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DreamWall Picker

DreamWall Picker is a free and open source animation picker for Autodesk's Maya.

Authors: Lionel Brouyère, Olivier Evers

This tool is a fork of Hotbox Designer (Lionel Brouyère). A menus, markmenu and hotbox designer cross DCC. https://github.com/luckylyk/hotbox_designer

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Key Features

  • Support from Maya 2018 to 2025
  • Fast, ergonomic and straigh-forward designer canvas.
  • Highly customizable buttons.
  • Multiple backgrounds.
  • Custom vectorial shapes.
  • Display layers.
  • Multiple splited viewports.
  • Screen space or world space buttons.
  • Configurable right click menu.
  • Command scripts in Python and Mel.
  • Import AnimSchool pickers done before 2022.
  • Simplifyed installation.
  • Store picker in maya scene and editable in every scene.

History

2021, Christmas is approaching, and the cold is setting in. Suddenly, a decision from afar—quite strange from a commercial perspective—puts us in a tough spot. We learn that we’re about to lose access to over 200 pickers used in our productions. A hundred animators, both in-house and at our partners, are going to be stuck.

We rolled up our sleeves in a rush and quickly coded a solution to keep things running. It turns out that many other studios found themselves in the same situation.

To ensure this situation could never happen again, we simply decided to make our work available to all animators worldwide under an Open Source and free license, guaranteeing that the tool will always be available for free.

Enjoy ! ;D

Who DreamWall Studio ?

DreamWall is an animation studio located in Charleroi, Belgium, operating for more than 15 years. The studio specializes in producing 2D and 3D animated content for television, film, and digital platforms. DreamWall collaborates on projects for clients both in Belgium and internationally.