One common problem with animating characters is when you instantly cut from one pose to another for characters with physics on hair or cloth. Physics engines often interpret the change of position as high velocity movement, causing more extreme hair and cloth bounces. The short animation in the tweet below is cool, but clearly shows … More Animation Hair and Cloth Physics Bounces
I came across “The Upload: The Rise of the Creator Economy” as a podcast, discovering later it’s the audio track of a YouTube series, backed by YouTube. Episode 1 repeated a number of points that I have been hearing from multiple sources about the “creator economy”. Here is my summary of episode 1: Lilly Singh … More Content Creation from Lilly Singh (podcast episode summary)
There was an Animation Rigging incompatibility with Sequences in Unity which has been fixed in version 1.2.0 of Animation Rigging. (It results in lots of exceptions in the Console and frequently fails to work correctly.) Unity 2022.1 has not been officially released yet (still in beta), so this is the versions I am using at … More Unity Sequences and Animation Rigging Versions (April 2022 update)
Analytics such as number of views, number of new viewers, length on site, etc. can give great insights into how your content is being consumed. Are you being found? Are you retaining your audience after they find you? These can help you plan your content strategy and grow your audience. But there is a catch. … More Analytics and Mental Health for Content Creators
As a content creator, how can you efficiently turn your creativity into something you can share with others to enjoy? I ask this question of myself as I don’t think I am there yet, but I found episode 17.8 of the Writing Excuses podcast , The Alchemy of Creativity an interesting step on this journey. … More Find your own best practices for efficient content creation
I am using Unity with VRoid Studio characters to create a series of cartoon episodes. Unity supports “real time” and “baked” lighting. So which to use when creating animated videos? Baked lighting is where you tell Unity “the sun is not going to move, so you can pre-compute the sun and shadows on objects that … More Lighting for Cartoon Animation in Unity
I subscribed to @MuRo_CG‘s “PlayAnimaker” on Pixiv. He is doing some cool work with using VR headsets for Anime style output. You can use your Oculus VR headset and controllers to pose and animate characters. One of the features supported recently is the ability to export BVH files. These are animation clips in a format … More BVH to Humanoid Animation Clips for Unity
I have been exploring creating an animated comic using Google web stories, a HTML format designed for vertically oriented video and images. One of the issues with video however is the storage requirements and network bandwidth. Video clips require more storage than static images. For example, a video clip of a few seconds long is … More Hosting your video rich web stories
I just came across Pixar’s Universal Scene Description language. It’s a file format they use for all of their movies. It was interesting to see a number of tools support USD. Quick searches found: A set of Pixar USD tools they have open sourced A Unity importer for USD files Blender import/export support Maya support … More Pixar’s Universal Scene Description
I am have been working on a lightly animated comic (pages, with speech bubbles, but where there is a short video clip on each page instead of a static drawing). This is a low budget hobby project with a development team of 1. There has been a lot to learn, but fun. One of the … More Using Deepmotion.com to create custom walk cycles
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