I feel your pain. I took maters into my own hands and started teaching myself Maxscript. It has helped TONS and I'm not a programer at all. If you find yourself doing something over and over again, script it. Even then you need to be efficient with your time and just like in the cartoon if it takes more time to write the…
This is where I'm am at the moment. I started learning it during some down time between projects so that the next time there would be less manual repetitive drudge work. And soon after I started one of the animators in the studio ask me if I could make a simple maxscript to help him. The script itself is pretty simple, it…
Definitely, I come across this every single day. I can code and script/automate my way through life, but most workflow things over here are engine fixes that I can not fix myself. And when I try to talk some sense into the coder/management here, there's always a huge explanation why I wouldn't want said feature and why…