Animation and Rigging Vision Series has been posted to Youtube.

[will.telford]

Hello all,

I'm Will Telford the Product Owner for Rigging and USD in Maya. For even more updates you can follow me on twitter

https://twitter.com/wtelford 

We gave a talk on Rigging at this years virtual vision series.

There are two interviews I held with Daniel Lindsey of Walt Disney Imagineering talking Disneyland's "Star Wars:Galaxies Edge" and Tokyo Disneyland's "Beauty and the Beast." as well as
Wasim Kkan of Naughty Dog talking The Last of US Part 2

It also has an animation section with our animation Product Owner Mark Tanner speaking with ILM and Build a Rocket Boy.

Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/GZBBL_gCLSc

[mcw0]

Hi Will,

During the presentation, I posted a question whether Maya was working on implementing it's own version of SSD (Smooth Skinning Decomposition).  But my question never appeared.  Maybe you can address it here?

[will.telford]

Thanks for your question. Maya does have a skinning decomposition built in with the bake deformer tool. There are also a few open source implementations available.

[mcw0]

Wasn't aware of this in the bake deformer tool.  I'll look into it.  But I was specifically wondering if there might be a tool like Naughty Dog's remapping deformations to joints?