Shamelessly plugging Species here. We have a good amount of preset body types which can be enhanced beyond that with the various blend shapes that come with it as well. Our tool allows for pretty decent amount of customization with the ability to generate an animation rig out of the Proportional Rig. Rig generates within ~1-2 minutes. The rig structure we provide is easily simplified for CrowdFX as well. With our 1.6 release we provide a low res mesh for Crowd work and also helps for speeding up animation playback as well.
Our meshes, deformers, and skinning goes over to Maya via FBX export very well and our deformers can be plotted and exported if you have anim on it as well. Download trial here: http://exocortex.com/products/species -------------------------------------------- Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Jeff McFall <[email protected]> wrote: > I will echo all the comments about it being VERY slow. I tried again > today but it is the same.**** > > And the models are indeed not very impressive, at least the high res ones > I saw. They appear to just be up interpolated versions of the low res > version. In fact they all seem to share the same primary structure. I > guess this is why dresses are not an option. J The low res ones could > be useful I think as distant crowd elements.**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > That said, having an easily accessible catalog of usable characters is a > real bonus. I would really welcome something like this especially if the > rig was assured to integrate easily.**** > > It puts features like CrowdFX in a much more useful position for > situations where resources may not provide other options (as has already > been said as well)**** > > ** ** > > Seems like a good idea, maybe just not implemented as well as could be. I > realize that is easy for me to say.**** > > I can certainly find use for this as is, but it seems to have a lot of > unexploited potential as well.**** > > ** ** > > My 2c**** > > ** ** > > Jeff**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *ivan tay > *Sent:* Thursday, April 04, 2013 1:58 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Pinnochio 3D characters**** > > ** ** > > Yes! Give it a try and let us know how you feel about it. We like to hear > from you :)**** > > ** ** > > -Ivan**** > > [email protected] (remove nospam. from email)**** > > ** ** > > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Adam Sale <[email protected]> wrote:**** > > yeah, its been nice to use it for some crowd work I was doing, and the > characters work well with Motionbuilder too. **** > > ** ** > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Jeff McFall <[email protected]> wrote:* > *** > > I thought this was pretty cool, wish I had discovered it a few months ago. > > http://projectpinocchio.autodesk.com/ > > > **** > > ** ** > > ** ** >
