With nearly 30 years of experience in the animation industry, Gabriele Ranfagni has built an extensive career. Starting as 2D Animator, he has honed his skills as a Storyboard Artist, Character Designer, Layout Artist, Background Artist, Stop-Motion Animator, Rigger, and is now an accomplished 3D Animator with recent contributions to House of the Dragon, Ridley Scott's Napoleon and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
To address the challenges animators face in delivering high-quality work efficiently, Gabriele is offering his own Ranfagni Toolset, a comprehensive animation toolkit designed to streamline and enhance your workflow. The video above showcases the tools, featuring:
- RANFATIME, giving you precise control over the timing of your animations in a non-destructive way;
- RANFATRAVEL and CYCLETOOL, accelerating your body mechanics and making complex movements a breeze;
- RANFAREFERENCE for managing your references, converting your video into a sequence of images, etc.;
- RANFX and RANFAVIZ for enhancing your playblast and preparing it for your supervisor;
- RANFASPACE, a World Space tool;
- COPY WORLD TOOL for copying and pasting your world coordinates, great for achieving precise foot contacts.