Richard Lico's Animation Workflow : Siggraph 2018

Been following Richard Lico's work for a little while now, and I really love his approach to rigging, pipeline, and animation.. 

Unreal Engine : Virtual Production

Unreal Engine ( EPIC) has created a new site and podcast to discuss all the news and latest with podcasts, articles , and tutorials . 

Go check out the latest podCast with Mike Seymore on "What is Virtual Production?" 

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/programs/virtual-production/what-is-virtual-production

Node Calculator add-on

Mischa Koibe has released his second release of the node calculator. Which basically is like an expression converter from script to nodes. Nodal networks vs expresssions can not only run in parallel ,but also tend to play a lot nicer with references, and with in-evitable name changes of controls and geo etc, ( which expressions tend not to ) 

 I really like his way of building on previous code and making modules that cna be re-used in the nodeCalculator.. I have tried writing a converter before and it does get pretty hectic quick, dealing with order of operations especially, so I can only imagine the amount of time it took to build this all out. 
 I haven't tried it out yet, but I definitely like the idea. 

NodeCalculator Script: github.com/mischakolbe/node_calculator

NodeCalculator Documentation: node-calculator.readthedocs.io



NodeCalculator - Introduction from Mischa Kolbe on Vimeo.


This is a great use case of using the nodeCalculator to set up soft IK


NodeCalculator - Example: Soft Approach from Mischa Kolbe on Vimeo.