Comments on: Flex Them Muscles

By: smokebox46and2

smokebox46and2 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:10:01 +0000

thanks and encouragement!

i actually posted this idea recently on the feature request forum not realizing that you have this in development…

By: Handydan

Handydan — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:59:11 +0000

carlinhos, me too

By: carlinhos

carlinhos — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:06:22 +0000

@sea

Thank you for the information! I hope, we will see the muscle system soon in
Blender, if not in 2.50 then at least in 2.51 ;)

By: sea

sea — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:31:45 +0000

Its kindasorta available in other packages.

There's been commercial plugins available for maya and max, but only recently has it become built-in for maya and houdini. Houdini's being a v1 release isn't quite ready for production, and maya bought the most well known commercial one (comet cMuscle) and added it for gold support members a few months ago, probably to be officially rolled into the next maya unlimited release mid-year.

So no, blender isn't the first, but going strictly by what you can get off-the-shelf as a built-in, it'll be second. And if its a fast, production useable solution it'll definitely be one of the first to achieve that!

By: carlinhos

carlinhos — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:08:34 +0000

Sounds incredible! Are there other 3d-packages already having this feature or will Blender be the first one? I have never seen it before.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:09:11 +0000

I get Blackboes point, but thats been discussed enough.

On to the muscle stuff though, this is going to be great! I was at an Animation conference in Sydney AUS recently and they had a guy from WETA show off their muscle system that was used for Gollum and has since been beefed up for each new film – currently for "The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep ". It's at a crazy level now where you can see all the sinews moving under the translucent skin which ripples over the top.

Obviously, it's a lot of hard work ahead, but I'm prepared to show respect and wait patiently. Even though I want it yesterday. Hehe. All the best to handydan!!

By: gauravanim

gauravanim — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:02:31 +0000

Awesome Crazy Wonderful….Go Blender GO GO !!!

Cant wait..But i have to wait ;)

By: MeneerDePeer

MeneerDePeer — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:05:14 +0000

@Amir Taaki: congratulations, you've just proven Blackboe's point.
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Looking forward to see the muscle stuff in action!

By: epat

epat — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:38:18 +0000

Blasted browser crashed … too late! :/

Ah well… :P
~epat. :)

By: Ataru

Ataru — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:33:54 +0000

Blackboe – you might want to calm down, but yeah, I get what you're saying. Some people are used to Maya, Autodesk, or whatever, and we kind of look at them like they're nuts… we gotta quit that. But Blender does have great features, and better yet it's being developed like crazy.