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1. Re: What tools are animators using?

   

   Reply by thatanimator · Oct 2011 · Home› General Discussion

   I've mentioned Motionbuilder in earlier threads, cool to see some people doing the same. It's not used only for mocap, at least that's not the only strong point it has. The layer functions are nice (I personally never use them for handkey animation though, baselayer oldschool G all the way), the way you work with Takes in…

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   Reply by MiAlx · Feb 2012 · Home› General Discussion

   oh yea, had that same problem and overall humanIK has some very weird bugs from time to time, like HumanIK ignoring keys: When moving/rotating the controllers everything is alright, but then after starting to key, humanIK starts "ignoring" some of the keys. Deleting all the keys and then undoing brought the keys back and…

3. Re: What tools are animators using?

   

   Reply by Mark Dygert · Feb 2012 · Home› General Discussion

   We use max at work. Our pipeline lets animators use CAT, Biped, Puppetshop or custom skeleton rigs. For a while we used MotionBuilder and we all loved the added tools it offered but it was too much of a pain jumping in and out of max. A friend of mine who uses Maya was talking about HumanIK and after looking into it,…

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   Reply by Autocon · Oct 2011 · Home› General Discussion

   We use Maya here at Naughty Dog. At Bungie even though almost everyone used Max, the animation guys used Maya for animation.

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   Reply by greevar · Oct 2011 · Home› General Discussion

   Well, I wouldn't say that. There's actually a lot to know about the physics of animation. Weight, balance, anticipation, follow-through, squash and stretch, and ease-in/out are all things you need to know to be an animator. Unless you're assuming it's a given that he know them?

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   Reply by m4dcow · Oct 2011 · Home› General Discussion

   I'm pretty sure with all questions like, the answer is it varies from studio to studio. I've heard that most animators generally consider Maya to be a better package for animating than Max, but I'm not much of an animator and can't really rightfully validate that sentiment. It may have something to do with the prevalence…

7. What tools are animators using?

   

   Topic by stonedove · Oct 2011 · Home› General Discussion

   I'm looking around and I am not sure if many companies use the CAT system or only bones. Does anyone have any knowledge on this?

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   Reply by MiAlx · Oct 2011 · Home› General Discussion

   We also use maya for animation & rigging :D

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   Reply by Rick Stirling · Oct 2011 · Home› General Discussion

   Motionbuilder is becoming very popular, it's a killer app for animation.

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    Reply by Bruno Afonseca · Oct 2011 · Home› General Discussion

    Every animator gig I got, it was Max + Character Studio. @achillesian: mixamo? it's the banner that's always up there for me