SmartTissue

SmartTissue is the dynamics layer that adds back what pose-based approaches lose - all the jiggle, settle, and overshoot that come from simulating fascia and fat. All the detail that brings a character to life and drives a great performance. 

SmartTissue uses our proprietary neural network architecture to predict how the underlying muscles are activating to achieve the current pose, then uses that to drive the simulation. The result is consistent, reliable, high-fidelity deformation without the computational expense of a full anatomy sim. When the character moves, all the dynamics you'd expect are solved rapidly - and crucially, you don't need to wrestle with physical parameters to get there. AdonisML gives you a set of controls to define SmartTissue's behaviour directly.

Anatomy transfer: the complete system

Most vertebrates share the same structural logic - a horse's hindlimb and a human leg have the same bones, the same muscle groups, the same tendon paths. The proportions and topology differ, but the underlying structure is similar, and that's what makes anatomy transfer possible.

AdnTransfer provides a complete workflow for moving anatomy geometry from one character to another by mapping the anatomical correspondence between them. Two new deformers sit at the core:

• AdnRigidWrap attaches a mesh to one or more target meshes. Each point locks to the closest location on the targets and follows their animation, preserving its initial offset throughout.

• AdnSoftWrap wraps a mesh around animated targets by blending influences from nearby areas within a defined radius. Where RigidWrap produces precise attachment, SoftWrap handles the tissue in between, producing continuous soft deformation across the whole mesh.

The Landmark Tool gives you a dedicated UI for placing and configuring the landmark pairs between source and target meshes, with correspondence set visually, directly on the meshes.

AdnMush: fine detail in every solver

The new AdnMush preserves fine anatomical surface detail like the ribs or pectoral muscle striations, through deformation while still reducing skinning and post-simulation artefacts. In Adonis 2.1 it runs inside every solver as part of the solve itself, so the output is cleaner without adding an extra node to the deformation stack. It remains available as a standalone post-process node for shot-level corrections where you need to work without re-running the simulation.

For artists using the Turbo auto-setup workflow, the generated rig now uses AdnMush for artefact correction. A skin cluster that would previously have needed significant cleanup comes out of Turbo looking substantially better, so the gap between your starting point and producing something for initial feedback from a supe is smaller than it's ever been.