New C4D Plugin Assists With Character Animation Pipeline

David Weidemann is a Berlin-based freelance designer and animator who recently has posted a few plugins and scripts for Cinema 4D. One of them, Character Template Master, is a character animation pipeline management tool, that you might find useful.

With a character animation pipeline, it could prove problematic for animators to keep track of the latest iterations coming from the rigging department. This is where David’s plugin can really help. The plugin assists with keeping the animator’s animations up to date with the rigger’s most recent templates on a team server.

Character Template Master will automatically update the local character template in Cinema 4D when the rigging artist saves a new template to the server. That way you are always animating with the latest, most up to date character rig for the project at hand.

The character animation pipeline tool will also automatically install new characters for the animators, by sharing a character template master configuration file on the server.

Character Template Master runs under Cinema 4D versions R15 – R17, and can be found on David Weidemann’s GumRoad page.