It’s always like that. When animation is so-so it’s subjective. When a rig is not perfect, even if it’s just skin breaking up at a random vertex and just needs to be reloaded, the TD should be burned alive. Yet when the rig is perfect(in eyes of the end user) the rig is never awesome, animation is awesome.
With time I managed to teach my self not to care and only ask for one thing, just let me do my job because I just love it even if it’s just making stuff people will never use.
I have also met a similar sentiments. For a selection tool I now simply have a small popup box that is context sensitive (do you have a hand selected or a foot) and show actions for that context: select fingers from selected hand, select limb from hand, add keyframe to limb etc. It works really well and people actually use it as it’s so fast to navigate the rig with.
But yeah, animators, weird folks… Even if you have the best rig you can offer in max, they found some video on some maya or soft rig, that does a thing your rig doesn’t and now they can’t produce high quality work anymore…
-Johan
That sounds really cool. One of the ‘features’ I’m thinking of proposing to Dejan is adding context sensitive controls to the GUI like spinner for swivel on IK limbs or bendy limb joystick etc…etc… Lots of ideas really but we just want to keep going one step at a time and there some other stuff we are trying to develop right now.
Hahhahahaah!
Is there some great world wide telepathic connection between TDs or do we really have these identical experiences?
Sorry to derail the thread guys, but I am glad I am not alone. After all great minds think alike (:
I guess only we could appreciate a well done system and see the elegance in that. Then let’s make our own kick ass 3d app (:
I’m all for it under one condition. If the autokey/set key equivalent is on, the app will at a random point in time pop out a technical question. If you answer correctly, you can continue working until another one pops out. Else, it will save the file and shut down. If you open the file that has been saved like this, it will ask the question again.
TDs will have no problem. However …
Good idea (:
Thanks! It’s so good I might implement the prank in Max. I’m seriously considering it, maybe next time I get frustrated with half informed talk about gimbal lock, hierarchy etc… evil laugh :bounce:
Suckimators.
I’m starting to think i dug up something evil when i initiated this thread:)
I love you guys
We should work on a 3d app like Light said specially for animators that when you save a file it deletes all animation keys Sorry couldn’t resist.