Nice, thanks for the upgrade pricing! I bought Lockdown 2 a while back and have never fully had time to get into it. This is an instant upgrade having just gotten my Maxon One subscription going. :)
A few updates down the line (especially with advancements in AI), I could see this turning into a post hoc photogrammetry tool. Getting entire 3D models from 2D footage.
Came here to ask about potential Blender support like half of the commenters, and I'm happy to see it's already supported! Would have been nice to mention in the video though ;)
Hi Chris, fantastic update as always. One question though, will there be another upgrade tier for people who bought Lockdown before Feb 2023 BUT have also purchased paint link and composite brush? Thanks!
Amazing! Hows the workflow for Maya or Houdini with ABC? Looks like great integration with C4D and exporting back to After Effects with Cineware. Would the workflow be the same with an ABC coming from maya with textures?
The alembic contains a camera, the animated mesh, the user created transforms, and a background plane. To use it in Maya (or any application with alembic) you have to manually create the material and apply an image sequence to it. You also have to set the material to project through the work camera onto the mesh. So there are a few extra steps, but it should all be possible.
Hi!! Anyone knows how to import Mocha mesh data for Lockdown 2.8.7? It doesn’t have the update of import Mocha/Face tracker directly yet and I scrambled all over trying to find out how to do that. I have exported abc file and tapped alembic under Lockdown pop out panel but it says not supported ://
Man I'm sorry to say these were all done back in 2019, before Ai really got to that level. So all of these style transfers were brute force tracking! Id go to a frame, paint it, track it, when it starts to break down after a dozen tracked frames, paint that frame and make a new track with it with a new mesh. I think the fastest way in 2023 would be to use some fully automated AI style transfer WITHOUT Lockdown. Then assess the distortions and inaccuracies (because they'll be there!) Then use Lockdown to very specifically fix the bad areas. You would probably only have to use lockdown for characters faces, which humans are super sensitive to the details of. Most background stuff you probably would barely need to touch
Do you have a software license for teachers or a monthly subscription option? Not everyone can afford that price, honestly couldn't even afford photoshop since version 3 until they started to do a subscription service.
@@rokah1391 To be honest, not very much. We did add a new tracking algorithm, however that's still in beta. It's nice to be able to export nulls directly to Ae though! There were a few minor improvements to the 2D workflow, but they're mostly performance and speed improvements. Sorry if that is disappointing to 2D animators out there, but this tool was definitely fully focused on 3D this time around.
At this moment, we aren't planning to. There wasn't as much interest in Lockdown from the Fusion/Resolve crowd as you might think. But if we see growing interest, we'd consider it.
