Hello, I’m an experienced animator specializing in creatures like dragons, all types of quadrupeds, birds, sea creatures, etc. I recently had the thought it would be very fun and maybe helpful to others if I created some quality animal animation packs. But as I looked at the Fab marketplace under the “Animation” section I discovered a problem, it seems there are only animations for humans/bipeds, probably due to the fact there is only a standard UE skeleton for human/bipeds. There are no standard quadruped rigs.
And it looks like animal character models usually come with their own animations. I assume these are usually just animated by whoever modeled the character?
I have no experience making models/assets. Is there a way I could release an animation pack for a specific popular animal rig, so game developers or whoever could go buy the Animal character PLUS my animation pack? For example, I actually did reach out to the creator of a beautiful dragon rig and ask permission to sell an animation pack, and he said yes. So I could create some awesome looking animations with his rig, and then sell a pack with a title like “Dragon Animation Pack for [Dragon Creator]'s Dragon” and make it very obvious in the description that this is ONLY animation, and they need to buy the Dragon separately.
Would Fab allow that? If not, I feel like they are missing out on some quality collaborative work by creature animators.
Thanks!