Family & Animation

Auto-Rigging Workflow with AccuRig by Senior AAA Character artist – Roumen Filipov

26 September, 2022

Hello, my name is Roumen Filipov and for those who don’t know me, I’m a 3D versifier / Senior 3D Weft versifier at Chief Rebel, specializing in creating stylized notation for AAA and mobile games.

https://www.artstation.com/roumenfilipov

Creating a 3D weft can be both time and energy-consuming, yet there’s arguably nothing largest for presenting all the superstitious polygons than making them move and squint alive. This is exactly where AccuRIG, the newest auto-rigging tool ripened by Reallusion, comes in to save the day.

This self-ruling software allows the versifier to import any humanoid 3D weft and in a matter of minutes, create a soul rig with a really upper quality of deformation. They can then export the rigged model as standard formats like FBX or plane upload it to the ActorCore website and play with a huge variety of mocap animations for their project, all hands uniform with famous platforms to exhibit real-time models like Sketchfab and Marmoset Toolbag.

In this article, I’ll take one of my 3D notation through the unshortened rigging process in AccuRig and hopefully unshut the doors for many other artists to modernize their workflow with this superstitious new tool.

IMPORTING INTO ACCURIG

Importing a model inside AccuRig is as simple as dragging the FBX file straight into the window. It supports notation well-balanced of multiple models, including props and accessories, as well as a variety of tighten poses and proportions, symmetrical or not. The software will unchangingly summate a working skeleton for the model plane if the structure is not initially the most accurate, which leads to one of the weightier features of this tool: fine-tuning unorthodoxy placement by hand.

In this example, the weft has a fairly good topology and is in an A Pose. Shortly without importing and making sure it’s aligned to the center, the rig is created and then each bone’s position is displayed on top of the model by semi-transparent circles which you can tweak the size and opacity. It’s possible to stilt these with your mouse to tweak the placement and vivify symmetry to move both sides at the same time. The tool plane has placement assistance options to speed up the process and a very handy reference box on the top-right corner of the screen for which unorthodoxy it’s stuff selected and where it should be correctly placed on the body. Once you’re happy with the overall soul skeleton, the next step is placing the finger wreck of the hand for uneaten precision. This step in particular is a huge resurgence over other misogynist tools out there and avoids the usual “soft” and weird limp fingers.

Once happy with the unorthodoxy placement, all that remains is to click on the Finalize Weft sawed-off and wait for the numbering to be washed-up in order to see the weft finally moving on the screen. From this point on, the versifier can trammels if all deformations are looking good by loading a few animations misogynist on the top right corner of the screen. One of the nice features at this stage is that it’s possible to select each unorthodoxy of the rig and retread its offset if the volatility has some clipping, or just to enhance the pose overall.

After pursuit these simple steps, the model is pretty much washed-up and ready to be exported to be used in any 3D application.

In the example case, the weft was sent directly to ActorCore with just a click of a sawed-off and it was ready to retarget any from a huge variety of mocap animations. From that point on, it was very fast and easy to select a walk volatility and export it to be used in Sketchfab with some proper lighting and materials

All that can be said well-nigh AccuRig is that it’s definitely a game changer and definitely a big upgrade from similar tools like Mixamo. The easy and fast workflow combined with a high-quality result is surely a must for weft artists wanting to take their models to the next level.