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Introducing fStretch for Maya + Free Facial Rig
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mfiorilli 2 posts06 Jun 2010I am proud to announce the release of my new rigging plug-in called fStretch. The plug-in works with Maya and let one create astonishing stretch and squash setups very easily. All the resulted deformations are then sculptable and fast. The plug-in can also be used for creating hyper-realistic facial rigs. Forget about having a hundred blendshapes, with fStretch you only need a contraction and an extension shape. The algorithm is fast and can be used on heavy meshes without major slowdown. The plug-in will run real-time on a reasonable mesh. With fStretch, you can now setup awesome facial rigs easier than never before! A setup that can take you days to make will now be created much faster and have better deformations. For demonstration purpose, a free facial rig was made and is available for free.
Try and see !
Learn more at http://www.cgaddict.com
Thanks !
youtube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vn7gDLWe48
vimeo : http://vimeo.com/11253339
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08 Jun 2010Looks cool, I'll be taking a closer look at this.
What would you say is the lowest poly count you'd want to use this on?
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mfiorilli 2 posts08 Jun 2010JayG: The lowest poly count really depend on what you want to do, if you just want to do deformations inside maya without any maps you need to have enough poly to create your desired deformations such as wrinkles and stuff. If you want to use maps too then you'll be able to create wrinkles on areas where the geometry wouldn't allow. But I'd say that it's always the best to have a good base that has enough poly and then use the maps to refine for very tiny details on top.
The maps generated by the deformations could be used to drive any other maps. They can drive normal maps. But beware that you won't be able to get any real-time results using maps with the plug-in. They have to be baked after the animation is done and only then they will be used in a shading graph to blend through your maps of any kind ( bump / displacement / normals ).
I hope this answers your questions and I invite you to download the demo to see if you like it.
Thank you for your interest.
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