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Video 3, from Flagship, shows off a really cool asset management tool. It seems to be very full featured and automates things very well. It certainly isn't something needed for every studio, but for a studio that relied almost wholly on outsourced art, I am sure it saved loads of time and mistakes.
Video 7 is from Ubisoft, about Assassin's Creed. It is really an excellent presentation. He covers a couple excellent tips and ideas:
Using Skinwrap to create LoD's
Bone-vert aligner
Briefly describing his 'smart symmetry' script
Auto-render and composite
MaxAppLink, a clone of zAppLink for zBrush
The presenter, Francois Levesque, also touted the very wise manta of setting up hand-made data and scenes by hand and merging... [Read More]
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