LipService w/LBrush for Maya is finally released!

http://www.lbrush.com/

Overview
LipService is a powerful multi-resolution subdivision surface sculpting, rigging and animation system built into a friendly and intuitively organized Maya plugin.

LipService's sculpting tools are comparable to ZBrush** and Mudbox*. Its animation tools extend this multi-resoltion editing philosophy through to motion and rigging.

This is the first time we've ever seen this kind of tool. Utilizing tools like PSD, Corrective Sculpt, and Blendshapes at the subpoly level allows you to increase the amount of animated detail in your scene by orders of magnitude.

Even inhouse tools at the largest studios in the industry do not do this yet, which is why they've been eager to test it during beta and track its progress.

This is now a released commercial product, yay!

user group is here : http://joealterinc.zendesk.com


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BlendShapes+

BlendShapes have been around for decades, LipServices LBrush tool now has blendshapes, the idea is you attatch a slider to mix in pre-sculpted delta shapes that you've sculpted pre-rig. We've updated the concept a bit - thanks to stuff we've learned on our other animation modules, you no longer have to sculpt pre-rig - you can sculpt/animate them post-rig, or even one at a time - you can sculpt and animate them right ontop of each other.
You can even import your maya blendshapes/animation.

3D TEXTURE PAINT

LipServices LBrush tool now has a high quality texture painting tool. You can paint very highres textures inside maya directly in your viewport, hit render and the texture's already there (regardless of what render you're using). We do patterns, projectsions, clone, erase, blur smudge, move, rotate, falloff and more. We also have support for tiled texture workflows where you have lots and lots of 2k textures.

SCULPTING

Integral to all of it's animation and rigging features, is LipService's LBrush sculpting tool. LBrush is a state of the art multi-resolution subdivision surface sculpting tool. Similar to Pixologic's ZBrush and Autodesk's Mudbox, the sculpting tool has features like stencil brushes, texture brushes, smooth, push, pull, stretch, blendshape, etc running at speeds that blow artisan's doors off . You can also go back and fourth between LBrush and other Maya sculpting tools while you work with it and even import/export displacements between LBrush and ZBrush and Mudbox.

It's icing on the cake, but we also include real time shaders for shadows, screen space ambient occlusion which you can toggle on and off in our display panel.

RIGGING

One of the least satisfying things to deal with in character/creature animation these days is rigging. Studios like ILM, Weta, Sony Imageworks, and Dreamworks have all invested a great deal of effort (see links at bottom) in creating software to help riggers make models still look good in all poses, the reason for this is that the commercial tools have not filled this void in any kind of useful way.

Using PSD, you actually 'train' the engine to correct your geometry by stopping in the middle of a sequence and sculpting corrections, at the highres subdiv level. The engine will the recognize those joint configurations in the future and blend corrections in and out as they are approached. (fat guy by scott wells) 

CORRECTIVE SCULPT ANIMATION   

A common wish or people who've ever dealt with skinned characters or simulations like cloth, is that after the all the animation or simulation has been done, they wish they could just go in with their sculpting tools and 'fix' or 'embellish' things. Now they can.

Without disturbing the underlying animation with morphs and blends, you can layer sculpts on top of it with tangent space sculpting.

The correctional sculpt animation can also be used to embellish things like cartoony exaggerations. You can use this tool in conjunction with PSD and any other animation method. (arm sculpt and rig by Scott Wells)           

FACIAL ANIMATION (Phonemes)

LipService actually started out 15 years ago as a facial animation system. One of the key benefits is non-linear interpolations, there's actually a spline motion path for every vertex. This means that your facial animations will require far fewer targets and will actually hit them without coming to a stop. With blendshapes, you have to over sculpt several targets around where you are keyframing just to get it to come close. As our sculpting tools are fully integrated, there are tons of sculpting tools to help animators/modelers create fast shape libraries, and animate high quality face with unprecedented speed. You can also rig facial motion capture with the above pose space deformation tools.









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Inquire : joealterinc@gmail.com


LipService Node Locked License $300


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Additional Workstation Licenses (floating) $500
         

Additional Batch/Render Licenses (floating) $120