or you can use the fancy facebook connect.

What tools do I need?

I highly recommend also to look at the production pipeline definition in order to avoid formal conflicts. You can find all kinds of information about used tools/software and file formats there.

I finished a task. How do I deliver the result?

You have to create a new thread in the forum, where you can attatch your work. It will then be reviewed by the community.

Everybody is invited to give feedback to your work (by posting it or use the forums in-built rating system). This is very important, especially if we have to decide between multiple options (e.g. multiple story plots). Please don’t be disappointed if your work won’t get accepted or gets negative critique in first place. See it as a chance to improve it further and raise the level of you skills.

Once your work gets accepted, the decision will be posted here/the forum and of course you will be credited properely for your work

If you you can’t finish the task you started before the deadline, post the current state. Maybe, if you’ve done great so far, the community will consider to move the deadline.

Where can i find the production files?

The forum will work perfekt for posting text, single images, links, standalone scene files etc, but it’s not suited for posting rendered animations or a scene file hirarchy.
Therefor we use a Subversion repository for all production scene files. Subversion is a version control software that let’s you fetch the data at ease. Find out more about it here:

Subversion for Muffin Artists – Tutorial

For bigger files where version control makes no sense ( like renderings etc. ) we probably will use FTP servers for exchange.