Directing A 3d Short. In Other Words, Please Kill Me Now!

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I've directed a couple of 3d short films and most of which has complete newbie members when it comes to creating an animation short (4 to 5 minutes total runtime). Some never really got finished and there's this other one I'm doing right now. This team reminded me of the first team I joined, which was based here in my country. I remember I was originally begging to take the rigging and animation spot because that's where I excel. During the first few weeks, they gave me a "go" on rigging but someone said that the positions are flexible so I had to be ready if ever there's a shift in positions. I just thought alright, they can put me on animation, modeling or compositing and I think I'll do fine but to hell with that, I was darn wrong. They assigned me as the director! At that time, I haven't directed ANYTHING my entire life so I asked them why they're putting me there. They simply said they needed directions so I agreed. Directing newbies is really a drag. I remember some users already starting on animation when there aren't even any concepts for the characters. I remember some started presenting me test animations and test renders of environments they've made. I said, "Stop modeling first, the concepts aren't finished yet and your models might get scraped off." I couldn't give a straight answer to them because I, too, weren't sure of what the concept artists were going to come up with. The whole thing just blew to proportions of different sizes and shapes and the whole project didn't pull through. :( Right now this happened again but this time I'm a co-director. Thank God, though, there were others who also understands how to be organized and everyone was doing their part patiently.