Welcome to Red9’s documentation!

Author : Mark Jackson

Red9 Consultancy Limited
http://red9consultancy.com

https://vimeo.com/user9491246

Red9 was born out of frustration for the lack of this kind of in-depth support that there is in the general Maya community.
We wanted to create full production ready tools suite which integrated seemlessly within Maya, giving users the
kind of pipeline support normally limited to larger studios.
The base of all our toolsets is the Red9 StudioPack, it’s open source and has been in full production with a huge number of major studios since around 2011.
It’s production battered, tested in anger and always growing.
In 2013 we setup Red9Consultancy, allowing us to expand and tailor the pipelines around a larger, more complex studio based environment.
Supplying Rigs, Facial systems and bespoke pipelines to studios wanting a more dedicated solution.
To this end we now also have the Red9 ProPack, being designed alongside a number of AAA studios and including the kind of tools and workflows
that you can’t get in a totally generic setup. To this end we extended our MetaData systems and now offer our own Red9 Puppet system.

Red9 StudioPack Modules

The Red9 StudioPack core is coded in such a way as to allow most of the functions to be expanded upon, and used by any tech artists / programmer out there,
solving many common issues you find when coding in Maya. The core modules are expanding rapidly so keep up to date. Red9 main repository can
now be found on GitHub and I’ll be branching on there every release:

https://github.com/markj3d/Red9_StudioPack

  • Red9_AnimationUtils : all animation functions for dealing with data flow, key management, mirroring and time
  • Red9_Audio : Audio tools for managing sound nodes, includes a full audio compiler for mixing multiple wav together
  • Red9_CoreUtils : backbone of the systems, filtering, processing and managing nodes on mass
  • Red9_General : general system calls
  • Red9_Meta : MetaData api - huge library for data flow management around complex Maya rigs.
  • Red9_PoseSaver : generic poseSaver for any rig
  • Red9_Tools : generic tools for Maya

Red9 ProPack Modules

The ProPack is a far more complex in-depth set of tools, designed for mid / large studios that want that extra level service and the stress taking out of production.
We’ve developed the ProPack around the needs of production, including new file management systems, our own animation format, animation re-direction systems,
metaData based export setups, extensive HealthManagement and testing and lots more.

For more details contact us .

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