Tomas Slancik

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Advertising / Motion Graphics

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New York, United States
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I am currently employed at Method Studios

Recent Forum Posts

Blender's ACTION CONSTRAINT with 'Skeleton Blend' in APEX | March 17, 2026, 1:16 p.m.

here is a take on fixing the scene and the graph manually
I also added the FK controls on top of blendshaped skeleton where animator can apply further offsets

for reference some of the things that were updated:
- skeleton blendshapes are no longer packed as their points need to be accessible by APEX
- changed the Rigpose nodes to just apply rotations to joints, since offsetting the joints creates wrong deformation due to resulting orient misalignment of parent joints

in graph:
- added dict entry for base skeleton and fixed weight key from blend# to weight#
- fixed weight values to increase and decrease for specific regions
- added ability to have manual FK controls on top of blendshaped pose

What's the official way to parse geo/bgeo in a 3rd party app March 10, 2026, 5:42 p.m.

.geo is just json and .bgeo is binary json, here is some info
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/hdk/_h_d_k__g_a__using.html#HDK_GA_FileFormat [www.sidefx.com]

Baking off a camera March 4, 2026, 2:49 p.m.

you can use Bake Animation ROP for that