![]() ![]() A lot of our older animations have been added to the pose library to be repurposed later.” But one of the coolest parts was getting to make good use of Poser’s pose library. There were also a lot of scenes where we just didn’t feeling like suiting up and started going to town on it. For a lot of the scenes we did start with mocap, but there was so much cleanup, retiming and editing it might as well be handkeyed. They have engineered some really clever methods, with minimal material nodes and combined some tricks from one of Poser’s old timers for the trails and particle sprites.”īut what about the animation? Surely that’s all motion capture? Shane Newville says: “Maybe 1/3rd of it is mocap. All the sword trails, the explosions, the fabric and hair movement, even the final line work of the characters is being handled in PP 2012. They are modeling their characters in an OBJ friendly tool, then rigging, animating, and rendering inside Poser. “RWBY, it turns out, uses very little outside Poser to generate the final video. Steve Cooper (who apparently had a detailed outline of the workflow) says: The question soon arises, how much of RWBY is actually Poser? According to Steve “Think” Cooper and Shane Newville (artist working on RWBY) in this thread at RDNA, quite a bit. ![]() Watching an episode of RWBY is an interesting experience for Poser users, many of which would never have dreamed such a production was possible. So, for all it’s stock-standard plot devices and clichéd characters, there is something about this cute, fluffy show that will appeal to many, if given half a chance. Also as a 3D enthusiast and user of Poser and DAZ Studio there is a certain amount of technical curiosity. The show has a decidedly cutesy air about it, something I tend to steer clear of in my own content consumption (anime or otherwise), but I found the show growing on me and it’s comic style and characters endearing. I admit that when I first watched the initial episodes I was fairly indifferent. Undoubtedly this will lead through to self sacrifice and world saving heroics thrust upon a band of warriors still in the grasp of puberty. The world these characters inhabit is a dangers post mass monster invasion world where only a handful of powerful cities offer a relatively secure life. RWBY has an obvious anime, and JRPG inspiration to its visual style, characters and plot.The cast is composed primarily of female warrior students embarking on a new stage of their life, Studying at the prestigious warrior school, Beacon Academy. This makes RWBY many more times popular than Red Vs Blue Season 11. Whatever the reason, the first RWBY episode has already accumulated 62K Facebook likes recorded on Rooster Teeth’s website and 1.3 million views on YouTube since upload on 25 July (2013). His deviantART profile has over 30000 watchers and his Hailoid (Halo fan animation) and Dead Fantasy videos have grossed millions of views at YouTube and Game. Perhaps bringing more than talent, Oum bought fans. Oum obviously bought a lot to Rooster Teeth, because in 2012 he was given the chance to give his own concept life, as creator and lead animator. This hilarious fight scene clearly shows that by season 8 (2010) RVB had moved out of the Halo game engine. Nailing down exactly when RT moved RVB to Poser is tricky if you aren’t a constant fan (which I’m not), but it would likely be at least since Monty Oum joined the production company in 2010, bringing his serious animation and Poser skills with him. While Red VS Blue began its life as a short collection of Machinima Halo parodies made with the Halo game engines, it has since moved to using Smith Micro’s Poser. Enter Rooster Teeth ProductionsĪt least one addition that can be made to the list here is the extensive use Rooster Teeth Productions (RT) has made of Poser over a number of years for their popular Red VS Blue (RVB) series, and now the hugely popular RWBY (Ruby) anime styled series. The Poser page on Wikipedia offers us some insight into some uses, though they are largely unreferenced and don’t make for hugely inspiring reading if you’re looking for solid professional and creative examples. Most of the apparent professional usage of these programs is well hidden, so we are usually left to take the word of testimonials with a slice of scepticism. It is often part of the marketing pitch that we hear programs like Poser and DAZ Studio are used in professional applications. ![]()
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