https://hwanimation.tech/tags/blender/Recent content in Blender on HW Animation TechHugoen-SESun, 22 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://hwanimation.tech/projects/unannounced-noid/Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://hwanimation.tech/projects/unannounced-noid/<ul> <li>Company: <strong>Noid</strong></li> <li>When: <strong>September 2023 to December 2024</strong></li> <li>Genres: <strong>Online, 3D, multiplayer, adventure</strong>.</li> <li>Engine: <strong>Unity</strong></li> <li>Platform: <strong>Mobile</strong></li> </ul> <h2 id="overview">Overview</h2> <p>As the only technical animator on small team, I was responsible for the animation pipeline and tools, character rigging (<strong>Blender</strong> and <strong>Motionbuilder</strong>), character setup and hair-sim in <strong>Unity</strong>, as well as supporting the animation team in their work.</p> <h2 id="project-video">Project Video</h2> <div style="position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;"> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share; fullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/MGscyDGkcQQ?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border:0;" title="Noid Art &amp; Animation tools demo"></iframe> </div> <h3 id="video-breakdown">Video Breakdown</h3> <h4 id="pipeline-installer">Pipeline installer</h4> <ul> <li>Python CLI app, using <a href="https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/">Click</a> and <a href="https://pyinstaller.org/en/stable/">PyInstaller</a></li> <li>Uses <a href="https://docs.astral.sh/uv/">uv</a> to manage tools and Python setup</li> <li>Sets up Artifactory auth, uv, Python and all pipeline tools</li> <li>Creates desktop shortcuts for all tools (Motionbuilder 2024, Blender 3.6 and Blender 4.2)</li> </ul> <h4 id="blender-and-motionbuilder-animation-exporter">Blender and Motionbuilder Animation exporter</h4> <ul> <li>Qt (PySide) and <a href="https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/">Pydantic</a></li> <li>Shared UI across Blender and Motionbuilder</li> <li>Export one or multiple takes/actions to multiple locations</li> <li>Store exporter settings in current scene</li> </ul> <h4 id="blender-asset-browser-tools">Blender asset browser tools</h4> <ul> <li>Add project asset libraries to Blender on launch, and sync them with <a href="https://subversion.apache.org/">SVN</a></li> <li>Export assets from current file to project asset libraries, using tags</li> </ul> <h4 id="blender-weight-transfer-tool">Blender weight-transfer tool</h4> <ul> <li>Transfer skin-weights from one source mesh to one or several target meshes</li> <li>Transfer skin-weights to all LOD steps</li> </ul> <h4 id="blender-debugging-and-testing">Blender debugging and testing</h4> <ul> <li>Start debug server in Blender and connect with VS Code</li> <li>Run tests or launch Blender directly from VS Code</li> <li>Run tests with Blender from terminal</li> <li>Skip UI tests if Blender is running in background mode</li> </ul> <hr>