2021-12-23 Animation & Rigging Module Meeting

The meeting will be open for everybody interested to join on Google Meet (link below).

People present are referred to by first name for brevity. Others are referred to by full name.

Present: Bassam Kurdali, Brad Clark, Christoph Lendenfeld, Kevin Burke, Orestis Konstantinidis, Paolo Acampora, Sybren Stüvel

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Since the Last Meeting / Announcements

Planning for 2022

“Animation 2020” as a large Blender Institute project will be postponed further, because of Covid/Omicron + the need for workshops to get things done at the professional level Blender Institute wants.

Module plans still continue:

  • Christoph: graph editor manipulation operators
  • Kevin: Graph editor improvements
  • Demeter: Mesh-based gizmos
  • Asked for many times by Blender Animation Studio: Bone Picker UI?
  • Asked for many times in the community: Improving parenting workflow & hidden matrices

Short-term goals

Patch Review & Decision Time

Other topics

  • Kevin wants to help making more icons for graph editor menus etc. Will make a design task.
  • Brad has looked into UI/UX issues with the NLA editor. He, Sybren, and maybe a few others will soon have a meeting together to come up with nice solutions.

Random bug report

Bassam: auto-keying doesn’t work on camera transforms when the camera is locked to the viewport. He’ll write it down in the tracker.

Next Meeting

The next meeting will be on Thursday 6 January, 18:00 CET/Amsterdam time. Again it will be open for everybody who’s interested. The provisionary meeting agenda will be linked in the #animation-module channel before the meeting.

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