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RxOT, the Rx Open Tools

We develop and distribute free and open source tools to help motion pictures production.

Rx Applications

**DuME**
*the Duduf Media Encoder* is a modern, fast, versatile and easy-to-use Media Encoder.

**Ramses**
*the Rx Asset Management System*, is a complete framework to help you, your team, your studio, track the production of your films and automate your workflow.

Autodesk Maya Add-ons

**DuBlast**
is a plug-in which creates better playblasts than the native ones.

Krita Add-ons

**OCA**
*the Open Cel Animation format* is an open format to ease the exchange of traditional/frame-by-frame/cel animation between different applications.

Adobe After Effects Add-ons

**Dufx**
helps you manage the effects used in your project.

**DuSan**
runs sanity tests to help you improve your workflow.

**DuSI**
collects system info from Adobe Apps to help debugging and can fix or uninstall *RxLaboratory* scripts.

**DuGR**
enables you to group layers, and isolate the display of these groups.

**DuIO**
is a collection of tools for exporting and importing stuff.

**Duik Ángela**
will soon be **the** new comprehensive rigging and animation tool set for *Adobe After Effects*.

The DuME
script sends your compositions to be rendered using our almighty Duduf Media Encoder.

Blender Add-ons

**Bluik**
will soon be a comprehensive 2D, Cut-Out rigging and animation tool set.

DuSKA
The Duduf Shape Key Animator, makes it easy to… animate shape keys!

**DuBlast**
makes it quick and easy to create and play better animation playblasts.

**DuRPresets**
exports and imports all render settings as external presets.

We strongly believe that emancipation, free sharing and helping each other will make the world a better place for everyone.

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Watch, Read, Learn

We're sharing our knowledge and savoir-faire about motion pictures production. Here you can find docs, books, tutorials to learn, and we're also regularly teaching in several schools as well as giving lectures and holding exclusive master-classes.

We provide a comprehensive documentation for all of our tools, and even more. Because this is the 21^st century, video quicktips and tutorials too.

Tutorials

**The comprehensive course about animation** with After Effects and Duik.
**Character rigging with Duik and After Effects** is one thing, but one other thing is animation!
**It's time to learn how to make characters move**, and even better, to give them a soul and a heart, to animate them!

**The official course about Duik Ángela**
will teach you **everything you need to know to prepare your characters** and props for the animation using Duik and After Effects.

Learn how to **Rig and animate a cute robot with Duik Ángela in After Effects**.
In this tutorial, **you’ll learn how to rig and animate the character**, including the facial rig, **with the brand new version of Duik: Ángela**, which you’ll get before everyone else!

Books

**Understanding OpenEXR Compression Methods**
When using the OpenEXR format, it may be hard to determine what are the best data compression and settings to use, and the question is raised very often. This document is an attempt to answer it, depending on what is your need with the file and what type of image you’re storing.

**Duik Ángela: User Guide**
This book contains the source code of the Duik API. It’s a manifesto for open source software. It’s a way to physically show how open source software is different from other software, to show and explain how important it is, how even this small free software may weigh to change the world. This is briefly explained in the preface by Duduf.
Ordering this book is also, mostly, an nice way to support our work for free software!

**Plus Vite !**
Alors que le marcheur descend dans la vallée, par ce sentier dont il connait la moindre pierre, le moindre sapin, il découvre qu’un chantier coupe son chemin. Après l’autoroute, le tunnel routier, le tunnel ferroviaire, voici venu le tunnel à grande vitesse.

Quicktips

Quicktips are our very short tutorials, to quickly learn specific features and useful techniques. They're all free!

Talks

Each time we organize lectures, or give any form of educational speech anywhere, we try to record everything. A lot of talks are available here on video!

We’re also always willing to come everywhere in the world to give lectures, workshops, master classes in schools, in studios, or during events. For example, Duduf, lead developer at RxLab. and artistic director at Rainbox Prod. has already been in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Colombia, Canada, Taiwan, Mexico, Israel… to hold master classes and workshops.

Do not hesitate to contact us if you’d like to organize one of these in your school/studio/event…

Documents and Guides

All our tools are fully documented. You can find all guides on rxlab.guide and all API references on rxlab.io.

We also wrote some other useful documents, both in English and French, freely available because we think knowledge is meant to be shared.

English documents

Understanding openEXR compression methods.

Working with free software: the 100% free pipeline used at Rainbox (and other possibilities).

Understanding Colors and Color Management in the motion pictures industry.

The Green Guide to transccoding.

Introduction to Fuzzy Logic for developers (and curious people)

Documents en français

Comprendre les méthodes de compression en openEXR.

Comprendre les Couleurs et Color Management dans la production audiovisuelle.

Guide pédagogique à l’usage des enseignants et étudiants.

Schools and teaching

We’re always trying to provide a comprehensive documentation for our tools, and other documents, along with nice tutorials or quick tips. But when it’s possible, the best way to share techniques and experience is by just meeting each other. Teaching, meet-ups, talks, are of great importance for us, and we’re always happy to come and meet you everywhere in the world, to share techniques and experiences.
We’re already teaching regularly in several schools in Europe, both in French or English, and have workshops or master classes in a lot of them.
Contact us if you’re interested…

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