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title: "Real-Time Project Management for Film"
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last_updated: "2026-08-04T14:21:35.000Z"
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# Real-Time Project Management for Film

Use these slides to plan and manage a real-time Unity production, from pipeline setup to team workflow and schedules.

This document serves as a reference to help you develop your project management plan for working on a Real-Time production in Unity. These slides will help you determine how to adapt your pipeline for Unity and assess how working in Real-Time affects timelines and schedules. Use the slides to help manage your team configuration and project review cycles so your production runs smoothly from start to finish.

## 1. Real-Time Project Management for Film

This document serves as a reference to help you develop your project management plan for working on a real-time production in Unity. These slides will help you determine how to adapt your pipeline for Unity and assess how working in real-time affects timelines and schedules. Use the slides to help manage your team configuration and project review cycles so your production runs smoothly from start to finish.

![Figure 1: The Unity Real-Time Spiral depicting multiple departments working in unison and iteratively through review cycles to the final product](https://connect-mediagw.unity.com/h1/20190612/learn/images/07ee1a34-b390-4e30-bd2d-c8a404e73d7d_Figure01.jpg)

## 2. Sequential Production Pipeline

![Figure 2: A traditional sequential production pipeline](https://connect-mediagw.unity.com/h1/20190612/learn/images/c2a4a4a8-5ad0-446c-a99c-57ae98b6841d_Figure02.jpg)

## 3. Real-Time Pipeline

![Figure 3: A Real-Time pipeline, in which multiple teams are working in unison](https://connect-mediagw.unity.com/h1/20190612/learn/images/b177748e-0a24-4782-9903-666bebae37a0_Figure03.jpg)

## 4. Unity Film Pipeline

![Figure 4: The ways Unity integrates into, or replaces, a traditional animation pipeline](https://connect-mediagw.unity.com/h1/20190612/learn/images/fbd13390-281e-4173-9031-923e289c692b_Figure04.jpg)

## 5. Teamwork

![Figure 5: The Timeline track configuration of Sherman, which allows teams to work simultaneously on a project](https://connect-mediagw.unity.com/h1/20190612/learn/images/1677d45e-ba19-4b19-a0a3-0abc3758572b_Figure05.jpg)

## 6. Gantt Chart

![Figure 6: A Gantt used during the production of Sherman](https://connect-mediagw.unity.com/h1/20190612/learn/images/944f0353-7902-4486-b52a-be70df321e8c_Figure06.jpg)

## 7. Reviews

![Figure 7: The types of reviews done in a Real-Time production](https://connect-mediagw.unity.com/h1/20190612/learn/images/f7d88da6-39bb-46da-8b79-8ae8b63aa248_Figure07.jpg)

## 8. Staff

![Figure 8: A list of team members involved in creating Sherman](https://connect-mediagw.unity.com/h1/20190612/learn/images/6960e658-6026-4003-973b-4a12aa170fdf_Figure08.jpg)

## 9. Conclusion

Real-Time production with Unity presents many exciting creative opportunities, but as with any production, a good project management plan is critical to a successful production delivered on time and within budget.