Baking Animation and Alembic practical applications

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Hi,

I am doing a research paper on Baking Animation and Alembic for future short CG productions (I want to insert it into our current pipeline structure). At this moment, I need to find out how commonly used these two things are and how well it is received by people in the industry. Do you use Animation Baking and/or Alembic?

The software we will be mainly using is Autodesk Maya 2015.

If you have any insight into Baking Animation and/or Alembic, please feel free to share.

My paper is purely academic and any sources used will be referenced.

Thank You!

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We bake animations for our CG production, but we still use legacy cache system maya offers. With tools for easy updating from animation to rendering scenes.

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Alembic was created by 2 of the most important studios in the world to tackle common problems found in today’s complex pipelines. It is aimed to be an industry standard, so I would dare to say that it is pretty common.

The following video has some interesting insights and numbers (It is kind of old) that might be useful for your research: