Video teaser of a new Animation software pkg

StephenVyas

Developed by nukeygara, akeytsu is a brand new 3D program dedicated solely to
character animation and rigging, for the animation and video games industries.

Simplicity, velocity and ergonomics
With its artistic-oriented approach, akeytsu breaks up classic
standards of current broad-based solutions by providing a new
workflow built on simplicity, velocity and ergonomics.

Artistic tools used to be conceived by engineers, thus
demonstrating a level of complexity inconsistent with
artist users. This time is over.

"We will give power back to artists with software fitting to them."

They will easily find their bearings because it is designed specifically for their needs.
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Akeytsu is still in development and will be available in October 2014.

I love this! An more over, I love all the innovation that comes from competition!
Autodesk, hands-off this one please -.-

unit187

This looks nice. Especially liked that control ring and absence of rig controls over the character. I always hated those control elements blocking the view, whyle also being sometimes harder than needed to select.

StephenVyas

Likewise, the spinner control is amazingly simple. Not to mention the fcurve editor that's overlayed right on top of the viewport. That's just so damn smooth.
Also,The ability to click on the character mesh to access the control rig is intuitive

But instead of me listing off the features I like about it, here is a complete rundown of the features they offer::

http://www.nukeygara.com/akeytsu-features

pior

Will their software allow them to fix the hip bobbing from the first sequence shown ? hehe

Snark remarks aside, this looks freaking cool ! I always felt like there is something very odd about manipulating a 3d character rig on the 2d space of a computer screen, so maybe this can help alleviating that. Cool stuff !

MagicSugar

Don't see anything worth 500 euros ($680) per year rental.

lotet

Ive said this for a long time, we need a standalone animation program out there that does its job! nothing less, nothing more.

this looks like it.

thatanimator

^ you must be talking about motion builder a standalone animation program, try modeling in motion builder, I dare ya! or render.. or uvunwrap.. or skin..

lotet

thatanimator wrote: »

^ you must be talking about motion builder a standalone animation program, try modeling in motion builder, I dare ya! or render.. or uvunwrap.. or skin..

lol yes, but motion builder is the man when it comes to mocap, but I never really felt it did the job for pure keyframe animation. but you are right sir, I completely forgot about motionbuilder when I whrote that =P

MagicSugar

lotet wrote: »

Ive said this for a long time, we need a standalone animation program out there that does its job! nothing less, nothing more.

this looks like it.

I'd happily pay $700 for the last release of Softimage.

lotet

Yeah, Have to agree on that though, the pricing was a bit...well overkill.

slipsius

Im not entirely sure whats going on in that video... A lot of it looked like it was just composited. So the graph editor is just in the background? Thats kinda cool.

I dunno. Need to play around with it before i judge. It's one thing to list off features. It's a completely other thing for those features to work as intended, or even in a way that animators would like... 3ds Max is the prime example of that.

DireWolf

How would this work beyond posing? How about controlling shapes and all the subtleties?

StephenVyas

Update:: A 25 min overview demo of akeytsu 1.0.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74eSHxwoGdQ[/ame]

slipsius

Thanks for the share, Stephen! Still watching, but multiple timelines for the different body parts? Awesome!

claydough

$200 a year for every seat? Is there any mention of educational and/or indie licensing?

StephenVyas

Not at this time- $16-17/month ($200/year) is what they're planning to sell each seat at.

While they're still in an early development cycle... creating another version of the software in parallel with 'greyed out features', would only slow & likely inhibit the overall progress they're trying to achieve.
You may see an educational/indie licensing option down the road... once all the key foundation features are in.

StephenVyas

*Free Early Access Open Beta*

https://www.nukeygara.com/

kanga

This looks really good! The software looks easy to use and intuitive. I see you can import characters with mocap. Can you import mocap files to use on characters and can you use the stack system to animate over the mocap and mix it?

Props on some powerful looking soft.
Cheerio