Ok, here we go with the release of this tool. If you have been following the previous post you probably have notice that I changed the name from Sculpt Inbetween Manager to Sculpt Inbetween Editor. Well, I have to be honest that I have some concerns of what you probably will deal with using this tools because might not be easy to understand right away but I can really say that I really try to make it the most intuitive powerful and reliable tool to sculpt not only correctives in the pose but also add inbetweens and make this target even more important.  I’m sure that people will find bugs, hopefully nothing too crazy but if that happens, send me the error message so I can try to fix it on my spare time. Save your work before and during the usage of this tool and keep in mind that I used a hack to let the UNDO working in sync with maya scene so don’t expect that it will work all the time. Well, I don’t want to explain all the usage here now but I can say that I will be posting more documentation in Images, text or videos soon.

Compatible:  Windows / Linux / MacOs

Maya2012 or above required

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To install:

– Place the script files into the maya’s user scripts folder

  Ex:  C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\maya\scripts (Windows)

– Place the icon files into the maya’s user icons folder

  Ex:  C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\maya\MAYAVERSION\prefs\icons (Windows)

-To automatically install the icon of the tool into the selected current shelf  go to the Maya’s bottom mel command line and type

  in this order pressing ENTER to each command below:

rehash

dslSie_install

Those are the videos that I made in Beta version witch was not release to the public.

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Here is my second short movie…  Starring Argus, my first cartoon character and the most important of my career. This little green guy is the one that gave me the opportunity to find my first job after I apply him to a character’s design contest in Brazil.  Inspired on the designs of Daniel Martinez Lara characters. It’s just an very simple idea but it was way more work to make it than my previous short, and way more fun as well!

This is my first cg-short movie. I remember that I’ve done the animation in a week pretty much full day working. It was my first experience in complete some personal work and was amazing the feeling of that. I’m seeking to get more of this feeling lately again!

What a great opportunity that I had working on this movie. I’m very proud with the result that our team at BlueSky  is bringing to the theaters this year. I was responsible to rig this guy on the thumbnail  and I can tell you that I enjoyed every single day making his rig. It was quite challenging to deliver the rig with all his crazy accessories, you will understand when you see it. It’s nothing new but here is the second awesome trailer of the movie.

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dslSIM is a tool that took me almost one year to develop. It’s a tool that gives the user the possibility to bake(PSD), mirror targets, edit their deltas and administrate inbetweens.  I first started to develop this tool with the motivation to not only have a missing ibetween editor in maya but also learn more programming and for the challenge to understand the PSD calculation. I have to be honest that I couldn’t complete this without the help of friends and a lot of research. Thanks to everyone who have helped me!!

The original blendShape node offers a great option to add ibetweens but unfortunately Maya doesn’t provide any UI to manager and that’s where I came with this idea to create “Sculpt Inbetween Manager”. It’s a big script containing  almost 5000 lines of code wrapping some Maya API modules for the calculation of the PSD and lots and lots of lines for the UI to manage the original blendShape node. I can say “sculpt” because you can sculpt on pose and use the built in PSD to revert the shape also “Inbetween manager” because it gives you the ability to move, copy, paste, delete, edit and mirror the correctives inbetweens. I Will be releasing soon after I finish some documentation that I will be making through videos. For now check this one to see the basics of what the tool can do and feel free to post some comments.

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This is the owner of the starship that I showed on the previous post.  His name is Tunny and I guess I have him for more or less 10 years. I designed him during some inspiration for no propurse but later some ideas showed up with him and the starship came toguether right after. Now I really want to go forward to complete those ideas but before this I will have to update his rig. Add some details and range of expressions so I can start to proceed looking for a shader, this is one goal to be completed sometime this year. I will be adding some other test that I have from him later maybe on this post

This is one of my personal projects that I have been working for a long time. I have lots of ideas for this ship since I created and I truly believe that that one day it will flying around. The design has been slowly modified during the years, it’s almost those diecast model that you build in years but once it’s done you get very proud with of it!

This is the intended size of the ship and one of my firsts test for tracking.

This is was my first feature film as a character animator. I know…  I’m pretty lucky I right? …but I thank to God to have opened this opportunity in my professional career. I have some friends that mentioned during the project that they have been working for many years in the industry and just at the District9 project they felt that they was doing something really exciting for the first time. Thanks to Steve Nichols who showed such a great leadership and as a person itself.  For some reason he really believed in my job and gave to me great shots, including the very last one of the movie. Thanks to everyone who worked in this amazing team witch I felt like a bunch of good friends, whatever you are I hope we can meet up again for some good talk like the old days in the bars of Vancouver! Here is my demo reel from 2010 as a character animator.