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Houdini 8.1 appears in 3D for animators.(Side Effects Software Inc. )(Brief article)

Computer Graphics World

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Side Effects Software has released Houdini 8.1, featuring an animator-friendly Auto Rig, Muscle System, Character Picker, and Pose Library, as well as other enhancements to the Rigid Body and Wire dynamic solvers. The new version also supports the importation of Collada files, an open digital asset exchange schema for interactive 3D applications.

A new Biped Auto Rig tools lets artists quickly position their character's joints and generate production-ready rigs at the touch of a button. It creates both an animation rig with built-in proxy geometry for blocking and a separate capture rig for deforming geometry. These rigs are created as Houdini Digital ...

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