{"id":185,"date":"2023-07-18T13:53:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T13:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armintajik.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2024-10-07T08:06:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T08:06:35","slug":"adjustment-blending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armintajik.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/18\/adjustment-blending\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjustment Blending"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Maya recreation of Dan Lowe&#8217;s adjustment blending technique in Motion Builder<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This tool fine-tunes the blending of additive animation layers in Maya. I recreated Dan Lowe&#8217;s adjustment blending technique in Maya&#8217;s Python API, a tool that was originally written for Motion Builder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AdjustmentBlending Maya\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/846165928?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"269\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Animate Button - Mocap Automation Techniques at Ubisoft Montreal (GDC 2016)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eeWBlMJHR14?start=522&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The challenge was understanding how the tool functions in Motion Builder and then recreating it in Maya. I enjoyed troubleshooting and resolving various bugs along the way. You can find the script <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ArminTajik\/ArtTools\/blob\/main\/Maya_adjustment_blending.py\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>here<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/armintajik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-3-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armintajik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-3-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/armintajik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-3-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/armintajik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-3-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/armintajik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-3-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/armintajik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-3.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Before adjustment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"191\" src=\"https:\/\/armintajik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-4-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armintajik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-4-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/armintajik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-4-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/armintajik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-4-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/armintajik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-4-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/armintajik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-4.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">After Adjustment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During the development process, I utilized the Studio Library plugin for loading and saving poses on the new animation layer, which inspired me to create a pose library<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armintajik.com\/scriptingprojects\/maya-pose-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u> tool<\/u><\/a> for Maya.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Maya recreation of Dan Lowe&#8217;s adjustment blending technique in Motion Builder This tool fine-tunes the blending of additive animation layers in Maya. I recreated Dan Lowe&#8217;s adjustment blending technique in Maya&#8217;s Python API, a tool that was originally written for Motion Builder. The challenge was understanding how the tool functions in Motion Builder and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armintajik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armintajik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armintajik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armintajik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armintajik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/armintajik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/armintajik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armintajik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armintajik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armintajik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armintajik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}