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Red9 ProPack: WristLocks – Fast Hand Interaction

September 15, 2021

Red9 ProPack and Red9 PuppetRig now work together to bring you our animation friendly “WristLock” system. This is a new way for animators to interactive with, and manipulate objects in your characters hands. No more messing with locators, separate constraints, tedious tracking and blending, it’s all done inside the rig with the UI support to allow for really fast switching and binding.

In this demo we go through just how fast it can be to extract and bind a characters wrists up to a gun, manipulate it then bounce that animation between the gun and back to the wrists, setting up a MoCap scene with a full double handed weapon in a matter of minutes.

Best of all this new system is fully supported by all of the other tools within ProPack, including our parent space switching systems, so bouncing these wrist lock ctrls around the rig is an absolute breeze.

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Red9 ProPack: Preview Camera support

May 13, 2021

Yet more development for our Red9 ProPack workflows. This time a new preview camera system which has been added to help animators focus on their work more easily. This is a dynamic system, the camera auto focuses on your character and allows you to switch views via the RMB Dag menus, bound to the rig. Most importantly this doesn’t rely on you running our PuppetRig, it will run on any character as long as it’s wired to the basic system through the RigManager (and that takes 3 minutes max).

What’s really powerful is that this is integrated into our Exporter and Batch systems, allowing you to generate review playblasts using this camera setup, on mass. Imagine being able to generate previews of an entire days moCap session and actually have all of that data in camera shot!

Red9 ProPack: Animation Re-Targeter (Pro_to_BND)

October 8, 2019

The Animation Re-Targeter (Pro_to_BND ) is a huge part of the Red9 ProPack pipelines and workflows. Designed over the last 5 years to offer clients the ability to remap, on mass, any animation library to a fresh rig and bounce that data over to various formats.

Major update in the capability of the binder systems within Red9 ProPack!

If you’re working with us all our Red9 PuppetRigs come with the base BND binder file, if not you can still create these manually within the toolsets, although many of the complex options are only available directly to the Red9 PuppetRig.

We go through the various options within the remapper itself, both HIK based and pure skeleton based. These allow you to control how the fbx data is applied to the binder skeleton. If your FBXs don’t have a HIK definition don’t worry, there’s a tool for that also.

We also go through the various output formats, r9Anim, Maya File or custom Playblast. The Playblaster also exposes custom camera tracking, allowing mass drops of FBX animations to be quickly converted to movies, with tracked cameras for easy review, the camera focusing in on the renderMesh wires within the MetaRig..

We also showcase some of the new extreme mapping added to the systems, including the new Spine re-fit solver, giving far more consistent data, perfect if you’re moving data between MoBu and Maya consistently. This is the absolute backbone of a modern pipeline, giving you the ability to simply reuse animation data from any source in your project.

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