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[mantragora]

And while we are in RealTime topic, amazing facial realtime motion capture system.



As a bonus, if you are bored, one of the best zombie movies ever.

[Sifis]

And while we're in skinning and deformations...

Real-Time Skin Deformation with Contact Modeling
https://vimeo.com/65966757

[old school]

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And while we're in skinning and deformations...

What's the difference between an implicit surface and a metaball?
You can easily construct rigs in Houdini using muscles which use metaballs.
We knew for a very long time that using muscles over standard skin weighting resulted in much better volume preservation hence our toon character delivered on the shelf uses meatball muscles.

You can paint influence weights and also add sliding. Self-interpenetrations should be handled as well.


Just in case you didn't know.

[phrenzy84]

This is what i was thinking while i was watching that video. But am i right in thinking that you can chose either one or the other solution to rig characters (out-of-the-box)? You cant use both?

[old school]

Out of the box, you are right. You either choose capture with bones or capture with muscles/meatballs.

There are at least three different ways to rig characters with muscles. You can rig up a system that uses standard capture weighting but then apply muscle deformers on top.

Right now you have to run two SOPs: deform SOP with one of the two muscle deformer SOPs though...