If this sounds like your week
Format debates are fun until you have 6,000 deliverables.
The query “Substance Painter preview PNG batch WebP ArtStation prep” is usually about shipping WebP, AVIF, or sane JPEG—without a bespoke script per shoot. Material artists spin multi-angle PNG; ArtStation uploads punish uncompressed stacks.
Where tooling usually breaks
Browser converters are a queue with your files in the middle.
Upload, wait, download, repeat. That is not a pipeline; it is a ritual.
Scale reality
web: 12 images, squoosh energy print: 12,000, pipeline energy OpticBatch: the second one