New Plugin: LK Fabric

[Leonard Koch]

Hey list, today I have a new plugin for you. 

LK Fabric is an unsimulated tool-set made up of 50+ components, designed for the creation and animation of fabrics and cloths. 
Here is a video giving a tour of the basic functionality: https://vimeo.com/76474426

LK Fabric gives you control over the geometry of the cloth down to the fibres which make up the threads which then in turn make up the fabric.
It supports motionblur, strand-texturing directly in ICE, fabric flowing over multiple surfaces and many more things.

This tool has come out of a series of commercials for Nike, which I got to work on at Royale this summer. Here is their site: http://www.weareroyale.com/
They have graciously given me permission to release this tool-set for free to the community. Major thanks to them for that!

Big thanks also go to Billy Morrison and Andy Moorer who provided pages and pages of feedback during production and then used the tools to create all the pretty images.

The two spots are available on Vimeo. 
Nike Tech Fleece
Nike Evolution

Andy did a nice write-up about the production here on the list: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/xsi_list/hOECya3-bOA/JMNTPhu2qXUJ

You can download LK Fabric for free at: http://leonardkoch.com/download

If you find any bugs or have suggestions, feel free to shoot me an email to LKPl...@gmail.com.

I hope you guys check out the tool and that it helps you out in production.

Thanks!

[Leonard Koch]

I forgot to mention Ciaran Moloney who also provided a lot of feedback and was responsible for the lighting and rendering on the jobs, and also Steven Caron who kindly went in at one point and fixed a bug that was eluding me.

[Artur Woźniak]

Leonard, you are way to generous.
Giving away for free a tremendous tool which this is, is really uncommon
in other communities.
This could only happen here.

Thanks,


Artur


PS.

Get a paypal button.
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[Stefan Kubicek]

Hi Leonard, thanks a ton to you for releasing those tools, and Royale for generously funding it).
I remember I was blown awy when I saw the commercials, so much detail in the animations, and so organic - top notch work,
and the operators look very robust and flexible too.

I was never lucky enough to work on a project (besides when I was still making games, but not in commercials) that allowed for such sophisticated tool development. Out of personal interest: How long did it take to develop it up tho this point of maturity? Could you recycle pieces from LKLighnting?

Again thanks a lot!

Stefan

> Hey list, today I have a new plugin for you.
>
> LK Fabric is an unsimulated tool-set made up of 50+ components, designed
> for the creation and animation of fabrics and cloths.

> Here is a video <https://vimeo.com/76474426> giving a tour of the basic

> functionality: https://vimeo.com/76474426
>
> LK Fabric gives you control over the geometry of the cloth down to the
> fibres which make up the threads which then in turn make up the fabric.
> It supports motionblur, strand-texturing directly in ICE, fabric flowing
> over multiple surfaces and many more things.
>
> This tool has come out of a series of commercials for Nike, which I got to

> work on at *Royale* <http://www.weareroyale.com/> this summer. Here is

> their site: http://www.weareroyale.com/
> They have graciously given me permission to release this tool-set for free
> to the community. Major thanks to them for that!
>
> Big thanks also go to Billy Morrison and Andy Moorer who provided pages and
> pages of feedback during production and then used the tools to create all
> the pretty images.
>
> The two spots are available on Vimeo.

> Nike Tech Fleece <https://vimeo.com/73986114>
> Nike Evolution <https://vimeo.com/70825432>

>
> Andy did a nice write-up about the production here on the list:
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/xsi_list/hOECya3-bOA/JMNTPhu2qXUJ
>

> *You can download LK Fabric <http://leonardkoch.com/download> for free at: *
> *http://leonardkoch.com/download* <http://leonardkoch.com/download>

>
> If you find any bugs or have suggestions, feel free to shoot me an email to
> LKPl...@gmail.com.
>
> I hope you guys check out the tool and that it helps you out in production.
>
> Thanks!
>

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[Ed Manning]

Bravo, Leonard & Royale!

[Nick Angus]

Nice one Leonard, you are a very generous, and very clever  chap!

Sent from my Windows Phone

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Sent: ‎9/‎10/‎2013 8:31 PM
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Subject: New Plugin: LK Fabric

[Alok Gandhi]

Very nice! Thanks Leonard.

Sent from my iPhone

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[Paul Griswold]

The Softimage community continues to be one of the most generous I've ever been a part of.

Thank you Leonard!

-Paul

[olivier jeannel]

Enormous gift here !
That's super cool, the community has grown to a certain level of maturity regarding overal ice strand manipulation.
Top of my head : the lectures on productions such as G star Raw, nike, polynoid and some tutorials on vimeo (like the ones from Vincent Ulmann)
All those tools and methods shared makes effective and efficient users in the strands area !

[Daniel Brassard]

Thanks Leonard.

XMas came early this year .... Mootzoid emTopolizer2 and emReader and now Leonard LK Fabric. You rocks guys!

[Leonard Koch]

Thanks for the kind words guys.

"I was never lucky enough to work on a project (besides when I was still making games, but not in commercials) that allowed for such sophisticated tool development. Out of personal interest: How long did it take to develop it up tho this point of maturity?"

Good question. It took about two months to get to this state, which was the majority of the length of the job. The tool reached a production ready state after only a few weeks though and then I iterated from there.

It worked out quite well. While I did spend spend quite some time patching in functionality that was needed in the moment, I mostly got to focus on the vision of creating a well rounded, polished tool-set.

I think it is the much superior way compared to how it often goes where you're under the gun and just hack solutions together that you then stack on top of one another day after day without ever building a solid well thought-out base.

"Could you recycle pieces from LKLighnting?"

Unfortunately I couldn't reuse any of the pieces from LKLightning, but having built it was tremendously helpful.

LK Fabric works different than LKL in that it grabs all the information about the involved geometry at the beginning and then creates giant arrays which it performs operations on.

LKL keeps looking at the involved geometries while it performs operations and then looks at different parts of the geometries based on the outputs of those sub-operations.

it's a difference in approach which makes LKLightning more adaptable, but allows LK Fabric to be a lot faster and deal with much more dense detail.

[Toonafish]

Wow, muchos gracias Leonard and Royale !! What a generous gift.

Just gave it a spin, and the interactivity and renderspeed is amazing. I'm sure this will come in extremely handy.

Thanks again guys,

- Ronald

[Sebastien Sterling]

One word, Emotional

[Luc-Eric Rousseau]

unfortunately, some people have totally ruined the use of the word
"fabric" for plugin names. ;)

[Paul Griswold]

Haha!  It's like an engine for fabric creation!  (I can hear Helge groaning for the bad pun from here)

[Tim Crowson]

Someone should go for 'Fabrique' instead. Be sure to pronounce it correctly.
-Tim

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[Stephen Davidson]

how about FABRIC WEAVER ? :)

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[Eric Lampi]

Loom

Freelance 3D and VFX animator

http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work

[Sebastien Sterling]

LK Loom has a nice ring

[Leonard Koch]

Haha, yeah my bad Luc-Eric. I already apologized to the guys at fabric in an email exchange ;)

Fabric was just this quick and dirty name I gave it during production, but I guess it stuck...

@Eric: Loom is good, but unfortunately LK Lightning already abbreviates to LKL.

[Eric Thivierge]

LK_Loom?

[Eric Turman]

LK_Fiber?

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[Luc-Eric Rousseau]

RTFM: Realtime Textile Fiber Maker.

You're welcome.

[Leonard Koch]

I think this is my new favourite thread on the list. :>

[Eric Turman]

Bwahahaha

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau <luce...@gmail.com> wrote:

RTFM: Realtime Textile Fiber Maker.

You're welcome.

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[Eric Thivierge]

I think you should just say "screw those Fabric Engine dorks" and just keep it as LK Fabric.

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http://www.ethivierge.com

[Paul Doyle]

I'm right here.

[Leonard Koch]

I can't really call guys I have a nerdcrush on dorks Eric.

[Eric Thivierge]

Even more reason... :P

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[Eric Turman]

LK_Textile

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[olivier jeannel]

Sounds like a soap.
LK_Textile wash better....

[Stefan Kubicek]

LKYarnMaster, ..SpeedThreads, ..PowerThreads.

How about LKCartwright, after the British inventor Edmund Cartwright who invented to mechanical Loom, aka "Power Loom".

I always find it very hard to come up with sound and  sticky names for new things, for new things lack the history of evolution and impliciteness of established things, even if their names are sometimes stupid.

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[olivier jeannel]

What does a particle say to his tail ?

-"Strand by me"

:D

Le 10/10/2013 11:46, Stefan Kubicek a ￜcritￜ:

LKYarnMaster, ..SpeedThreads, ..PowerThreads.

How about LKCartwright, after the British inventor Edmund Cartwright who invented to mechanical Loom, aka "Power Loom".

I always find it very hard to come up with sound andￜ sticky names for new things, for new things lack the history of evolution and impliciteness of established things, even if their names are sometimes stupid.

Sounds like a soap.
LK_Textile wash better....

Le 10/10/2013 02:35, Eric Turman a ￜcritￜ:

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[Eric Turman]

send it in :)

http://cgjokes.com/

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 4:58 AM, olivier jeannel <olivier...@noos.fr> wrote:

What does a particle say to his tail ?

-"Strand by me"

:D

Le 10/10/2013 11:46, Stefan Kubicek a écrit :

LKYarnMaster, ..SpeedThreads, ..PowerThreads.

How about LKCartwright, after the British inventor Edmund Cartwright who invented to mechanical Loom, aka "Power Loom".

I always find it very hard to come up with sound and  sticky names for new things, for new things lack the history of evolution and impliciteness of established things, even if their names are sometimes stupid.

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[Toonafish]

....Leonards Knitting Nodes

- Ronald

On 10/10/2013 11:46, Stefan Kubicek wrote:

LKYarnMaster, ..SpeedThreads, ..PowerThreads.

How about LKCartwright, after the British inventor Edmund Cartwright who invented to mechanical Loom, aka "Power Loom".

I always find it very hard to come up with sound andￜ sticky names for new things, for new things lack the history of evolution and impliciteness of established things, even if their names are sometimes stupid.

Sounds like a soap.
LK_Textile wash better....

Le 10/10/2013 02:35, Eric Turman a ￜcritￜ:

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Alfred Feierfeilstraï¿œe 3

[Marc-Andre Carbonneau]

LK_FlyKnitKit

(just hope no law suit comes knocking at your door.. ;)

 

From: softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Toonafish
Sent: 10 octobre 2013 08:03
To: soft...@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: New Plugin: LK Fabric

 

....Leonards Knitting Nodes

- Ronald

On 10/10/2013 11:46, Stefan Kubicek wrote:

LKYarnMaster, ..SpeedThreads, ..PowerThreads.

How about LKCartwright, after the British inventor Edmund Cartwright who invented to mechanical Loom, aka "Power Loom".

 

I always find it very hard to come up with sound and  sticky names for new things, for new things lack the history of evolution and impliciteness of established things, even if their names are sometimes stupid.

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[Daniel Brassard]

LK Spindle

LK Weaver

[Steve Pratt]

Thanks sooo much Leonard.

Awesomely generous.

Steve

On 9 October 2013 21:31, Leonard Koch <leonard...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey list, today I have a new plugin for you. 

LK Fabric is an unsimulated tool-set made up of 50+ components, designed for the creation and animation of fabrics and cloths. 
Here is a video giving a tour of the basic functionality: https://vimeo.com/76474426

LK Fabric gives you control over the geometry of the cloth down to the fibres which make up the threads which then in turn make up the fabric.
It supports motionblur, strand-texturing directly in ICE, fabric flowing over multiple surfaces and many more things.

This tool has come out of a series of commercials for Nike, which I got to work on at Royale this summer. Here is their site: http://www.weareroyale.com/
They have graciously given me permission to release this tool-set for free to the community. Major thanks to them for that!

Big thanks also go to Billy Morrison and Andy Moorer who provided pages and pages of feedback during production and then used the tools to create all the pretty images.

The two spots are available on Vimeo. 
Nike Tech Fleece
Nike Evolution

Andy did a nice write-up about the production here on the list: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/xsi_list/hOECya3-bOA/JMNTPhu2qXUJ

You can download LK Fabric for free at: http://leonardkoch.com/download

If you find any bugs or have suggestions, feel free to shoot me an email to LKPl...@gmail.com.

I hope you guys check out the tool and that it helps you out in production.

Thanks!

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[Leonard Koch]

Hey everyone,

thanks to a project at The Mill, LK Fabric is now available for Linux. CentOS 6.2 to be exact.

Particular thanks for this goes to Jeffrey Dates and Ruben Vandebroek. So if your operating system has been keeping you from using LK Fabric, send free beer and flowers over to them.

The new linux-version (and of course also the windows version) are available for download here: http://leonardkoch.com/download/

I hope you guys on CentOS get some good use out of it!

[Emilio Hernandez]

Amazing job!  Well done!

And thank you for sharing!

[Alan Fregtman]

Very nice of you and Royale to give this stuff away for free. :) Thank you.

[Leonard Koch]

I'm glad you guys approve.
If there is anyone out there who wants to compile for other linux distros, please speak up.

[Angus Davidson]

Awesome Plugin. Really hope 2015 brings a better linux installer (rpm and deb) that will allow more folks to use SI on Linux with far less hassle.

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