[Bf-funboard] Rigging system

[Roland Hess]

I looked at CAT and a couple of other animation systems a while ago (ie 
pre-Elephants Dream) for research for my animation proposal, many of 
which items are now happily a part of Blender. I'll take a new look at 
those sorts of things as we move forward. While I'm personally happy 
animating with the current tool set, rigging could certainly use a 
boost. There are some cool things coming down the pipeline in the new 
animation system.

If someone wanted to, say, go watch demos and read docs of these "higher 
level" animation tool sets and compile it into some kind of report, it 
would be really helpful to developers such as myself and Joshua 
(Aligorith) for future directions.

While, as you say, this sort of thing isn't necessarily in line with the 
main 2.5 goals, I wouldn't say it's out of line with the overall focus 
of Blender, which is to provide a superior animation tool for artists.

Roland
harkyman
> CAT-type tools I suspect are not in line with the focus of blender
> (especially since it'd take so much time/effort to implement and maintain).
>  Still, I could be wrong :)
>
> Joe
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