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Slava Borovik

20 days

Omg, I didn't expect it to go so viral 😱 Thank you all for the kind support! 😀 I should mention that the inspiring idea of adjustment blending was originally revealed by @danlowlows and there is a tool for mobu

GitHub - Danlowlows/MobuCore: A library of functions for common tasks in Autodesk Motionbuilder.

A library of functions for common tasks in Autodesk Motionbuilder. - Danlowlows/MobuCore

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

20 days

I created a script for Maya that significantly speeds up and simplifies the animation adjustment. It is a huge time saver and replaces hours of routine work with just a few clicks done in seconds. The tests went well, so I think the beta is ready to be revealed. Here is a 🧵

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

11 months

About a year ago I wrote a detailed breakdown of my locomotion in the Unreal Engine. There is an info about the state machines, animation blueprints, blendspaces like walk & jog/starts/stops/turns/leans, and many tricks, could be useful for game or technical animators. link below

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

11 months

I've tried to write a script to deal with angle extraction for driving corrective joints. Managed to get stable work in the -180+180 degrees range, two axes simultaneously, with no custom nodes involved. Anyone who dealt with Euler rotations knows how tricky it could be :D

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

9 months

When going from Unity to Unreal it's easy to be confused, like the "any state" in Unity Animator - doesn't exist in UE and instead of it - we use slots & montages. Some time ago when I was digging into the UE animation components basics - I wrote a summary, link below :D

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

2 months

It's funny how you can create a spline in Maya with just a few lines of code and a simple math

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

9 months

This spring I took an advanced rigging class, at first, the plan was to create a regular humanoid rig, but in the process, I've got a little excited and scripted most of the work, so I'd like to present you the "Pickle Rig" demo, first version 😀

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

11 months

a link to the breakdown:

Locomotion + Sword Combat, Technical Animation Demo

This is a project I've been working on for a while - advanced locomotion inside Unreal Engine + battle system with the enemy prototype. The project is root-motion based, 97% of main character...

www.behance.net

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

19 days

here is some test I did with HIK a month ago

Cloud Strife

@sakugamation

19 days

@BorovikMotion Ok, but it works with HIK rig right?

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

2 years

I just finished a personal project I've been working on for a while, an advanced locomotion and battle system in #UnrealEngine , similar to RPG #games Detailed description Play the build Big Thanks @GameAnim for the Azri rig

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

2 months

Implementing tooltips for Maya scripts be like:

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

20 days

The script is available at my Gumroad page here: It is not free, but I think it is a very small price considering how much time it saves in work. Thank you for watching! If you have any questions - feel free to ask!

Smart Layer v0.57.4, Beta (Python Script for Maya)

Smart Layer is a script for Autodesk Maya that allows you to adjust animation in a very easy and quick way. Usually, we adjust animation with animation layers. But with this approach, each change r...

borovikmotion.gumroad.com

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

20 days

This is a perfect situation to use the script with the offset algorithm. The script "understands" how to apply the shift in the animation layer, so the result would look organic, and there would be no feet sliding:

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

3 years

Octopus animation #madewithspine

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

6 years

Check out my new 2d animation reel #madewithspine :)

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

7 months

Recently found a series of cool tutorials about maya api, thoroughly describing how to create your own commands, nodes and even custom deformers. Perfect stuff for the weekend 😀 I'll attach the link below

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

20 days

one more example of a transform algorithm in work. Looks kind of silly, but shows the idea, the whole animation is rotated by 2 full turns:

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

20 days

Let's start with a simple stuff. Very often we need to change the animation distance, to match the environment/ game design metrics/ or to maintain the required movement speed. Doing it directly with animation layers causes feet sliding, resulting in boring manual work.

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

9 months

link to the summary: Mostly for beginner animators and technical animators

FPS Tutorial Unreal Engine

Hi! Recently I've made some test animations for a concept of a shooter game, and I thought it might be worth doing some summarizing and sharing the information in the tutorial format. I'll try to...

www.behance.net

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

7 months

Although creating custom Python nodes in Maya sounds like a wonderful idea, need to be careful with putting it in the rigs, as it easily can create bottlenecks preventing other nodes from execution. This is an exaggerated example, but it's always a good idea to profile things 🙂

Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

7 months

Recently found a series of cool tutorials about maya api, thoroughly describing how to create your own commands, nodes and even custom deformers. Perfect stuff for the weekend 😀 I'll attach the link below

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

20 days

We can go further and besides a simple shift apply the whole pose to the animation! The script interpolates delta by position/rotation, resulting in a smooth no-feet-sliding blend. You can have one animation with many different idles, plus it solves gimbal issues along the way:

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

20 days

And the application goes beyond that, you'd be surprised to see what people invent with this technique, for example, here is how you can create a strafe animation from walk-forward in less than one minute:

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

20 days

Sometimes you need the adjustment to be a little bit more curved, and this is the case where the spline algorithm kicks in! It allows to achieve a smooth movement using just a few keyframes, and again, no feet sliding:

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

4 years

Hair simulation and locomotion test inside #UnrealEngine with the Azri rig from @GameAnim #azririg #gameanim #animation #UE4

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

2 months

Kind of like that one? 😀

Dylan Jones

@Posthaste_

2 months

@BorovikMotion That's dope! Can we see a bezier one?

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

19 days

Hey guys, I'm receiving some questions and I want to be fully transparent. I haven't used anybody's code or formulas in my script. I didn't even know about Dan's github page until 2 days ago. The script was developed completely from scratch, otherwise it'd be unethical to sell it

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

20 days

I'd like to thank everyone who found the time to participate in testing, that was very helpful.🙇‍♂️Right now the script is technically in beta (as it is only a few months old). Tested in Maya 2020-2025 on Windows/Mac OS, with rigs Advanced Skeleton, Mgear, HIK and others. Thanks!

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

20 days

Almost forgot about the little cherry on top. The script works not only with bipeds but with any characters, quadrupeds, spides, bizarre monsters - whatever, it's just math, so there is no difference. I'm going to prepare a video, but need to find a proper rig & animation first

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

3 years

New project #madewithspine other animations:

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

6 months

blauereiter

@blauereiter

6 months

Tell me what you do for work, using only gifs.

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

20 days

With spline you can easily "bend" animation, for example, here a character attack-forward is transformed into a directional attack, and no manual work is required. This technique can be used to make character's starts, skills, reactions, etc.

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

7 years

#animation for in #spine2d #madewithspine

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

6 years

#madewithspine Rig overview -

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

3 months

Idk why Maya native animation layers merge is so slow. Recently I wrote a plug-in which merges animation layers ~150 times faster than vanilla, using only basic c++. But probably need to hurry up with publishing 😅

Red9 Consultancy

@Red9_Anim

3 months

@AdskMaya #techart #red9 Next build of Red9 ProPack is now in Beta with a ton of updates, including anAnimLayer merge function that, on average, is 5 times faster than Maya's internal one! In our test scene, 700frms, 17 animlayers, Maya's MergeLayers takes 35secs, ours takes 7 :)

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

20 days

By combining rotation and offset we get a movement in a circle. To make the whole process easier you can use a helper rig - an additional feature that helps to locate objects in the correct spot:

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

20 days

And finally the transformation algorithm. It allows us to interpolate not just position/rotation, but the whole transformation matrix. So, when we turn the character, the whole turn itself is interpolated. Super helpful when need to add rotation to the animation:

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

2 months

here is an updated version of a spline: and the source code, if anyone is interested:

Cubic Bezier Spline in Maya (Free Python script)

Concept of a cubic Bezier spline in Maya. You can use this script to investigate how to create a Bezier spline using simple python code, or modify it to fit your needs. Usage: Open an empty scene, ...

borovikmotion.gumroad.com

Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

2 months

Kind of like that one? 😀

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

6 months

@archieldc animation vibe be like:

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

4 years

Koalas animation #madewithspine rig overview part of a new match3 game what a wonderful world

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

6 years

Merge Gnomes - a new game #madewithspine

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

6 years

Some #animation tests for the Donut - Ninja character #madewithspine Full animations and #rig description:

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

8 years

Рабочий процесс #Spine2d #spine , для

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

4 years

Hi, I've made a tutorial on how to prepare and import first person #animation into the #UnrealEngine #UE4 , tried to describe all blueprint & state machine stuff, locomotion setup & montage play and more, hope this would be useful for #game animators

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

6 years

Finally, I uploaded on behance one of my old projects - One Day on the Farm, You can find a lot of others #animation #madewithspine by following this link: have fun watching! :)

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

4 years

Recently made this flamingo animation for Bounce Patrol, looking forward to seeing how kids gonna react to it :D #madewithspine

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

20 days

@Faidren fyi no ai involved. only math and python

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

3 years

Mole animation #madewithspine

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

11 months

@KielFiggins So, I used a locator + closestPointOnSurface node with a nurbs plane transformed into a sphere, so there are proper UV values and no flips. After that numbers could be clamped/remapped. This is not a 100% precise way, but it works :D

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

2 months

Does anybody use HIK for animation in Maya? I'm working on a script, and with every other rig it works perfectly, but HIK rotations is just something else.. it changes without even asking Kind of unclear how it is even supposed to be used when results are so unpredictable 🤔

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

7 months

For the last few days I'm trying to learn C++, and it's quite fun, the performance gain compared to python is 🤯, even in non-computation tasks like converting numbers to strings the difference could be 10-20 times, here is some test:

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

11 months

My first try at face rigging in Maya. Gonna be honest, python scripting is much easier than creating a believable face rig/animation 😅 Can't even imagine how much time & effort need to spend to become a pro in it

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

6 years

Some more #animation #madewithspine from Merge Gnomes. By the way, the skins option is something really remarkable. More characters:

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

20 days

@Faidren with all due respect, AI requires the data to train it, and creative people's concern is about how this data was gathered. Ai companies mostly just scrapped the internet without anybody's consent, so it is technically a theft, and stealing is not cool

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

2 months

@TaSiang I just needed a spline logic for my new script, and remembering seeing this gifs sometime ago I implemented a simple example, but using naming A-B-C-D instead of p1-p2-p3-p4

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

6 years

@Er1k4r1 the same thing in motion #madewithspine

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

1 month

wait, did autodesk just removed 2020 version? how am I supposed to test scripts on older versions now😱

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

7 months

tutorials: Even though it's quite old, the concepts are explained very clear. But you need to keep in mind that in openMaya api v2 some things are done in a little bit different way. And some things would require a little bit of googling

(Maya Python API) 01 - Introduction

Complete Maya Python API course for Artists and Technical Artist.After a successful run of this course for many years on CGCircuit and trusted by hundreds of...

www.youtube.com

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

4 months

A typical day working with Unreal Engine. Spent 2 hours trying to figure out why my control rig was not working, until realized that float arrays are broken😲And after the engine restart the issue magically disappeared🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

5 months

everyone: 🎄🎄🎄 me: here is a fractal noise deformer updating 1 million points geo in realtime😄

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

9 months

@henningsanden Basically the algorithm these days is very tik-tokish, and you’ll have more reach by posting 10 small videos rather then publishing a one cool large video, where the retention drops 95% after the first 30 seconds 🥲

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

11 months

One more feature of Pickle Rig - is an easy reverse foot setup. It works in 2 steps - positioning proxy locators & pressing build. It might look controversial, but I've noticed that these controls are the most used by animators, and having more ctrls usually just distracts people

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

4 years

New animation for kids #madewithspine - bunny hopping cycle

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

7 years

@belamova на самом деле на кадре сотрудник омона помогает пенсионерке встать! будьте объективными

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

9 days

a peculiar thing in Maya om.MTransformationMatrix.translation() returns data in centimeters cmds.xform(t=1, q=1) returns in current units (can be meter, inch, foot, yard, etc.)

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

3 months

So sad this thing is focusing only on cinematics and beauty shots, and there is no chance to show animation systems, fancy control rigs or gameplay prototypes

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

4 months

Good rigging tutorials, I'd like to add, besides learning "how to do X in software Y", it's super important to focus on fundamentals, like: - anatomy and how the body works - how 3d software works, linear algebra, programming then you'll be able to do anything in any software

s.infiniti

@infinitisirrena

4 months

Here is a thread on what classes I took to get my rigging to where it was and what I would recommend right now!

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

1 year

Having some fun with python scripting in Maya

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

4 years

About 2 years ago I took part in small fancy mobile game project, the gameplay based on collecting different kind of kittens 😺 Animation was done in Spine software, I'll post some animations here, starting with Cheetoh cat #madewithspine Other cats:

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

4 years

@ArtOfReinaV @Marcel_Hampel Thank you! 😃 in general, it's very similar to 3d, same rig and bones techniques for movement, and mesh deformation #madewithspine

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

10 months

@izzyccheng You’ll laugh, but I’d ask how the person would do the forearm twist setup 😅

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

4 months

@kiaran_ritchie sadly, for one successful story will be 1000 fails

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

4 years

there was also a bit more crazy option #madewithspine

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

2 years

Does anybody know any good technical animation courses/workshops? 🤔🤔🤔Maybe something related to Maya/Motion Builder/Python/Unreal Engine game animation pipeline. It's kind of hard to find anything at the advanced level, and the information is spread and not structured

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

2 months

@CardozoAnima3D normally you'd want to put it in a cutom node or mel expression or script job, but here for demonstration I just run the function 60 times per second 😁

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

19 days

@derfonoid I'm a simple guy, I sell what I created personally and nothing else

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

20 days

@danDmayor Unfortunately no, but theoretically it could be developed for blender as well, if it has animation layers and api to modify them

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

2 months

ok, problem solved 😅

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

11 months

Working on Maya autorig in a free time

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

3 months

I didn't wanna teaser things ahead of time, but since somebody is already working on that, here are some of my test results: 500 transform nodes, 1k frames, 6 layers - 4.5 seconds to evaluate. By default It takes Maya 12 munutes and 8 seconds to calculate that 😄

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

6 years

@channfree haha, thanks :) there is nothing special here, just regular mesh and bones, by the way I'll publish the work with running animals soon, and if there is anything interesting could share some rig details

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

8 years

Доклад по #Spine2d #Spine с недавнего #DevGAMM можно прочесть тут:

Анимация в Spine, советы и рекомендации, псевдо 3D эффект

Хочу поделиться своим опытом работы со Spine — программой для создания скелетной анимации, специально заточенной под игры. После просмотра официального гайда возникает много вопросов, поговорим про...

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

6 years

Idle #animation with different skins #madewithspine from Leo's Journey

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

7 months

A question for Maya TDs: how do you handle parallel calculations in python? As multiprocessing module is not supported in Maya's interpreter, so far I found a way - to use subprocess.Popen() with mayapy.exe. It works, but creates other problems, like passing the large data

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

5 months

@arainydancer You can also put these on a hot key to quickly switch between joints / curves / locators / geo selection and visibility. Speeds things up a lot during animation and rigging work

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

11 months

@KyleSygma Thank you! I'd very much like to share the project files, but unfortunately, it's not very simple as some assets potentially could have non-redistributing agreements, so the project needs to be carefully checked/prepared/reworked, and it will take time

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

4 years

@OverwatchEU @jdavisAnimation lol. First you have to born in a right county, then you or your parents have to possess enough money to take university classes. Everyone else could go screw themself. Bravo blizzard, no discrimination at all

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

1 month

This rises up serious questions. Game development timeline can be 5-7 years. And often updating software is not a good choice (new environments, custom stuff need to be rewritten, etc). So at some point, devs might be unable to download actual software they use in production 🤯

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

4 months

Apologies to my subs, this account should stay professional, but I feel like I must warn people about the interview with Putin. I've been living in Eastern Europe for my whole life, and guys, don't trust a single word he says, lying to people is his job. It is not journalism, lol

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

2 months

@bclark_cgchar Personally I use this script, it saved my life so many times I lost count

John Jasper Fielding

@jjasperfielding

2 years

#Maya lifehack: grab the mel script linked below and toss it in your C:\Users\<USER>\Documents\maya\scripts folder and never accidentally paste a bunch of junk into your scene again! psst- @AdskMaya you should put the modified code into the base install

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

6 months

a quick update, I did a test to compare speed with the same deformer written in C++ , so with a 500x500 torus results are: C++ time: 33 ms python time: 4938ms so the difference is 150 times roughly

Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

7 months

Recently found a series of cool tutorials about maya api, thoroughly describing how to create your own commands, nodes and even custom deformers. Perfect stuff for the weekend 😀 I'll attach the link below

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

19 days

@bclark_cgchar thank you. I got people messaging me in LinkedIn. politely asking if I have used any formulas from that github page, so full transparency mode

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

11 months

@KielFiggins Thank you! :) Well, it could be a driven key, but here I used a clamp + set range nodes, it makes it easy to set up / edit, as the required angle could vary a lot from pose to pose, from bone to bone

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

19 days

@bclark_cgchar no need to apologize, I indeed found that video and used it as an inspiration for the presentation, I liked the character stops animation example a lot. The point was about code or algorithms, I didn't use any of these, just wanted to clarify that

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

20 days

@a_karchik Thanks, It uses quaternion, so 3 axis, but the turn should be less than 180 degrees per one iteration

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

3 months

@Doom_Squid English is my second language and this got me confused, idk how to react 😂

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

4 months

@AlexineSkiba The only place Putin should be interviewed - The Hague tribunal, right before receiving a lifetime sentence

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

3 years

Australian Mist cat animation #madewithspine

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

6 months

@danlowlows I remember there was a super annoying bug in unreal engine, where camera animations started from frame 0 (even if animators used different start frames in their scenes), resulting in unique async between pair animation and camera 😅 I was scratching my head for days this

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

1 year

@Asante_19 @_shawnlee You can use isFalling from the character movement component, to the define falling transitions

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Slava Borovik

@BorovikMotion

1 month

@sylessae When certain clients scam freelancers on a regular basis for years, and Upwork support couldn’t care less and just ignores it

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