Premo is a SciTech Award winning animation application developed by DreamWorks. Recently, rigging was incorporated into the application. In this paper, we present Overrides, Premo’s powerful, flexible data model that enables many of the modular rigging workflows introduced at SIGGRAPH 2023 [Bryson et al. 2023]. These workflows highlighted how our artists use visual programming to author character rigs by creating and assembling pre-authored versioned modules together. Build scripts and programming are not required. This enables our artists to stay in-session and focused on the art rather than using technical build processes. Overrides empowers these workflows and enables artists to build highly reusable character components.

Paper in the ACM Digital Library