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Design measurement frameworks including event taxonomy, KPI hierarchy, dashboard architecture, attribution models, and analytics implementation strategy. Use this skill whenever the user wants to plan analytics, design dashboards, build event taxonomies, define KPIs, set up tracking, or audit existing measurement. Triggers on analytics strategy, measurement plan, event taxonomy, tracking plan, KPI framework, dashboard design, north star metric, attribution model, conversion tracking, GA4 setup, Mixpanel setup, analytics audit. Also triggers when the user has data but no clear way to use it, or wants to make decisions but doesn't know what to track.

How humans and AI compose in content workflows. Where AI legitimately participates, where humans must own, hybrid workflow patterns, voice ownership preservation, the AI slop problem, disclosure and transparency, team calibration, and the ethics of intellectually honest AI-assisted content production. Triggers on AI content workflow, AI-assisted writing, hybrid content production, AI in editorial, AI slop, AI disclosure, AI usage policy, AI content ethics, voice preservation with AI, team AI calibration. Also triggers when content feels generic despite quality tools, when team AI usage has drifted into inconsistency, or when a regulated or trust-sensitive context requires explicit AI policy.

Run a structured after-action review (postmortem, retrospective) on a launch, incident, or completed project to capture timeline, root cause analysis, contributing factors, and actionable lessons. Use this skill whenever the user wants to run a postmortem, retrospective, AAR, or after-action review on any past event. Triggers on after-action report, AAR, postmortem, retrospective, retro, post-incident review, what went well what didn't, lessons learned, blameless postmortem, root cause analysis, RCA, five whys. Also triggers when the user has just shipped something or just resolved an incident and wants to capture learnings.

How to read paid media dashboards without fooling yourself. Attribution models, platform reporting quirks, multi-platform reconciliation, ROAS vs LTV horizon traps, statistical noise in performance metrics, incrementality testing, and the failure modes that produce expensive lessons. Triggers on read paid media dashboard, attribution analysis, ROAS vs LTV, multi-platform reconciliation, ad incrementality, geo holdout, conversion lift study, ghost bidding, paid media reporting, board-deck paid media metrics, blended CAC, MMM, MTA, last-click attribution. Also triggers when a marketer is about to scale, kill, or rebudget a campaign based on platform metrics, or when reconciling platform reports against warehouse revenue.

How to produce ad creative that converts at performance scale. Hook patterns, format selection, video pacing, variation systems, sequential testing methodology, fatigue detection, brand-voice alignment without conversion dilution, and platform-specific creative norms. Triggers on ad creative, ad design, hook patterns, ad video pacing, creative testing, ad variations, creative refresh, creative fatigue, refresh ad creative, video ads for Meta, TikTok creative, LinkedIn ad creative, ad asset library. Also triggers when a team is producing creative at scale, planning a creative test cycle, or auditing why creative is not converting.

Run a comprehensive WCAG accessibility audit covering perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust principles. Use this skill whenever the user wants to audit accessibility, review WCAG compliance, fix accessibility issues, prepare for accessibility certification, address an accessibility lawsuit risk, or systematically improve a site's accessibility. Triggers on accessibility audit, WCAG audit, a11y audit, accessibility compliance, ADA compliance, screen reader test, keyboard navigation, accessibility report, fix accessibility, axe scan. Also triggers when accessibility issues have been reported and need systematic remediation.

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Use when building or debugging Unity gameplay systems: enemy AI that patrols, chases and attacks, NavMesh baking and agents (AI Navigation 2), feet sliding on agents, state machines or behavior trees, physics projectiles that tunnel, the physics spiral, layers and the collision matrix, CharacterController vs Rigidbody characters, object pooling, 'hundreds of enemies', DOTS, Burst or Jobs decisions, Netcode for GameObjects multiplayer, audio mixers, snapshots, volume sliders and 3D combat sounds.

Use when making or fixing real-time VFX in Unity 6.3: explosions, fireballs, projectiles with muzzle, trail and impact, spells, slashes, shockwaves, smoke, sparks, Particle System (Shuriken) or VFX Graph ('VFX Graph explosion', 'particles look bad', 'effect kills fps on mobile', 'too much overdraw'), mesh effects with scrolling textures, an uber VFX shader with LUT ramps, Custom Data and custom vertex streams, flipbooks and VFX textures, pink particles after URP upgrade, VFX budgets and readability.

Use when building or fixing game UI in Unity 6.3: main menu, settings screen (resolution, quality, volume, key rebinding), HUD, health bar, minimap frame; choosing uGUI or UI Toolkit or mixing both; 'UI scales wrong on phones', portrait to 4K, Canvas Scaler, anchors, layout groups collapsing, sort order, UXML/USS, data binding, TextMeshPro or UI Toolkit fonts missing glyphs, localized menus, gamepad navigation, UI draw calls, canvas rebuild spikes, UI tests, or capturing UI to check it.

Use when a Unity 6.3 URP task involves shaders: hand-written HLSL, Shader Graph water, toon, dissolve or outline, Custom Function nodes, a renderer feature or full-screen effect on Render Graph, compute shaders, shader variants, keywords, stripping, Shader Build Settings, PSO warm-up, or shader cost; or when a material turns pink or invisible, casts no shadow, ignores extra lights under Forward+, an effect 'does nothing', the game stutters the first time something appears, or builds bloat with variants.

Use when setting up URP (or choosing URP vs HDRP), configuring URP assets and quality tiers for PC and phones, lighting a stylized or realistic Unity scene (sun, sky, baked or mixed lightmaps, Shadowmask, Adaptive Probe Volumes, reflection probes), or fixing blurry shadows, light leaks, gray bakes, washed-out images, tonemapping and grading, bloom too expensive on mobile, TAA, STP or MSAA choices, GPU Resident Drawer setup, shader warm-up hitches, or a custom shader that vanished or lost its baked light.

Use when automating a Unity 6.3 content pipeline or build: importing an art drop (FBX, PNG) with AssetPostprocessor rules and naming conventions, generating prefabs or editing scenes from script with correct Undo and SetDirty, Addressables groups, labels and content builds, content-validation tests, batch-mode, command-line or CI builds (Build Profiles, GameCI, GitHub Actions, Accelerator), editor tools; or when textures import wrong or reimport every run, a scripted edit vanishes, bundles duplicate assets, a batch build ignores its defines, or CI cannot activate Unity.

Use when a Unity 6.3 game is slow or stutters: low fps, frame spikes, hitches when entering areas or on first effects, GC spikes, too many draw calls or SetPass calls, CPU vs GPU bound questions, Profiler, Profile Analyzer, Memory Profiler, Frame Debugger or Project Auditor work, GPU Resident Drawer or SRP Batcher setup, LOD and Mesh LOD, shader warm-up and variants, memory or VRAM budgets, IL2CPP and build size, or proving a fix with numbers from a player.

Use when a Unity 6.3 game targets Android or iOS: phone frame budget, overheating after 20 minutes, 'my game stutters on phones', ASTC or ETC2 textures, audio import, URP mobile settings, touch controls, on-screen joystick, UI under the notch or safe area, slow startup, ANRs, 'Android build fails', AAB, keystore signing, target API 36, Google Play upload, iOS Xcode export or archive, privacy manifest, app size, in-app purchases (IAP 5), rewarded ads (LevelPlay), ad consent.

Use when an agent drives Unity 6.3 (6000.3) on a Mac for any task: batch mode and -executeMethod jobs, a running editor (the user's GUI editor or a headless one), the Unity CLI and com.unity.pipeline, MCP servers, the Test Framework, command-line builds; when a batch run fails silently, 'Scripts have compiler errors', a capture comes back black or pink, or a result must be proven with numbers and a frame; or when a Unity brief must go to the right scenario-unity-* specialist.

Use when structuring Unity 6.3 C# code: ScriptableObject data vs runtime state, events and services, inventory, health, save and load, Input System actions and key rebinding, async with Awaitable, assembly definitions, Enter Play Mode and domain reload, .meta files, Git, Smart Merge and LFS. Also when 'my save works in the Editor but not in the build', statics keep values on the second Play, events fire twice or never, an await runs after its object died, rebinds are lost on relaunch, a renamed class loses its data, a scene merge breaks.

Use when a Unity 6.3 task involves character animation or cameras: Mixamo or mocap humanoid import and retargeting, Animator Controllers, blend trees, layers and avatar masks, root motion, foot sliding, IK and Animation Rigging, Playables, Timeline cutscenes, custom tracks and markers, Cinemachine 3 cameras, camera jitter, flipping blends or cameras hitting walls; or when clips import with no animation, a character T-poses, an idle drifts, feet slide or the head misses its aim target.

Use when building a 2D game in Unity 6.3 URP: pixel-art or HD sprite import and PPU, sprite atlases, Tilemaps, Rule Tiles and reskins, the 2D Renderer and 2D lights with normal maps, 2D animation, a platformer or top-down controller ("make a platformer controller that feels good", coyote time, jump buffer, one-way platforms, spikes), Pixel Perfect Camera, a follow or room camera, hit stop and screen shake; or when pixel art looks blurry or shimmers, tiles show seams, 2D lights do nothing or cost too much, the jump feels floaty, or the camera loses the player when falling.

Use when making or fixing particle effects and game feel in Godot 4.7: GPUParticles3D or GPUParticles2D explosion, fireball projectile with trail, impact, sparks, smoke, shockwave, ribbon trails, sub-emitters, particle collision, color curve does nothing, particles pop out or vanish, effect too heavy on mobile, CPUParticles fallback for Compatibility or web, overdraw, hit-stop, freeze frame, screen shake, juice.

Use when building or fixing game UI in Godot 4.7: main menu, settings screen, HUD (health bar, ammo, minimap frame), Control layout, containers, anchors, themes in code, 'UI scales wrong on phones', 'text too small on 4K', notch or safe area, stretch mode and aspect, gamepad or keyboard menu navigation, focus lost, input rebinding screen, localization (CSV, PO, tr_n plurals, Arabic RTL, CJK fonts, pseudolocalization), screen reader accessibility, UI scale slider, or clicks not reaching the game.

Use when writing or fixing Godot 4.7 shaders: .gdshader code (spatial, canvas_item, particles, sky, fog), VisualShader graphs built in code, stylized or toon water, dissolve or burn effects, hit flash, outlines, X-ray or portals with the stencil buffer, depth or screen-texture post-processing, global or per-instance uniforms, compute shaders and Texture2DRD, the shader baker; or when 'shader compiles but looks wrong', 'black screen from my post effect', 'my Godot 3 shader breaks', 'colors look washed out', 'first-launch shader stutter'.

Use when lighting or rendering a Godot 4.7 3D scene: pick a renderer (Forward+, Mobile, Compatibility), choose GI (SDFGI, VoxelGI, LightmapGI, reflection probes), bake lightmaps without a mouse, tune WorldEnvironment, tonemapper (AgX, ACES, Filmic), glow, fog, volumetric fog and god rays, shadows and shadow acne, quality presets for PC and phones, Compositor post effects, or when 'my scene looks flat', 'too dark indoors', 'light leaks', 'lightmap is black', 'looks different on mobile'.

Use when Godot 4.7 work must run without a mouse or at scale: batch import of hundreds of GLB props or an AI image-to-3D art drop, naming rules, import presets and post-import scripts, editor plugins, EditorScript and @tool, EditorImportPlugin, GUT or gdUnit4 tests in CI, a GitHub Actions export workflow, GDExtension basics, or a Godot MCP server; also when --import is slow, textures stay uncompressed, tests pass locally but CI fails, or an export ships test folders.

Use when a Godot game stutters, drops frames, hitches when entering new areas, overheats a phone, or must ship: profiling and Performance monitors, CPU or GPU bound, draw calls, MultiMesh, occlusion culling, LOD, shader compilation hitches, export to macOS, Windows, Linux, Steam, Android (APK, AAB, keystore), iOS (Xcode), web (itch.io, COOP/COEP headers, SharedArrayBuffer, JavaScript interop), build size budgets, demo and DLC builds, signing and notarization.

Use when a Godot 4 game goes online or co-op: host and join with ENet, WebSocket for a web build, RPCs (@rpc, rpc_id, any_peer), MultiplayerSpawner and MultiplayerSynchronizer, player authority, lobbies and login, a dedicated or headless server export, lag, rubber-banding, prediction or netfox, cheating, bandwidth, Steam, Nakama or WebRTC. Symptoms: players do not appear on the client, 'rpc node checksum failed', 'node not found' on an RPC, desync, the server build is huge, a client never connects.

Use when building gameplay systems in Godot 4.7: enemy AI that patrols, chases and attacks, state machines, behavior trees (LimboAI), NavigationAgent3D pathfinding and avoidance for 100 to 1000 enemies, 'agents stack up' or 'path is empty', hitbox and hurtbox combat, fast bullets going through walls, save and load, inventory, quests, dialogue (Dialogue Manager), input remapping, procedural dungeons, or measuring agent counts and frame time headless.

Use when an agent drives Godot 4.7 on macOS or Windows for any task: headless --script jobs, --import, --check-only, command-line exports, GUT tests, windowed screenshots, the headless editor (-e) or an MCP server into a running editor; when a run hangs or fails silently, a capture is black, Godot 3 code breaks in 4.x, 'Identifier not found', export templates are missing; or when a Godot brief (2D, 3D, shaders, VFX, UI, multiplayer, export) must go to the right scenario-godot-* specialist.

Use when adding or fixing sound in Godot 4.7: audio buses and effects, volume sliders, 'too many sounds', combat audio with hundreds of enemies, sounds clipping or distorting, 3D sound too quiet or not panning, reverb zones not working, occlusion, adaptive or interactive music (AudioStreamInteractive, layers, stingers), music loops with gaps, SFX that repeat, AudioStreamRandomizer, AudioStreamGenerator, import settings, or importing AI-generated music, SFX and voice from Scenario or ElevenLabs.

Use when structuring Godot 4.7 game code: folders, scenes and nodes, signals or an event bus autoload, custom Resources for item data, components (health, hitbox, hurtbox), an inventory, save and load, InputMap and key rebinding for keyboard, mouse and gamepad, GDScript static typing and style, or GDScript vs C#; or when code is spaghetti, a folder scan breaks in the export, a save loads wrong, the gamepad does nothing, or @onready is null.

Use when animating characters or scenes in Godot 4.7: AnimationPlayer clips and RESET, AnimationTree state machines and blend spaces built in code, Mixamo or glTF import, loop settings, BoneMap retargeting and shared animation libraries, root motion, foot sliding, foot IK with TwoBoneIK3D or custom SkeletonModifier3D, tweens, SpringArm3D cameras, cutscenes; or when a character T-poses, slides, floats, freezes mid-blend or a transition never fires.

Use when building 3D levels and worlds in Godot 4.7: third-person or FPS controller, player stuck on stairs, spring arm camera clipping, blockout with CSG, GridMap and MeshLibrary, terrain (heightmap, HeightMapShape3D, Terrain3D regions, textures, painting), scattering trees with MultiMesh, streaming a big world, procedural meshes with SurfaceTool, Jolt physics settings, importing GLB or glTF from Blender or AI generators (Scenario, Tripo, Meshy, Hitem3D), import scripts, name suffixes, model facing, collision generation, LODs.

Use when building a 2D game in Godot 4.7: make a platformer or top-down controller that feels right (coyote time, jump buffer, jump height), TileMapLayer and TileSet in code, terrains and autotiles that pick wrong tiles, a dual grid, a camera that jitters or stutters, pixel art that looks blurry or uneven, stretch and integer scaling, 2D lights and shadows, y-sort order wrong, parallax gaps, or importing AI-generated sprites and tilesets from Scenario.

Use when sculpting a stylized or cartoon character, bust, collectible or toy in ZBrush (Overwatch, Fortnite, Disney look), judging shape language (S and C curves, parallel lines, 70/30, silhouette read at a distance), exaggerating proportions on purpose, keeping stylized planes crisp through subdivision, sculpting stylized hair (chunky clumps, curve tube strands, ClayPolish), or designing a figure for toy production (articulation, wall thickness, scale).

Use when an agent sculpts organic forms in ZBrush 2026 (sculpt a head, bust or creature in ZBrush from a sphere, ZSpheres or primitives); when blocking primary and secondary forms, choosing DynaMesh, Sculptris Pro or subdivision levels, or setting ClayBuildup, Dam_Standard, Move or TrimDynamic; when using masks, polygroups, Morph Targets or layers; or when scripted strokes miss, do nothing, come out too strong or leave marks, or a re-DynaMesh does nothing or loses polygroups.

Use when a ZBrush sculpt, scan or AI-generated mesh must become production topology and files (ZRemesher and guides, the 2026 Retopo brush, reprojecting detail with Project All, rebuilding subdivision levels, UV Master or native unwrap, normal and displacement maps with Multi Map Exporter, GoZ, OBJ or FBX export, scale and axes, Decimation Master, "clean up an AI mesh in ZBrush"), or when detail is lost after ZRemesher, a map is upside down or an export arrives at the wrong size.

Use when posing a sculpt or preparing it for 3D printing in ZBrush: "pose this character", Transpose Master, TPoseMesh, Gizmo posing with masks, ZSphere rig, Proxy Pose, weapon in the hand, stretching after posing, "3D print this", 1/6 scale statue, miniature, resin or FDM, hollowing, wall thickness, drain holes, keys and pins, cutting into parts, 3D Print Hub, Scale Master, Decimation Master, STL or 3MF, size in millimeters.

Use when polypainting in ZBrush (skin color zones, fills, cavity or AO passes, Spotlight), baking polypaint to a texture or vertex color, rendering a ZBrush model with BPR or Redshift, making render passes, a turntable or portfolio shots, or when paint looks like uniform beige or clown makeup, is blurry, is hidden under a texture or in Redshift, or a render is noisy, clipped, orthographic or bruised.

Use when modeling hard surface in ZBrush 2026 (sci-fi helmet, weapon, prop, armor plates, mechanical parts, kitbash, vents, panel lines, bolts, concept to game asset), when using ZModeler, Dynamic Subdivision and creasing, Live Boolean, Knife, Clip, Slice or Trim curves, IMM, ArrayMesh, NanoMesh or Panel Loops, or when edges look razor sharp, a Make Boolean Mesh fails or leaves holes, planes look wobbly, Mirror And Weld erased an edit, or ZRemesher ruins a hard-surface part.

Use when an agent drives Maxon ZBrush 2026 for any task (sculpt in ZBrush, DynaMesh, ZRemesher, UVs, export, polypaint, posing, 3D print, clean up an AI mesh in ZBrush), when writing ZBrush Python (zbrush.commands) or ZScript, when the ZBrush bridge is not answering, a palette path or set() does nothing, a scripted stroke does not sculpt or a dialog blocks a script, or when a ZBrush result has to be judged the way a professional artist would.

Use when sculpting a realistic head, face, portrait, body or creature in ZBrush (anatomy, landmarks, proportions, "the face looks off", eyes, lips, jaw), adding skin, pores, wrinkles or reptile and dragon scales with alphas, Surface Noise, layers or morph targets, planning subdivision or HD Geometry for a film close-up, reprojecting detail, sculpting cloth folds or running Dynamics cloth, growing FiberMesh fur or hair, making horns, or judging a character sculpt the way a senior character artist would.

Use when automating ZBrush 2026: batch processing a folder of OBJ or ZTL files, a ZBrush Python script or ZScript, recording a macro to learn a palette path, the ZBrush -script command line, scripting UV Master, Decimation Master or Multi Map Exporter, exporting every SubTool, GoZ or GoB round trips with Maya or Blender, renaming SubTools, or batch reports. Also when a plugin press never returns, a dialog stalls a batch, one file kills the whole run, or GoZ updates the wrong SubTool.

Use when rigging a character, creature or prop in Maya: "rig this character", placing or orienting joints, Orient Joint doing nothing, IK/FK switch and matching, pole vector flips or elbow drift, space switching, foot roll, spline IK spine, offsetParentMatrix, blendMatrix or matrix rigging, controls and lockdown for animators, Quick Rig, HumanIK, AdvancedSkeleton or mGear, a game skeleton for Unreal or Unity, or a slow rig (parallel evaluation, profiling, GPU Override not kicking in).

Use when turning a dense sculpt, scan, ZBrush export or AI-generated mesh into animation-ready or game-ready topology in Maya without a mouse ("clean up this AI mesh", "retopo this character", Quad Draw, Retopologize), testing it deforms before rigging (bad elbow or wrist bend, lids popping through the eyes), or unwrapping UVs, cutting seams, setting texel density, mip-safe padding, UDIMs, lightmap UVs, stacking mirrored shells, or preparing a low poly and cage for baking. Keywords: edge flow, eye and mouth loops, Unfold3D, bake prep.

Use when writing or fixing Maya pipeline code in Python: mayapy batch jobs over many scenes, validating and auto-fixing scenes, FBX export for Unreal or Unity (static, skeletal, animation clips, Game Exporter), Alembic or GPU caches, USD export, stages and layers, references and namespaces, PySide6 tool windows, OpenMaya 2.0 plug-ins, or slow playback. Also when an FBX lands with wrong scale, normals, tangents or extra takes, a USD export has one frame or smoothed meshes, or one bad file kills a batch.

Use when modeling in Autodesk Maya, such as hard-surface props, weapons, vehicles, a sci-fi crate, a game-ready or SubD film model, or a character or creature base mesh, or when asked to "clean up this model" or a scene before rigging or UVs. Also for support loops vs bevels vs creases, Smart Bevel, weighted normals, hard edges, pinching or wobbly highlights, a faceted cage, flipped faces, a triangle budget, n-gons, non-manifold geometry, mirroring a half, a low poly from a high poly, or deformation-ready topology.

Use when shading an asset in Maya with Arnold: OpenPBR or aiStandardSurface materials, hooking up Substance Painter or UDIM texture sets, color spaces (sRGB, Raw, ACEScg), a normal map that looks wrong, displacement with black holes or faceting, skin SSS, chrome and metals, glass or crystal, car paint, aiStandardHair, porting Standard Surface to OpenPBR, or a lookdev turntable with chrome and gray balls. Also when textures render washed out, too dark or plastic in Arnold.

Use when lighting or rendering in Maya with Arnold: a product hero shot, a character close-up or a sequence (master and shot lighting), key, fill and rim placement, "the Arnold render is noisy" or fireflies, render settings and time budgets, AOVs, light groups and EXRs for Nuke, OIDN or noice denoising, ACES or OCIO color, renders that look flat or too dark, Render Setup layers, batch or command-line renders, or judging a lit frame like a lighting supervisor.

Use when grooming hair or fur in Maya with XGen (Interactive Groom splines or legacy descriptions): scalp hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, fur, guides, clumps, noise, parting, density maps, a fill layer, aiStandardHair shading, noisy or flickering hair renders, hair that must move (Linear Wire, nHair, Alembic caches), or a groom for Unreal (groom Alembic, cards). Also when XGen hair looks CG, clumps look uniform, the scalp shows through, or an XGen script fails.

Use when a Maya task involves simulation or procedural effects: nCloth or Nucleus (a cape, skirt, flag or garment on an animated character, cloth through the body, jittery or stretchy cloth), nParticles, Bifrost graphs (Aero smoke, dust puff, mist, fire, liquids, MPM cloth, snow, sand, "Bifrost smoke"), MASH scattering or motion graphics, sim caches (nCache, Alembic, OpenVDB, file_cache, USD) or FX delivered to lighting or a game engine (flipbook sprites).

Use when doing any Autodesk Maya task through Python or a bridge, headless or live: maya.cmds or OpenMaya 2.0 scripts, mayapy or maya.standalone batch jobs, a commandPort or MCP connection into a running Maya, "Maya 2027", validating or exporting scenes, or a maya.cmds script that fails after the 2025 to 2027 changes (PySide6, OpenPBR, renamed math nodes, removed flags). Also when a Maya model, rig, shot or render must be judged like a professional before it is called done, or a brief must be routed to the right Maya specialist.

Use when skinning a character in Maya ("bind skin", "fix the weights", weight painting, Skin Tools or ngSkinTools layers), when deformation looks wrong (pinching, candy-wrapper wrist, collapsing elbow or shoulder, volume loss, clothes poking through), when mirroring, copying or capping skin weights for Unreal or Unity, building blend shapes, corrective shapes or pose space deformation (Pose Editor on IK-driven joints), a face rig with shapes or joints, multiple skinClusters, Delta Mush or the ML Deformer, or running a range-of-motion deformation test.

Use when animating a character or prop in Maya through Python: a walk or run cycle, a jump or landing, a heavy lift, throw or punch, an acting or dialogue shot, lip sync, eye darts and blinks, stepped blocking, splining, polish, Graph Editor tangents, animation layers, mocap cleanup or retargeting, game clips and root motion, or reviewing a playblast. Also when motion looks floaty, weightless, mushy, poppy, posey, sliding or chattery, or feet slap or skate.

Use when UV unwrapping, placing seams, straightening or packing UVs, setting texel density, laying out UDIMs or mirrored UVs, or baking normal, AO, curvature, ID or displacement maps from a sculpt or high poly onto a low poly or retopo in Blender, including Multires bakes. Also when a bake has black or inverted patches, flat areas, cracks, seams, wavy lines or AO ghosts, bpy.ops.object.bake returns CANCELED, or uv.unwrap silently fails.

Use when texturing, shading or look-developing in Blender: building a PBR material from a texture set, displacement, procedural materials, edge wear, dirt, grime, color variation, decals, box or triplanar mapping on meshes without UVs, stylized character skin (subsurface, pores), eyes and cornea, hand-painted stylized textures, texture painting or painting masks headless. Also when a material looks plastic, CG, waxy or blown out, color spaces are wrong, or EEVEE and Cycles disagree.

Use when sculpting in Blender through Python: sculpt a head, face or bust, a stylized or cartoon character, a creature or a realistic portrait; block out from primitives; cut planes, a jaw or gonial angle, cheekbones; fix a jaw or face that looks like a ball or balloon; stylized hair clumps; eyelids; an expression or smirk; plan remesh or multires resolution; reproduce Clay Strips, Crease, Draw Sharp, Scrape, Grab or mask moves without a tablet; final clay renders; or when a sculpt operator crashes headless.

Use when rigging a character, creature or prop in Blender through Python: "rig this character", Rigify metarig fitting or generation errors, automatic weights or "Bone Heat Weighting failed", weight painting fixes, clothes that do not follow, IK/FK switch, foot roll, twist bones, drivers and custom properties, corrective shape keys, a stylized face rig, a mechanical or hard-surface rig, or testing how a rig deforms.

Use when turning a dense sculpt, scan or AI-generated mesh into clean topology in Blender, for animation, subdivision or a game low poly with a triangle budget. Also when choosing between QuadriFlow or voxel remesh and manual retopo, placing loops around eyes, mouth and joints, deciding pole placement, setting up a Shrinkwrap cage, fixing volume loss after subdivision, preparing a low poly for baking, or auditing topology for spirals, 6-poles and triangles. Keywords: retopo, retopology, quad remesh, clean up an AI mesh, edge flow, low poly, bake prep.

Use when turning a script or story into previs, layout, storyboards or an animatic in Blender: beats to shot list, camera and lens per shot, staging, camera height, 180-degree rule, screen direction, shot sizes, when to cut, camera moves, timing stills in the Video Sequencer, markers bound to cameras, Story Tools, Grease Pencil or 2D/3D hybrid boards. Also when an animatic shows the wrong frame, blocking keys are not stepped, Rigify operators are missing, or viewport render fails headless.

Use when lighting, rendering or compositing in Blender: light a character, product or hero shot, interior at dusk or night, three-point or motivated lighting, sun and sky, HDRI, EEVEE vs Cycles settings, light leaks or noise, flat or muddy renders, subject not standing out, AgX/ACES color management, render passes, EXR, light groups, bloom and vignette in the 5.x compositor, rule of thirds and value checks, toon/NPR looks, or judging a render like a lighter.