Secondary overlap – it adds a ton to your shot but can be very tedious sometimes depending on what is being animated. This tool helps with that! With a few button clicks, you can add dynamic overlap baked right onto your controllers for almost any type of action! At Sony, we have a tool called “JFlex” which really helps get secondary motion quickly, and this is the closest thing I could find online that works in a similar fashion. You never really realize how much you use a tool until you don’t have access to it. Right? In fact, BroDynamics actually goes a step further and allows for different types of dynamics to be simulated. Springs, Tails, even Rigid Body ragdolls.

Nicholas St. Clair
Lead Animator at Sony Pictures Imageworks

Animating tails is something that can take quite a bit of time. In this video, I show you how I use BroTools and BroDynamics to easily animate tails with the click of a button. This gives you great dynamics-driven tail animation that you can then begin to build upon and tweak to your liking.

Mark Masters
Senior Animator at People Can Fly Studio

Another Maya animation workflow demo, this time using BroDynamics and Anim Layers to quickly block in overlap. I’m not affiliated with BroDynamics in any way, I just find it to be a great tool!

Brian Horgan
Lead Animator at Super Spline Studios