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Well I've been here in New Orleans for 3 days and there is no sleep to be had. Siggraph in NO is such a love/hate thing. Too much work and too much play means no time for resting :) This actually marks my 10th Sig with Alias/Autodesk... wow that is hard to believe!
So anyway... Below is a movie that I recorded for a Siggraph demo this week. It's just a subset of a larger workflow demo that we're showing at the booth. This piece covers Animation Layers and shows how they can be used to modify existing animation in a nondestructive way. Animation Layers were introduced in Maya2009 (based on MotionBuilder technology.) So they've been around for a year or so, but I find that a lot of people are still learning about the feature. It's quite powerful and flexible, and they make experimentation easier and iteration times much faster.
OK... I just re-read that and this is starting to sound a little too much like marketing babble so I'll shut up now and let you watch the movie :)
Note: I also discuss the "Smart Bake" option, which we also inherited from MotionBuilder, for cleanly merging layers together.
You can check out the live demos from SIggraph here... |
