I have been using Unity for a while to create Cartoon Animations, and have recently been exploring NVIDIA Omniverse to see how it has been progressing. From what I can see, while USD was originally developed by Pixar for animated movie production, and NVIDIA have been investing in AI technology such as mapping audio files … More Unity vs Omniverse for Cartoon Animation
I am exploring the ability to import VRoid Studio created characters into NVIDIA Omniverse for animation and rendering. NVIDIA Omniverse is based on the USD file format originally created by Pixar to help manage their animated movies, so it seemed a natural fit. This blog is not a final solution but is rather an early … More VRoid Studio, meet NVIDIA Omniverse
Today’s NVIDIA Omniverse livestream featured what, to me, was the most compelling vision of the potential of their platform I have seen yet. Meta placed a big bet on the metaverse being the future of social (Ready Player One anyone?), but it has not taken off (yet). VR is cool, but remains a niche market, … More Is USD + 3D Browser the next HTML + Web Browser?
In a movie (or in my case, an animated cartoon), dialogue can make or break a scene. For animation, the visual aspects may take a lot more time to create, but poor dialogue or poor voice acting can have just as much impact even though they take less effort. So I always find posts or … More Writing Great Dialogue
I want to create NDVIDIA Omniverse projects with a backup of all my files in the cloud so I don’t lose everything if my desktop dies. How best to do it? The files can be large. In this blog I explore a few options: Note that a different approach is to use a more robust … More NVIDIA Omniverse and Backing Project Files to the Cloud
The “Omniverse Basics, Create for Production Part 1: USD and Layers” video describes how things work technically, but I found the “why” hard to understand at times. (Looking at the comments left on the video, I don’t think I am alone!) Here is my understanding from the video (combined with other reading), expanded into the … More NVIDIA Omniverse Shot Scene Standards
There are a wide range of approaches to achieving 3D computer animation, each with its own pros and cons. In this blog I summarize many of the common approaches, and then talk about how you may combine the different approaches into a real project. As a hobbyist, I personally to focus on free solutions that … More 3D Animation Technical Styles
I love the progress Meta are making (https://dulucas.github.io/agrol/) on animating the lower body from just a VR headset and hand controllers. Personally I would love to use this as a poor man’s option for mocap (Motion Capture), to create custom animation clips for characters. There are a number of camera based mocap solutions around these … More AGRoL, Avatars GRow Legs at Meta
From the NVIDIA website, “NVIDIA Omniverse™ is a computing platform that enables individuals and teams to develop Universal Scene Description-based 3D workflows and applications.” It is based on USD, the file format originally developed by Pixar for their animation projects. For my purposes, it is similar to Unreal Engine and Unity for rendering 3D scenes and … More NVIDIA Omniverse Unity Connector
Just as generative AI has been stirring things up with 2D images, people are also looking hard at 3D models too. One great little video I stumbled across lists a number of platforms, some of which I had not heard of before. First, the video: Some of the sites mentioned: Some of the platforms tackle … More AI 3D Model Creation
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