[Bf-funboard] Re: IK Animanium

[car]

DUde NEat! The link to AOI does not work though.

Could Blender ever work with a company to get a better animation system ?
I only seems odd that other mayjor developers have not come to at least think
about helping out Blender. Or at least Ton is not telling anyone. So Ton, has any
major/minor company offered to help yet ? Or do they just not care ? 

Ok it still would be neat. 

>Wandering off topic, I thought I'd point out the Animanium IK system 
>(http://www.animanium.com/, although the Japanese site at 
>http://www.sega.co.jp/animanium/ is much more useful).
>
>It uses a 'pin and drag' method, where you can dynamically lock and unlock 
>joints in the IK chain. It was apparently enough to impress people at 
>SIGGRAPH, because they picked up a Technological Innovation Special Award for 
>it. It looks quite cool, but apparently there are still a lot of bugs in it 
>and the release has been delayed for a number of months. 
>
>However, I've seen it successfully implemented in Art of Illusion 
>(http://aoi.sf.net\) using traditional CCD with a reasonable response time. It 
>looks like it would be a nifty thing to have in Blender.
>
>Anyhoo, monkeyboi's proposals look great, and I love the work that's been done 
>on 2.3.