The Motion Capture Pipeline of The Last of Us

LAIKA 10th Anniversary

Tips and Tricks for Multiple Space Switch in Maya - By Manoanim

Maya Tutorial - Tips Tricks Multiple Space Switch Using SDK from Manoanim on Vimeo.

Remember to Relax! Realizing Relaxed Behaviors for AI in AAA Games

Animation tips from Twitter and the GDC Tricks of the Trade talk

Rigging Dojo Animation Tips from Twitter and GDC Tricks of the Trade from Rigging Dojo on Vimeo.

Below is the link for the Trick of the Trade talk that happened on the last GDC (2016):

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1023479/Animation-Bootcamp-Tricks-of-the

 Enjoy! Tons of info in this post :)

Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Early Access Announcement Trailer

The game I'm currently working on :)

Cuphead Platforming Gameplay Reveal

Daydream Labs: Animator

Playing with the Graph Editor in VR must be interesting, to say the least ;)

Fusion4D: Real-time Performance Capture of Challenging Scenes

BAM by Howie Shia

BAM, Howie Shia, National Film Board of Canada

Allright Rig For Unreal Engine 4

This is the future of animation for video games.

The Focktards - Episode #02

KLAUS Walking WIP - Simply amazing!

KLAUS Walking WIP from Pau Cantos Simón on Vimeo.

Action Exercise by arthurnal

If you're not following this guy in Vimeo, you should now.


Action Exercise from arthurnal on Vimeo.

Center of mass script by Richard Lico

Center of mass script from Richard Lico on Vimeo.

Fight 2D development - by Nicolas Leger

Fight 2D-2014 from Neeko on Vimeo.

NewView tool for 3ds max - by Boomer Labs

NewView Preview 1 from Boomer Labs on Vimeo.

Change rotation curve colors in Maya

When I was working with mocap data at Ubisoft, one useful thing that I found when I was using Motionbuilder was that it was possible to change the colors of the curves in the F-Curve editor. You could change any curve color, either it was a custom parameter or the X rotation axis.

The most important benefit for doing this is that by changing the color of the most important parameters, they automatically become more recognizable.

Since working at Larian Studios here in Quebec I've been working exclusively in Maya, and I missed having this option. Not really because I have tons of custom attributes, but when I see the Graph Editor, it's hard for me to quickly recognize which curves are Translation and which Rotation. For example, in the image below, you can't really tell which is which.

Lucky me, there is a way to change the colors in Maya.

The only thing you have to do is (in the Graph Editor) select the attribute you want to change and then click on Edit and select "Set Curve Colors..."

This option will open a dialog with to panes or sides: One contains the attribute you selected and the other one the new color. Click on the color picker and select the color that you want for that attribute.

If you want to modify the color of additional attributes, just select them in the Graph Editor and click on the "Add" button in the Curve Colors dialog window.

Once you have change the colors, just close the dialog. In my case, after changing all rotation attributes, the result looks like this:

As you can see, now I know which are my rotation curves just by looking at the Graph Editor.

Some remarks:

• These changes are part of your Maya environment now. This means that, in my case, the rotation curves will always show this colors, no matter the object selected or which scene I'm working on.
• In the case of the rotation colors, I recommend changing to something similar than the precious red green and blue colors. This because the rotation manipulator will not change the colors to match this new setup, so in order to keep some link between the curves and the manipulator, is better to things similar.

I hope this helps.

Cheers!

P.D.- The rig shown in the images is the Joe Rig. You can find it here.

Links, enlaces et liens

http://www.creativebloq.com/3d/download-free-versatile-3d-characters-11618979
Free rigs!!

http://www.catsuka.com/news/2016-02-07/dofus-livre-1-julith-en-salles-depuis-cette-semaine
I love the style of this film! The link is in french though, but you can still watch the videos.

http://www.animatedspirit.com/weight/
A nice post about adding weight to 2D animation.


http://venturebeat.com/2016/03/16/epic-games-shows-amazing-real-time-motion-capture-demo-for-ninja-theorys-hellblade/
I find this tech more helpful to both the director and the mocap actor because they can see the character realtime. For animators, they still have to clean up the data, so no change there.

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tech/toonz-software-used-studio-ghibli-futurama-made-free-open-source-138111.html
It's out! Download it here!

http://www.dualshockers.com/2016/03/15/ubisoft-introduces-motion-matching-the-first-step-to-next-gen-animation/
I've seen a similar demo last year when I was working at Ubisoft.

Overwatch - Alive Animated Short | PS4

Below - Death's Door

This game looks crazy good! The mood and the music (by Jim Guthrie) fit so much with the overall theme of the game.

BELOW -- DEATH'S DOOR from CAPY on Vimeo.

Unity GDC demo - Adam - Part I

The lighting looks excellent in this demo! Looking forward for part two. :)

PC Gamer Weekender Divinity: Original Sin 2

A peek of what our next game here at Larian will look like. It's a very ambitious game, but if we pull it off (and I'm sure we will), we'll change the RPG landscape.

And by the way, Swen didn't memorize the presentation. He really knows this much about the mechanics (and the story, and the features, etc) of the game.

Skull Chaser - Behind the Scenes

What I find impressive of this "Behind the Scenes" is that it was all done in Blender!

GP -"Skull Chaser" Fan art, character by Jake Parker, based on a Anthony Holden anim) by Daniel M. Lara (Pepeland) from psl on Vimeo.

Walk Cycles by Tomas Jech

Walk Cycles from Tomas Jech on Vimeo.

LMPicker - Controller Selection tool for Maya

This tool just changed the way I see Marking Menus! Really cool idea!

50 Game Camera Mistakes

Cuts & Transitions 101

Rigging and Tools Demo Reel by Mateusz Poplawski

Mateusz Poplawski - 2015 Rigging & Tools Reel from Mateusz Poplawski on Vimeo.

Ray rig from CGTarian now available for free!

Head to the link below, fill out the form and start animating! :)

http://www.cgtarian.com/character-ray/download-character-ray.html

Links, enlaces et liens

https://www.toolchefs.com/?page_id=225
Some really good tools for Maya.

http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/creating-the-illusion-of-speed/
Cool read with some tips about motion blur and how to create the illusion of speed.


http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1021791/Animation-Bootcamp-The-Animation-Process
The animation process behind Ori and the Blind Forest video game.

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/making-of-uncharted-4-a-thiefs-end/
A brief behind the scenes look at Uncharted 4 video game.

http://ow.ly/Wbjrd
DreamWorks pipeline explained by Skipper

http://www.twitch.tv/finespline/profile
Ben Sanders Twitch channel. He has A TON of hours of content about animation. Worth to check it out.

https://www.patreon.com/morganloomis?ty=p
Morgan Loomis has created a Patreon page to support him create tools!  
 

Hellblade Development Diary 20: Movement & Control

ed by Taha Neyestani

This is absolutely fantastic!

ed from Taha Neyestani on Vimeo.

Epic explains animation tech behind Paragon game

These two videos are long but totally worth it. There is a lot of stuff that could be very useful (and applicable) to other systems.

Mark of the Ninja animations by Bruce Chang

Mark of the Ninja, stealth kills medium goon from Bruce Chang on Vimeo.

"Trouble Shooter"pitch by Eric Goldberg

'Trouble Shooter' Storyboard Pitch from Living Lines Library on Vimeo.

My Life In Monsters: Meet the Animator Behind Star Wars and Jurassic Park

Watch THR's Full, Uncensored Director Roundtable With Quentin Tarantino,...

[GDC 2015] Animation of The Order: 1886