The meeting will be on 2024-02-22T17:00:00Z. It is open for everybody interested to join the video call (link below).
Present: Aurélien Charrier, Bassam Kurdali, Christoph Lendenfeld, Clément, David Eugene Rozier Jr., David W (Studio Galt Mocap), Eduardo Rubio, Ivan Cappiello, Luciano Muñoz, MohammadHossein Jamshidi, Nate Rupsis, Nathan Vegdahl, Nika Kutsniashvili, Sybren Stüvel
People present are referred to by first name for brevity. Others are referred to by full name.
Links
- Video Call. Note that there are no recordings of the meeting. This way everybody is free to say or show anything.
- A&R Module Meetings calendar for inclusion in your own calendar
- Previous and next meeting notes
- Issues & Pull Requests
- #animation-module chat channel
- Draft agenda for any upcoming meetings
Since the Last Meeting / Announcements
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New faces:
- David R.: American living in Ghana since 8 years.
- Aurél: French, dad of animation software Akeytsu.
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Animation 2025→ Project Baklava:- Announcement blog post: Animation 2025: Planning & Progress.
- New project breakdown
- Great feedback from Raymond Luc (Lead animator @ DillongooStudios) & colleagues (#118008), others can post there as well!
- AskNK video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsmceWkQ-aE
- CG Channel: Blender Foundation unveils Project Baklava | CG Channel
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Blender libraries & test files now use Git-LFS instead of Subversion (migration guide).
Landed
Names are from the Git log. This list is limited to functional improvements & bugfixes.
Blender
- 0c560fb7ef3: Fix #112395: Proportional editing indicator in Graph Editor and Dope Sheet (Christoph Lendenfeld) (2024-02-15)
- 10682abc56f: Fix: Proportional editing indicator in the Dope Sheet not respecting NLA offsets (Christoph Lendenfeld) (2024-02-16)
- a0fb1486be5: Fix #97973: Red underline in action editor is stale (Christoph Lendenfeld) (2024-02-20)
- 490c183bfd2: Fix #95204: Custom properties not shown on pose bone hidden by collection (Sybren A. Stüvel) (2024-02-20)
- 1c789199d5e: Anim: Bone properties panel, add missing ‘solo’ property (Sybren A. Stüvel) (2024-02-20)
- a102d3e4546: Fix #99635: Make last frame of motion path range inclusive (Christoph Lendenfeld) (2024-02-22)
Technical Documentation
- 5b0ccc0: Animation 2025 → Project Baklava (Sybren A. Stüvel) (2024-02-22)
- 166508f: Release Notes: Clarify feature in A&R notes (Christoph Lendenfeld) (2024-02-22)
- ae835b6: Animation & Rigging module: update video call URL (Sybren A. Stüvel) (2024-02-22)
User Manual
- cb8290f58: Document the concept of hidden data-blocks better. (Alexander Gavrilov) (2024-02-17)
- 161f0399a: Rigify: add a warning discouraging removal of meta-rigs. (Alexander Gavrilov) (2024-02-17)
Ongoing Work
- High Prio bugs: None!
- Christoph:
- Christoph’s weekly report
- Working on the bugtracker.
- Experimental work to make the Graph Editor faster.
- Nathan:
- Nathan’s weekly report
- Working with Sybren to prepare the Bakalava data model for PR.
- Sybren:
- Sybren’s weekly report
- Prepared Bakalava data model code for pullrequestification. Confident we can create those tomorrow.
- Suggested a bigger refactor for #118554: Refactor: Anim selectmode flags
- Animator meeting at Blender HQ:
- Discussed the breakdown of Project Baklava with Pablo Fournier.
- He was relieved to hear we’re not going to switch mid-production (like the 2.79 → 2.80 switchover that happened during production of Spring).
- This breakdown into (sub)phases has his approval.
Demo of Akeytsu by Aurél Charrier
Aurél, creator of animation software Akeytsu, joined the meeting and gave a demo of Akeytsu.
Some related videos (YouTube):
- Thomas Chaumel | February “SciFight” Submission
- StarWars Redemption - Trailer (Fan Made)
- Behind the scenes | Animation of StarWars Redemption Trailer
The demo was well received. Most notably, people were impressed with the simplicity of the software, and of the rigs it uses.
Next Meeting
The next meeting will be on Thursday 2024-02-29T17:00:00Z. Again it will be open for everybody who’s interested. The provisionary meeting agenda will be updated before the meeting.