How would I setup some kind of template that creates tasks, due dates, and assignments automatically.

Question

Basically I want to setup something (project, workflow, template, list item), and what I would like it to do is:
1. Ask for a name (text field, ex. "create business cards")
2. Ask for a due date (date, ex.  "9/1/2015")
Then based on those items, a number of tasks are created with relative due dates and assignments, ex. :
"send email to marketing for logo" assigned to John Smith
"Get logo approved from designer" due "8/1/2015" (1 month previous to due date), assignemd to Robert
"send logo to shipping company" assigned to Matthew.
And this process should be repeatable many, many times.  Say we are a business card company, so we need to do this same process over, and over again. 
I'm hoping to use as much OOB as possible, without any programming, but not sure where to even start looking.  I've googled Task Templates, and Templated Task List, and stuff like that, but not finding much.  I'm learning more about Workflows,
but not sure if that will even help me in this.  Thank you all!
Edit: I have full access (system administrator) on SharePoint 2013 Enterprise. 

Answer 1

Russ,
If you watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7a_7KiE9vk you'll get a very good idea of how to develop the content type form, and then check out the Lynda Designer tutorial to build the workflow:  http://www.lynda.com/SharePoint-tutorials/Using-parallel-blocks/144025/161226-4.html?autoplay=true
Basically, you build the custom form, make it the default document for a list, every time someone opens and saves that form  as a new document, your workflow is triggered on it and the tasks and emails you noted above get fired off.  You'll want
to pay attention to the differences between SP 2010 and SP 2013 Designer workflows (and will likely want to go with SP 2013 workflows).  I think you'll also want to go with a List Workflow over the other choices.  If you have 2 days mostly uninterrupted,
you'd be able to watch the tutorials and get a basic workflow in place; Designer and Workflow Mgr on the server can be a bit tricky, so installing those may be more of an issue than the actual development.
Chad