To achieve realistic deformations a clean and anatomically correct skeletal base is important. In this post Puppeteer Lounge alumnus Francesco Gioia goes over setting up a complex scapula setup for muscle simulation.
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10 Years of training and educating to bring the CGI Puppets to Life! 🥳
Love, Deaths & Robots (Volume 3)
Love, Death & Robots (My top 3 pick)
1. Jibaro (A beautiful poetry in action! Greed vs Love!!)
2. Bad Travelling (Spirit of a true leader!)
3. Swarm (Complexity of Simplicity!)
Chubby Bear: Let’s go Fishing!
Character Articulation through Profile Curves
Character Articulation through Profile Curves from Pixar Graphics on Vimeo.
A new approach by Pixar Graphics for character articulation that produces detail-preserving deformations fully controlled by 3D curves that profile the deforming surface.
ZIVA VFX Muscle Setup by Mohammad Dorgham | Student Demo Reel
ZIVA VFX Quadruped Setup by Puppeteer Lounge student Mohammad Dorgham. Assignment for ZIVA VFX Hyper Real Quadruped Setup training workshop.
Variable foot
Variable foot from Armin Halac on Vimeo.
Variable foot setup by Armin Halac. Nice approach!
ZIVA VFX Muscle Setup by Sanal Deep | Student Demo Reel
ZIVA VFX Quadruped Setup by Puppeteer Lounge student Sanal Deep. Assignment for ZIVA VFX Hyper Real Quadruped Setup training workshop. Well done Sanal!
KiNG – Facial Rig – DemoN
KiNG – Facial Rig – Demo from The Beast Makers on Vimeo.
Animal facial rig demo by The Beast Makers.
Grizzly Asset I Anatomy Model – Rig – Simulation Cache
For those of you learning ZIVA VFX here is a really nice digital asset by Nicolas MOREL to get started with!