I would love to help on the usability part of the tool. Have been using Gear day in day out for quite some time now and I think if this would be, based on a similar idea, just unbelievable useful to have a modular rigging system independent to dcc apps.
2014-03-14 18:04 GMT+01:00 Sebastien Sterling <[email protected]> : > Would this be an artist friendly solution ? or more of a TD frame work for > rigging ? > > You guys are the best at any rate, good luck ! > > > On 14 March 2014 16:56, Paul Doyle <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone - I thought I'd let you know about an exciting project that >> we are involved with. I believe it serves a few purposes that are good for >> Fabric and good for you guys as well. It's very early days, but given >> recent events and the questions people keep asking us, I would rather get >> this out there now. >> >> >> >> We have formed a working group with Eric Thivierge (Hybride), Raffaele >> Fragapane (personal project, nothing to do with Animal Logic), Dave >> Gallagher (AnimSchool) and a few other people I don't think we can mention >> yet, but have equally impressive backgrounds. The goal of the group is to >> build a rigging system that takes full advantage of Fabric for performance, >> and also enables rigs to be moved between DCC applications that have been >> integrated with Fabric (Maya and Softimage for sure, possibly Max and >> Houdini later). If things proceed as we all hope then this tool will be >> used within Hybride for production and, more importantly, we will >> open-source the tool (note: it still needs Fabric to run) so that other >> people can contribute and/or fork for their own needs. >> >> >> >> If all goes well then Dave at AnimSchool will work with us to build a rig >> that shows off the capabilities of the approach. We will then work to >> producing the toolset for building these kinds of rigs. >> >> >> >> From Fabric's perspective, this approach will form the foundation of >> everything else we want to do with character animation (crowds, sims etc). >> We will be contributing time to the project to ensure all required Fabric >> components are in place and generally making sure things go smoothly. >> >> >> >> I have asked Eric to explain roughly what he's been doing with Fabric at >> Hybride and how he sees things moving forward. It is very early days, but >> we're committed to making sure this succeeds and proves what can be >> possible with this collaborative model. As things get nailed down we will >> start looking for interested parties to get involved with the effort. >> Something to be crystal clear on is that Fabric is not leading this >> project, and have no veto over design - we'll offer our expertise but it's >> critical that this is driven by the production people involved. It also >> means the model is scalable for us. >> >> >> >> We are looking at a few other areas where this might be possible, so if >> you have the technical chops to build a similar group then please contact >> me. Fabric benefits greatly from this, as we have other people building >> production-level tools and workflows with us - however, we do give free >> licenses to individuals so I think there's a certain amount of goodwill >> shown there. >> >> >> >> Interested to hear your thoughts on this. >> >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> >> >> Paul >> > >
