Inside The Tiny Chef Show's art department: scheduling handmade sets for weekly delivery

Autodesk's account of ShadowMachine's art department on The Tiny Chef Show lays out how a weekly series schedules handmade fabrication at a pace a feature never has to match: Art Production Supervisor Whitney Schmerber oversees "scheduling, staffing, purchasing, tracking, and inventories" using Autodesk's Flow Production Tracking (formerly ShotGrid), work moves from a "Build Bible" concept-art reference through set fabrication, model shop, mould-and-cast and scenic teams, finished sets are broken into transportable "puzzle piece decks," and an Onstage Vetting (OSV) pass -- reviewable remotely via Flow Capture, formerly Moxion -- approves the set before an animator touches it. Bulk small hand props ("smalls": plates, bowls, mugs, utensils) are tracked as running inventory and rescheduled dynamically if a build falls behind. Speaking at WonderCon 2026, co-creators including Matt Hutchinson framed the payoff in craft terms, not workflow terms: the show is built from "stuff that you can touch... all tangible and real materials," and the team described audience backlash after a single AI-generated prop (a background book cover) slipped into one episode -- "the fans called it out instantly, and were so angry" -- as proof viewers can tell handmade work from generated work. The full scheduling pipeline is folded into the Wiki at tv-series-art-department-scheduling-stop-motion.