Artell

Auto-Rig Pro's daddy.
artist, rigger, musician, programmer, researcher...
ex-animator at @illumination
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[Artell @ArtellBlender]

Auto-Rig Pro 3.78 full update log 🚀:
https://t.co/zFusydrMxd

[Artell @ArtellBlender]

@TechPriestOrion True! What works for someone isn't necessarily what works for others

[Artell @ArtellBlender]

Ok. I'm stopping Auto-Rig Pro dev then 🥲

[moragear @moragearsolid]

slowly realizing rigify is way better than autorigpro after making arp rigs for every single character I've used until now

[Artell @ArtellBlender]

@Bear_Festival @LowTierLawy3r Good point!

[Artell @ArtellBlender]

@aomay77 Thanks for showing your appreciation! I was joking, not going to stop yet 😇

[Artell @ArtellBlender]

@damienpons_ Merci Damien! Pas de soucis je plaisantais 😇

[Artell @ArtellBlender]

@rogerioperdiz @carlosedubarret Very true... I enjoy working on it, as a user, for my own projects, and for other users of course... so not going to stop anytime soon.
Manuel Bastioni deserves a medal for his work, giving all his work for free.

[Artell @ArtellBlender]

@guillecareaga Many thanks! It means a lot coming from you.

[Artell @ArtellBlender]

@LowTierLawy3r Yes I'd like to know too. But every tools have strengths and weaknesses, it can be subjective.

[Artell @ArtellBlender]

@carlosedubarret thank you Carlos :)
No worries, I was just feeling loopy today

[Artell @ArtellBlender]

- Smart: Facial: The eyeball shape is now detected automatically, removed the Sphere/Hemisphere setting
- Smart: Facial: Refined the eyeball centroid estimation, better results with various ball shapes
Smart: Facial: Improved "eyebrow_full" position and size
Smart: Facial: Soft and Masters eyebrows are now enabled by default

[Artell @ArtellBlender]

[Auto-Rig Pro update log] 🦴
- Update to the latest ARP version to benefit from @jessylte 's facial skinning improvements!
Still experimental, bu this improves A LOT automatic facial skinning on most models (requires the Adaptive Auto Skinning addon)

And more below ⬇️

[Artell @ArtellBlender]

[Auto-Rig Pro update log] 🦴
- Export: FBX: Support for animated custom properties (located on custom bones only)
- Rig: Leg: The Smart IK Pole is now enabled by default!

And as always, fixes along the way...

[Artell @ArtellBlender]

Huge. Neat facial auto-skinning out of the box!

[Jessy Leite @jessylte]

Face auto skinning is coming to Adaptive Auto Skinning.

Here are 3 characters skinned in one click.

If you don't know AAS yet: it's a Blender addon that skins your characters in seconds.

Coming soon (Auto-Rig Pro rigs for now)👇 #b3d

[Jessy Leite @jessylte]

Face auto skinning is coming to Adaptive Auto Skinning.

Here are 3 characters skinned in one click.

If you don't know AAS yet: it's a Blender addon that skins your characters in seconds.

Coming soon (Auto-Rig Pro rigs for now)👇 #b3d

[Artell @ArtellBlender]

Poll time! 📢✅
Do you use the Smart IK Pole and does it work well for you?
I'm thinking of enabling it by default in Auto-Rig Pro.
https://t.co/QqL8H5gGSk

[Artell @ArtellBlender]

@daitomodachi6 This is only if you export the rig and animations separately. You can check it when exporting animations only, so that only the necessary data (skeleton animations and shape keys) gets exported

[Artell @ArtellBlender]

[Auto-Rig Pro update log] 🦴
- Export: New settings to export only meshes with shape keys (Verts Only, Face, Face and Weights). Useful when exporting animations only, to reduce the file size, skipping materials and other unnecessary data.

[Artell @ArtellBlender]

[Auto-Rig Pro update log] 🚀
- Export: FBX: Improved accuracy of exported bones transforms, fixing long-standing bind pose issues with importers such as Unreal and Maya
- Rig: Facial: Removing all eyelids is now supported (amount set to zero)
- Rig: Facial: The "Eye Spec" bone is now togglable in Limb Options
- Rig: Facial: The Nose Root and Nose Tip bones are now togglable in Limb Options
- Skin: Voxelized: Vertices from the voxel mesh that have no weights are now removed, fixing weight issues on the final mesh