News and updates from the CRC
Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist Summary In the Previous Native Dancer Blog, Motion Updates I highlighted steps that were taken to get the Jingle Character in Motion. Since then, the Jingle Dancer has been made to be dancing, using the Motion Data collected using an Xsens Motion Capture suit. In this post I will […]
Just pushed updates to the RawKee python code that enables the export of the following X3D node types from Maya: Transform, Group, Shape, Appearance, Material, PhysicalMaterial, ImageTexture, PixelTexture, MovieTexture, MultiTexture (limited support), TextureTransform, MultiTextureTransform, IndexedFaceSet, Coordinate, Normal, TextureCoordinate, and MultiTextureCoordinate. Click on the image to the left to see export results in detail. How much […]
The UND Laboratory for Digital Realism in Engineering and the Applied Metaverse (UND DREAM Lab) is developing RawKee – Python Edition (PE), an exporter plugin written in the Python programming language for use with Autodesk Maya 2025. RawKee PE is a tool for exporting 3D content from Maya in the form of the Web3D Consortium’s […]
Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist Summary For the past few weeks, the Native Dancer Project has been making progress toward having a more functional Jingle Dress dancing character. In the past blog, modifications to the dress, for functionality purposes were highlighted. In this posting, I will be focusing on other motion aspects of the […]
Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist Summary For the past couple of months, the Native Dancer Project has been focusing on having a functional Jingle Dress Dancer character. These steps have involved troubleshooting how to attach jingles to the dress as well as how they will move in a game setting. Jingle Dress Dancer Updates […]
Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist Summary Throughout September, the Native Dancer team has been making progress toward project goals in various areas. Some general progress has been made on correcting flaws in the current Fancy Shawl Dancer Animation. Additionally, with the completion of the Vertex school courses, I am revisiting the Jingle Dancer to […]
Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist Summary In August, the Native Dancer team was busy making progress toward having a completed fancy shawl dancer. The goal was to have her complete enough to show to an audience as a demo. This meant for us, having her culturally appropriate with her hair and regalia complete. The […]
Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist Summary The Native Dancer project’s Fancy Shawl Dancer character has made progress toward being a complete, in motion character this month. Her whole regalia set, has been re-topologized to work more smoothly in the Unreal game engine, resulting in the regalia simulating more smoothly when she is dancing or […]
Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist Summary This past month, the Native Dancer Project has been inching toward having a new fully textured fancy shawl dancing model. With this new character, her looks have been sculpted from scratch to create her overall look. Through the Vertex school trainings, I am learning the steps to have […]
Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist Summary Over the past year, Native Dancer has made steady progress in its asset development and toward workforce development goals. Over the processes of creating the first set of characters, I have been able to learn and understand the proper pipelines and programs used to develop a fully dressed […]