ADSK Ships Pose Space Deformer, Ignores Clavicle
Oh the clavicle.. you’re like the bastard redheaded stepchild.. is this guy an animator or what?
Anyway, sixteen years after the publication of Pose Space Deformation: A Unified Approach to Shape Interpolation and Skeleton-Driven Deformation, and fourteen years after Michael Comet released the poseDeformer plugin for Maya, which became the industry standard: Autodesk has now implemented the feature into the software.
In what seems like my early 20’s being acted out before my eyes, ‘Combination Sculpting’, the way of associating a fixer shape when other shapes are in a certain configuration (pioneered by Bay Raitt on Gollum in 2002), is also not a feature that will ship in Maya.
Riggers rejoice! We have voted this up on all feedback forums for years, and ADSK created the tool with direct involvement from the rigging community, great that it can finally see daylight. Now, all you Extension2 users grab it and work out the remaining kinks before everyone gets it in Maya 2017!
And if you’re upgrading to EXT2 today, don’t forget, FBX anim export/bake is fixed!
I laughed all the way through that demo. How can you so blatantly ignore a bone that’s right there and made for the exact purpose?
Comment by Ben Cloward — 2016/04/19 @ 3:55 PM
That was a funny demonstration!
Comment by Ehsan — 2016/06/15 @ 8:26 PM