Introduction

Welcome to Ziva’s VFX Utilities, a set of python utilities that have been designed to help leverage the benefits of the Ziva Character Simulation paradigm. You can find the BitBucket repo for these tools here.

Ziva Dynamics

zBuilder is a tool for extracting part of a Maya scene into a Python representation that’s easy to manipulate, save to disk, and re-apply to a Maya scene. It has lots of support for manipulating Ziva creatures and can be easily extended. It’s designed to be used by Technical Directors who are rigging characters with ZivaVFX. It supports use cases such as updating a rig when new geometry is published and transferring a Ziva rig from one character to another.