Cascadeur News: Hands AutoPosing, VFX Software Bundle, Pipeline Tutorials
HANDS AUTOPOSING: Promising first results
Machine learning is a bit like a wonder bag: you never know exactly what you will get. Sometimes you're disappointed, but sometimes you're downright amazed about the good result. Our company founder Eugene recently had such a positive experience with Cascadeur's planned AutoPosing expansion for fingers and hands.
Starting with only 50 real human hand poses, we extrapolated ca. 50.000 natural looking poses and fed them into a neural network. The first visible test results of this finger AutoPosing function are still not perfect, but already so promising that we decided to officially introduce the function in Cascadeur as early as Q1-2023.
In the following video on Eugene's Twitter channel, you can get a first impression of the elegant aesthetics of this new tool, which will soon be available exclusively to Cascadeur Pro users.
Watch Cascadeur's Hands-AutoPosing in Action! ( )
SOCIAL MEDIA: New team member Max
We welcome our new colleague Max, but you may call him Rupreeht! Max is currently in charge of creating social media content for Cascadeur. If you've visited our TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@cascadeur_3d) or YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@Cascadeur) in the last few days, you probably know his voice from our "Let's Cascadeur" mini-tutorial series.
Having been a CG artist for over a decade and having worked on commercials and indie movie productions, he aims to bring his expertise to make YouTube Shorts, TikToks and Tutorials both useful and fun. And, by the way, he is new to Twitch, streaming games and CG!
VFX BUNDLE: Cascadeur and OctaneRender Studio+
https://home.otoy.com/render/octane-render/purchase/
We're happy to announce a new collaboration with OTOY: Introduced just in time for Black Friday 2022, the VFX software collection "OctaneRender Studio+ 2023" now also includes the Pro version of our character animation software Cascadeur! The price currently offered in the OTOY store for the "Ultimate Black Friday Bundle" is unbeatable at $15.99 per month (with annual billing).
So if you've been waiting for a Black Friday special offer for Cascadeur Pro, don't hesitate to grab it now, as OTOY’s Back Friday deal is still available on their website, but only for a short time. There won't be another opportunity to get Cascadeur Pro in a high-quality software bundle so cheaply anytime soon.
CASCADEUR MOBILE: What's next?
In response to our call in the August newsletter, several hundred animators applied to take part in the closed beta test (CBT) of Cascadeur Mobile for iOS. We randomly selected and invited more than 250 of them to put the app’s first version through its paces. Over the last few weeks, we were busy evaluating the extensive and mostly positive feedback, and preparing for the next stage. So today we are happy to announce the additional features we plan to include next:
- An improved timeline, which offers a more desktop-like user experience
- Camera controls
- Trajectories
- Video references
As soon as the new beta version is nearing completion, we intend to start another beta test call. This will give you another chance to try Cascadeur Mobile before the official release!
BLOG POST: The Last Premiere
https://cascadeur.com/blog/general/indie-spotlight-the-last-premiere
In the fifth episode of our Indie Spotlight series, the German development team CrystalMesh introduces you to their third-person action adventure game. Still in development, “The Last Premiere” has already successfully snagged one of the German government's highly competitive computer game funding slots.
We particularly liked the Cascadeur-created character animations of The Last Premiere. So we invited Linus, one of the founders of CrystalMesh, to present his exciting project in our blog - and also to explain why he chose Cascadeur over Blender and MoCap for his action-packed animations.
LAST CHANCE: Get a lifetime 25% discount on Cascadeur Pro!
All users who upgrade to Cascadeur Pro before the official release in December will still receive a 25% discount on the license price - for the entire duration of their subscription! The discount is valid forever - as long as you don't cancel the subscription yourself!
PIPELINE TUTORIALS: Blender and UE4
Game developers regularly ask us for step-by-step instructions on how to transfer animations from Cascadeur to other animation tools and engines, such as UE or Blender.
Our team has made these questions the subject of two new video tutorials.
In this very detailed half-hour course, we explain how to easily interchange animation between Cascadeur and the still very popular UE4 by using the UE retargeting system.
Tutorial: Cascadeur to UE4 - Custom Character Retargeting (
Our second animation pipeline tutorial shows how to properly import a character from Blender into Cascadeur and vice-versa export an animation from Cascadeur into Blender. Thanks to Cascadeur's convenient auto-rigging, the necessary know-how can be acquired in less than 3 minutes!
Tutorial: How to import from Blender to Cascadeur and backward (
