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rafanzovin

01-19-2012, 04:42 PM

We've been working on a new plug-in that provides image-based onion skinning tools in Maya. Here's a video:

http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=fO1MyGUDYlI

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7980954/ballOnionSkin.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7980954/captainOnionSkin.jpg

We're actively looking for beta testers right now--if you're interested please email me at raf@anzovin.com. We hope that we'll be able to release it late February or early March, for $29.

Unlike our other plug-ins, this one has been done entirely in Python, which means that we have one version that will work with any release of Maya post-2011 (possibly 2010 too but we haven't tested that yet).

Hope you like it!

--Raf Anzovin

Edit: We have enough testers now. Thanks!

Sil3

01-20-2012, 06:06 PM

This sure is usefull :applause:

A bit OT but are you considering investing some time into Softimage tools or only Maya users will have all the cool toys?

rafanzovin

01-20-2012, 06:52 PM

We have talked about doing tools for other packages (XSI and Max, primarily) but most of our tools are designed around the way Maya does scene graphs and wouldn't really be portable to other packages without a ground-up rewrite. Since we do the tools partly to use in-house and we're a Maya shop that's not easy for us to do.

--Raf

Larry_g1s

01-21-2012, 04:48 AM

Looks pretty cool.

IkerCLoN

01-22-2012, 10:00 PM

Looks quite useful and indeed it is fast! And even cheap! I wish I was an animator to be able to ake the most out of it :)

hanskloss

01-22-2012, 10:15 PM

I don't animate much at the moment but this is really really cool. I wonder how I could use this for animating cars. Great job guys!!:buttrock::applause:

rafanzovin

01-23-2012, 02:20 PM

Thanks to everyone who wrote in looking to beta test! We have plenty of testers now.

--Raf

claudiosalas

01-26-2012, 06:36 PM

Looks amazing Raf! I've been waiting for a tool like this. Looking forward to trying it out :)

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