Submitted by BinyaminDelta t3_ys53c5 in singularity
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blueSGL t1_ivyo75p wrote
looks like an autorigger (automatically create the joint chains and attach them to the model), animation retargeter (take existing animations from one joint chain topology and apply to another joint chain topology) and motion interpolation system (seamlessly blend between canned animations so going from a walk to a run does not look janky)
and they seem to be rolling things out per object class, currently they do wheeled vehicles and quadrupedal animals.
BinyaminDelta OP t1_ivyq0r5 wrote
Yes
"How should this (thing) likely move? Apply movement parameters."
blueSGL t1_ivyuyb1 wrote
That's an oversimplification of what they are doing. If it was direct vertex manipulation for animating the mesh without any intervening rig structure (like how alembics work) your description would be be more on the money.
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blueSGL t1_iw3nn09 wrote
an autorigger like mGear or Advanced Skeleton + an afternoon of weight painting using ngSkinTools will get you comparable rigs to what's been shown.
The trickiest thing to rig is the face (either joint or blendshape based) and or get a full sim muscle setup going. Neither of these are shown.
For something low poly, stylized and simple like the fox that is shown it's no time at all with current tooling.
expelten t1_iw0qw9r wrote
Is there any project for 2D animations? I'd be happy with something doing just very basic animations of characters portraits for example like in Stellaris.
Akimbo333 t1_ivxd4dd wrote
How exactly does this work?