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Terms used for Character Rigger

March 21, 2013 0 comments
Did you know!?

Character Rigging is the most confusing and misunderstood process in 3D animation pipeline!

It goes by many names:

i. Character Setup
ii. Character Rigging
iii. Character Enveloping
iv. Character Puppeting
v. Character Technical Director (TD)
vi. Technical Artist
vii. Technical Animator 
viii. Creature Technical Director (TD)

GTC 2013: Face Works

March 20, 2013 0 comments

Advance Real Time Character Performance demo by NVIDIA Co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang featuring Face Works technology running on the GeForce GTX TITAN GPU to create realistic simulation of human face. There is still a long way to go pass the Uncanny Valley but this looks promising!

Student Animation Snippet Exercise

March 20, 2013 0 comments

The
principles of animation have been laid down by Disney Animators Frank
Thomas and Ollie Johnston in the “Illusion of life ” in 1981.

Some more concepts have been added over the years and one of the most
important addition, or clarification, is the concept of “weight shift”.

Here is a quick animation snippet by student Rajson Shakya.


Overlapping
Action is another of the cornerstones of animation. By overlapping the
actions of a characters’ body, hair, tail, clothing or for this
exercise, the arm; your animation will feel more fluid and life-like!

Here is a quick animation snippet by student Niroj Karmacharya.

To learn like Rajson and Niroj, apply to Puppeteer Lounge!

facerig test by erazerhead

March 20, 2013 0 comments

Check out the face rig test by erazerhead! Cool stuff. It would have been even better if he had screen captured it 🙂