Uncharted 4 rigging tools

Blond

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJmHKzUy0m0[/ame]

Oh my ! Oh my! Crazy sweet stuff right there.:D

The Tech artists who who worked on this have done some fabulous work..

Blond

oh and a grass tech and water tech demo:

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDtL3PpNI-g[/ame]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQZw7XxCLmM[/ame]

onionhead_o

Cool stuff.

Matt Fagan

Very cool! Thanks for sharing these.

d1ver

The rigging stuff is brilliant

DireWolf

Holy hell. Can a lone artist do something like those Uncharted tech demo tho? Won't you need teams of crazy programmers?

d1ver

DireWolf a lone person can do a whole game these days

Autocon

DireWolf wrote: »

Holy hell. Can a lone artist do something like those Uncharted tech demo tho? Won't you need teams of crazy programmers?

A lone artist DID do those tech demos, the grass one and such. His name is Andrew Maximov (d1ver) amazingly talented guy

Principe Daemoniorum

Wow that is impressive.
However wouldn't it be a massive resource hog to have all of those bones instead of a vertex animation?

Aabel

Bones can be much lighter, unless you do something ridiculous like give each vert it's own bone.

The kinds of skinning techniques shown in the video have been an active area of academic research for over a decade now. There is a lot of published work out there for anyone who would like to develop similar tools.

haiddasalami

Hopefully you get some talks at the next GDC Andrew Awesome stuff!

Blond

Err, I don't get it, he is modeler,texturer AND a professional rigging artist?

I never thought it was possible to master all these at this level. He must've a lot behind him.

merwynl

Really cool stuff. Thanks for the share!

Aabel

Blond wrote: »

Err, I don't get it, he is modeler,texturer AND a professional rigging artist?

I never thought it was possible to master all these at this level. He must've a lot behind him.

The hard part of the technology behind these tools is done and published by people with advanced degrees in computer science and related fields. As long as you have the patience and dedication to invest in reading and understanding the research papers you can make tools like this.

Also the researchers I have ever contacted about their work have been more than happy to assist with implementation, even if the paper goes back years. They won't do the work for you, but they will answer questions.

Visceral

I just cant wrap my head around how thoose explosions are made in that Grass demo.....jesus

d1ver

Anthony is too kind as always! (and a brilliant artist to boot)


Purely execution-wise joints might be a bit more expensive because it's another layer between the vert and the transformation. But! A lot of performance these days boils down to how fast you can shuffle data around. And with next gen it's a lot more data. Having lets say 900 blend shapes for a 50 000 vert face mesh means 45 million positions to be stored and that's not even mentioning the normals. So if you can animate the same face with a 100 bones that's unimaginably less data.

thanks, haiddasalami! I'd love to if I can

beefaroni

Blond wrote: »

Err, I don't get it, he is modeler,texturer AND a professional rigging artist?

I never thought it was possible to master all these at this level. He must've a lot behind him.

Ya he's a fucking wizard. Definitely an exception to the rule. I'm guessing he put the time in to learn all of that and works efficiently.

And yea, like the posted said above, knowing how to code or having a CS degree seems to help a lot. There are a few modellers that have their own scripts they whip up to solve some problem they have in their pipeline. Just being able to do that alone is pretty awesome, let alone the stuff that Andrew does.

Jeremy Mitchell

These clips are bits from this series of ND talks from Gnomon. Check em out here!

http://livestream.com/gnomon/naughty-dog

Thanks to Andrew (and any others on the panels if you're reading this!) Really inspiring stuff!