What is Shot Sculpt Pro?

Shot Sculpt Pro is an add-on for Blender that enables you to finish your animations exactly the way you want!

• Workflows for sculpting/editing on referenced characters!
• Easy to use SSP Workspace that helps you manage your work!
• Full control over your cached meshes! --  Bake cloth or tissue simulations to per frame shapekeys for easier edits!
• Special Modifier setups that allow you to control your Shot Sculpted meshes or Simulations to specific regions.
• Simple Animation Panel for quick Shape Key updates!

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What is Shot Sculpting?

Shot Sculpting or Tech Anim (as it is also known by) is a major step within the Animation and VFX industry that allows you to quickly adjust or enhance an animation on the go. Everybody loves a good character rig but it is not always practical or cost-effective to rig your characters for every conceivable pose that you may come across in a show. By having the ability to blend-in specific sculpt layers at certain points in time, shot sculpting allows you to finish your shot in a timely manner and have it look great too!

Sculpt muscle definition when there isn't time for muscle simulation!

Use Cases

Even when a rigging update is the optimal choice, you may be in instances where the rigging artist is too busy to make an update. Thus the best course of action then is shot sculpting. Additionally, shot sculpting can be extremely useful when you need to animate anatomical features but you don't have time or the budget for muscle/tissue simulation.

This method is also great for adjusting already pre-cached simulations such as cloth or tissue setups. At the end of a long cloth sim perhaps you notice some slight interpenetration into your collision mesh. Instead of resimming the cloth again and possibly having an even worse issue, it may be more prudent to smooth out those problem areas by doing shot sculpting on a baked-down version of the cache.

Bake Caches for complete control in Blender!

Most cache formats don't allow you to edit the mesh. Shot Sculpt Pro comes with multiple options to bake your mesh down to shapekeys.

Shot Sculpt Pro also comes with a complete character rig for testing purposes. Can be used commercially!

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SSP Mesh Wrangler modifier

The SSP Mesh Wrangler modifier is a custom geometry nodes setup that allows you to transfer the deformation of one mesh to another. With a set of handy controls, this modifier supercharges the shot sculpting and animation process!