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CG Catwalk animation.

http://vimeo.com/35639497

TOOLS:
ZBrush, Rhino, Marvelous Designer Maya
rendering with Octane Render
fbx bones animation file provided by marvelousdesigner.com

Thanks to tchoa for the pc2 plugin compiling for Maya.

Well done (y)
ciao beppe

Hooooly Moooly!! Nice!

Kernel? Frames per second? Rendertime?

A bit of SSS on the skin maybe?

Beautiful work Man!

I am curious about your workflow... MD seems a little quirky with avatar mods.
Did you use the stock avatar and tweak it in ZBrush?

Yes Druzic,
the workflow was kind of tricky especially because I used an old Maya (7) version.
I oversculpted the base avatar that came with the fbx (provided by marvelousdesigner.com).
Then I exported the avatar from Maya to Marvelus Designer via MDD. After the cloth simulation I tried to get the cloth back to Maya via MDD but I had problems. Maya Cache would have worked but not with this old Maya version. So I asked tchoa if he could compile the point cache 2 plugin by Jan Wolter for Maya 7. So I could use pc2 datat to get the baked cloth sim working in Maya but I had to tweak the animation curve a lot.
It took me a while to get this running but know I understand the workflow. If you work with a current Maya version the .mc file format causes less difficulties.

Cheers
Refracty

Looks really kool though !!

Thanks for the flow Refracty! You did a brilliant job finding a workaround...
Ever since seeing the catwalk demo that MD rendered in Octane I have been toying with avatar switching but only the native one seems reliable for me.

So... would you say that .fbx is essential for the smoothest performance?