We are already working on a Masterclass for the Chicken and the Luchador :)

Can’t wait for that @@EstherTrilsch

@@EstherTrilschWill be looking out for that!

ah you mean the handle? in the xform mode you currently do not have the rotation ball behavior you are describing but if you simply hit r in the viewport you switch to the pure rotate handle and then you get it as well:) we do have initial nodes for pose space deformation for the APEX graph but no convenience tools built around it

it depends a bit on what you want to do: You can theoretically have wrangles in an apex graph directly but i would not recommend going for that. you will easily loose performance if you are not watching out. Especially for simple numerical operations the apex nodes are the better way of working. The only case where it might make sense is if you go apply the wrangle to a geometry with a high point count and you apply it to the points directly, so something like a vex deformer. When it comes to manipulating the rig graph geometry i would rather go for python or apex graphs like the shown component scripts.

@@EstherTrilsch is that scene that you showed, where the python scripts are being used, available somewhere to take a look at? I'm starting to really get into it lately and would like to learn more about this.

Sidefx definately is very slow in releasing videos for new tools. Unfortunate, but you can check out Max Rose's Apex tutorials. He recently released a series for making custom Apex component scripts and subgraphs where he went into creating blendshapes too. However, if you don't know how Apex works, I would highly suggest doing his basic APEX and robot rig tutorial series first. It's a bit hard to understand at first but it slowly starts to make sense.

Ik / fk. Ik / fk.

Yes, this is for Phd rocket science people.

This is barebones release, with some more documentation and some extra higher level tools (mostly rig scripts) by SideFX and the community it will easily replace Maya. It only looks complicated at first but after using it for a while I have never been happier making a rig (although it is simple rn) than ever before in Maya. SESI made this thing look more complex than it is though, probably so that the more experienced users know what it is. This thing is extremely fast and already beats Maya, just need some time to mature. Quite a few other tools also had this kind of janky release bdw, but eventually they ended up being one of the best

@@fastlearner292 So you believe it can should be used for rigging and animation pipelines for animation production? We are in pre-production for a 12 episode series right now. If it's really more convenient from small-studio production then we might give it a go for this series.

​​​​@@SajanSingh-mj8ehfor some reason youtube didn't notify me for this. But to answer your question, no, don't use it for production yet. It's in beta and while it's still usable enough, I don't think using this in production is a good idea, especially since it has no documentation and things feel barebones. Imo it WILL become better than Maya, but the tooling isn't there yet and you have to do a whole lot of tinkering yourself to do stuff. I suggest waiting till 20.5 release atleast, by that time I expect it to be stable enough. I know that's a lot of time to wait but APEX pretty much was a premature release because they didn't have enough time till H20. Unless your current tools are useless and too much of a pain to deal with, that should be enough, otherwise contacting SideFX and exchanging info won't hurt.

@@fastlearner292 "it will easily replace Maya" hahaha are you serious? Maya + UE5 > this awful software