MyGames Tacticool animation 2025-03-14 My.Games approached me and asked if I would be interested in writing an overview article about the animation process of ...
Auto Foot Contact 2025-03-07 Had to clean up some mocap and got a little annoyed at the lack of tools in Maya for efficient foot contact clean up. Th...
Maya - Foot Planter 2025-02-28 Experimenting with new BroDynamics physics engine to create additional utilities. For example - foot contact, in just...
BroDynamics - Animatter Solver and Node Editor 2025-02-19 It seems that people love nodes. So I got you some nodes. Working on a new node UI for the upcoming BroDynamics updat...
BroDynamics - Custom Physics engine (PBD, XPBD, Verlet experiments) 2025-01-17 Playing around with the new custom physics engine for BroDynamics. Experimenting with PBD, XPBD and Verlet, ended up usi...
BroDynamics - Cooking something (new physics engine, Custom nodes) 2025-01-16 Cooking something. New custom verlet based physics engine with support for particles, constraints and effectors. B...
Bringing the power of LLMs (AI) into Maya 2024-12-24 As promised, a better and more fleshed out AI integration for Maya is almost here. It reached the MVP state and I'm runn...
BroAI Tests 2024-12-22 A while ago I [showcased my experiment in integrating ChatGPT with Maya](https://discord.com/channels/64708212545106740...
ShowReel 2025 - Animation, Tech Animation, VFX, Tech Art, Tools dev 2024-12-16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heDlI7NoQ7g My showreel for the start of 2025. Includes select works up until the ...
Tacticool 2024-12-15 # Animation of Tacticool After 5 years of working as Lead Animator (and a bit of VFX Artist and Tech Artist) on Tacti...
Music: Embers and Ashes 2023-12-15 Two more music tracks I wrote a few months ago and didn't post on my website. (No AI was used in making these, jus...
GPT in Maya 2023-03-24 Well, this somehow... happened. With any luck will polish and include it in future versions of BroTools. A plugin for...
Music: Got back to my old hobby 2023-03-06 Trying to brush up my music writing skills. Here's something synthewavey (No AI was used in making these, just good old...
Skeleton Preview Mesh generator 2023-01-11 Experimenting with generating meshes based on skeleton, for previewing and proxy purposes. Might make it into future rel...
Custom UV Pin node in Python 2022-09-05 Maya 2020 onward has a fun useful node called "uvPin" that is supposedly useful for creating rivets. However it does not...
Maya Script: Select half of mesh vertices along a plane 2022-01-18 A script to select exactly half of the mesh's vertices along any axis, independently of where it's located in the scene....
BroRig: Auto rigging tools are slowly coming together! 2021-10-12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6O-KIG7Ujk BroRig is something I've been working on and off for quite a while now. I...
Ultimate Renamer for Maya 2021-05-28 Another tool soon to join the ranks of BroTools - BroRenamer! A modular renamer where you can select from multiple "...
BroDynamics 2021.5.26 Update Highlights 2021-05-26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgz8enARLAQ Highlight of this release is addition of Cycle\Seamless Looping for Point...
Tweeener! 2021-05-20 Well yes, there's a free TweenMachine and there are a lot of different tween-like tools in animBot. But BroTools will so...
Something I've worked on a while ago... 2021-05-06 Just realized that NDA's dropped for a project I've worked on in 2015, Celestials, GameInsight as Lead Animator. Jus...
New step in BroDynamics and BroTools development 2021-03-11 Today I'm proud to announce the new step in BroDynamics and BroTools development. I've decided to put more time and work...
BroTools, some developments 2021-01-21 Working on some updates to BroDynamics and BroTools as a whole system. Finally there's something visual to show. Stil...
PiOnAir - DIY WFH Indicator 2020-12-22 I've been working from home for years, long before it became mainstream. But previously my wife would go to the office, ...
Home servers and Proxmox 2020-04-06 So, didn't write anything in a while, time to fix that, eh? There are some interesting things going on that I could w...
BroDynamics 2020 New Year Sale! 2019-12-20 BroDynamics sale! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=497tAV0ABfc [https://gumroad.com/l/BroDynamics/newyear2020](http...
BroDynamics and BroTools now have Discord server and Facebook group! 2019-12-10 BroTools and BroDynamics now have a Discord server and a Facebook group! [Join Discord!](https://discord.gg/tTS8R7t) ...
Some progress on something I've been planning to do for a long time now! 2019-10-21 Finally starting to come together! ![Teaser](https://michaeldavydov.com/static/media/brteaser/main.gif "enter image t...
BroDynamics 2.2.1 is out now! 2019-07-11 I've been working a lot with a few studios lately, bringing new features to BroDynamics to improve workflow. One of such...
Home Automation and Home Assistant 101 2019-06-22 I've been playing with Home Automation for a while now, well over 2 years, and while I did not have a chance to try out ...
HomeAutomation: Nginx Quick Setup with SSL (Draft) 2019-05-05 Seeing as more and more people ask similar questions about Home Automation, Home Assistant, Nginx, SSL and the like I de...
BroDynamics Troubleshooting - Maya hanging on plugin load, possible solution 2019-03-31 I was getting scarce reports from BroDynamics users about Maya hanging on BroDynamics startup, or more precisely - when ...
BroDynamics 2.1.0 (Beta) released! 2019-02-04 BroDynamics 2.1.0 is out and with it comes a lot of improvements! ## Improvements First of all you'll notice that ...
BroDynamics 2.1 Sneak Peek 2019-01-03 A little sneak peek into the upcoming 2.1 release. Think you can spot a few major changes and improvements? https://y...
BroDynamics New Year Sale! 2018-12-20 **BroDynamics New Years sale is now on! 20% off!** Limited offer. [https://youtu.be/O8Bu3VuHNnQ](https://youtu.be/...
BroDynamics 2.0.11 2018-09-01 BroDynamics 2.0.11 released, with improved namespace support in Batch simulation tool! [Read more in Documentaton!](h...
BroDynamics 2.0.9 2018-08-28 BroDynamics is now at version 2.0.9, with a few UI improvements, updated Documentation and a new feature allowing you to...
BroDynamics 2.1 goals 2018-05-16 My new goal for BroDynamics 2.1 update is** improving and refining user experience**. It means: - Improving and polis...
BroDynamics 2.0 is released! 2018-04-22 ### BroDynamics 2.0 is available! https://youtu.be/O3srm8PJOME New major version was reworked from the ground up, ...
Paladins: Champions of the Realm 2018-04-18 It was fun animating emotes for Paladins :) Here are some of my animations, so far only those that were published up to ...
BroDynamics 2.0 Sneak Peak - Self Updater 2018-03-02 A sneak peak of one of the new features of BroDynamics 2.0 - built-in updater. I wanted to implement it for a long ti...
Maya - Dockable windows boilerplate 2018-02-19 So, here's an update boilerplate. Details in comments. [https://gist.github.com/Nixellion/f28051f1b53fee8b11a2fcd36ca...
Maya - new approach to dockable windows 2018-02-14 Maya 2017 brought us new interface, new features and... new problems in form of API changes. First thing we faced was s...
BroDynamics leaves Highend3D\CreativeCrash 2018-02-09 ( If you bought BroDynamics from CreativeCrash\Highend3D - you can read about how you can obtain a Gumroad copy at the e...
Merry Christmass and a Happy New Year! 2017-12-08 BroDynamics Christmass and New Year sale! [https://gum.co/BroDynamics/ny2018](https://gum.co/BroDynamics/ny2018)
Instaload 2017-12-08 By the way, my old educational project, Instaload, is now updated and running here: [michaeldavydov.com:1515](http://...
Bro IKFK Switcher Bug! 2017-11-24 I just found a somewhat critical bug in Bro IKFK Switcher which was causing incorrect aligment of match locators created...
Bro IKFK Switcher Update 1.2.1 2017-11-24 **1.2.1** - Fixed bug with incorrect matching of generated Match Locators - Updated matching function. Both ...
Linux NAS Dashboard 2017-11-18 Made a custom Python-flask-bootstrap web-dashboard for my NAS, with CPU load, temperatures, hdd capacity and most import...
BroTools - Auto IKFK Switcher Update 1.2.0 2017-09-21 IK FK Switcher is updated to version 1.2.0, which brings a lot of improvements: - Improved matching function - result...
BroTools - Auto IKFK Switcher Update 1.1.0 2017-08-20 Bro IKFK Switcher is updated! ![](https://nixes.ru/media/brotools_ikfk_switcher_bake-gif/main.gif "enter image title ...
Games: Nier Automata 2017-08-19 Just a few days ago I finished Nier: Automata. I could not stop thinking and processing it ever since. So in the end I d...
New Website 2017-07-25 Yay, I've got a brand new website! And not just some new website. This one I wrote myself, (almost) from scratch, bac...
BroTools Snippets #04 - Mirror FFD Box 2017-01-18 *Different small parts of my expanding collection of Maya tools and scripts, from small scripts to large rigging and sim...
Non-3D Python exercise: Instaload 2017-01-17 Well, this is not related to 3D or CG, but it’s Python! Was bored one day, and had to download a couple of images fro...
House of Languages 2016-12-30 This was a simple but really fun project with it's own challenges and a lot of animations. I was responsible for all an...
BroTools Snippets #03 - PySide context menu for QLineEdit and other elements... 2016-12-02 *Different small parts of my expanding collection of Maya tools and scripts, from small scripts to large rigging and sim...
Battlesouls 2016-12-02 On this project I was rigging and animating multiple characters. [www.battlesouls.com](http://www.battlesouls.com) ...
BroTools Snippets #02 - Select joints influencing mesh 2016-12-01 Saving another couple of clicks in routine work, simple script to select joints influencing skinned mesh. Could not find...
Every morning in Russia 2016-12-01   After some time of searching the web for something like good-old Spring M...
Unity fun 2016-03-25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSuhTtiNF78 Having fun with Unity 3D. A little game-ish created in the process. My ow...
STALKER PB Game Announcment 2015-10-21 https://vimeo.com/143157898 This was an announcment for a paintball game based on STALKER universe. Though it was us...
Prohibition PB Game Announcment 2015-10-21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJHU8EZNV7A This was an announcement for a paintball game based around the mafia and ...
GUARDIANS Sport - Russia 2013 Cup Final 2013-11-20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DATY-gLL1EE Filmed and edited, made logo animations for Guardians. We won! That's my ...
Precursors Making of 2013-11-17 https://youtu.be/MzEHYPQquLs ### Motion Capture Almost every animation was made with the help of two Microsoft Kinec...
Precursors CG Short 2013-11-16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkAvt25X0HY **This particular cinematic was our first attempt at making a full cinema...
Tracktor Bowling Official Music Video 2011-07-05 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE6qsgdt-Y0 Yay! Music video directed and filmed by me and my VGIK classmates, in a ...