Blender Plugin Implementations for 3D Collaborative Work

The development of networking and client/server systems over the Internet had led to many collaborative work software applications. To extend the graphic design collaborative platforms focused on 3D artistic characters, the Articiel project is based on the Articiel collaborative platform that is a client-server application on the World Wide Web(WWW) based on a SOA architecture. This platform is including the essential functionalities needed by communities of distantly located artists to create and modify 3D characters or graphic animations. The Articiel platform collaborative functionalities are: messaging, agenda, storing and retrieving artists' projects and contributions. Previous work has proved the usability of the Articiel platform by the programming of a Maya plugin who was calling the platform functionalities through its Web services. The aim of this paper is to show a new contribution algorithm and the technical innovations resulting of the plugin conversion from Maya to Blender.