I am in the process of upgrading my Unity project from the Built in Render Pipeline to the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP). HDRP does some effects differently, one of which is the Depth of Field effect which is useful for background (or foreground) blurring. (I have blogged on effects like this previously, for the … More HDRP Camera Depth of Field Effects (blur)
The Unity Sequences package support has a number of features to make it easier to create movies, game cutscenes, or in my case short animated video clips for including in my motion webcomic. When I first started using Sequences, I planned to use Scene Activation tracks, but over time I found a number of limitations … More Why I Stopped using Scene Activation in Unity
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
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)
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
Ever wanted to quickly capture ARKit facial blend shapes for a OpenUSD project? There a number of free tools around, but I wanted to share one I have been working on as part of a larger project. The nice thing is there are zero software installs – it runs in a web browser! Does it … More ARKit Blend Shape Capture for OpenUSD
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 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
I have been exploring the new Sequences package beta for Unity for animation and one of the things it makes heavy use of was Prefab Variants. I had heard of Prefab Variants, but never really quite “got” how they were different from Prefabs. So I did some hunting around and thought I would summarize my … More Prefabs vs Prefab Variants in Unity
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