I am pleased to present “BallBot”, the latest character joining the fleet of Puppeteer Lounge rigging workshopand featuring in the upcoming “Transformer Setup Workshop”. You must have checked out the original concept art of the character a little while back. The turntable video features a WIP model of BallBot. I have been constantly updating the model and the design to function a believable transformation making sure to match the the original design and overcoming the challenges of the technical stuffs. Stay tuned for a test animation or a teaser featuring BallBot coming to life soOn 🙂
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JUMP
The style and action is all that defines this short. Nice one!
MEL Script & Expression KEYBOARD
Nice experimentation of using MEL & Expression to create a rippling keyboard procedural animation.
How to Train Your Dragon – Live Projections
Beautiful live theatrical show based on the film “How To Train Your Dragon.”
Jimmy’s Postcard
You must all be familiar with Jimmy Gunawan and all the experimental fun stuff he does and shares at his blog.
Well, he recently completed his course in advance character rigging workshop from Puppeteer Lounge! He sent us this digital postcard all the way from Sydney, Australia. We want to wish him all the very best in his endeavers and career! ~ Namaste Jimmy 😉
Below you can browse through his online libraries!
http://about.me/jimmygunawan/bio
http://www.theloop.com.au/enzyme/resume
http://blendersushi.blogspot.com.au
http://houdoodles.blogspot.com.au
http://mayaspiral.blogspot.com.au
http://puppetar.blogspot.com.au
https://vimeo.com/enzym
Assassin’s Creed Meets Parkour in Real Life
This is really amazing stuff! Just amazing how flexible and acrobatic this guy is.
A good resource for body mechanics study as well.
Below is the making.
PLEASE DON’T TRY THIS!
Making of TFFOL + Character rig in action
Rigging and compositing reel by David Lance featuring procedural animation and live action integration. The character is spooky with a bunch of fingers!
l’Ecorché – Classical Anatomy for Artists: Anatomy App
Check out this video demo of an anatomy app for artist. This is really great resource 🙂
http://md3dinc.com
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1397037025/lecorche-classical-anatomy-for-artists
Rigging Demo Reel Joan Martinez
Rigging reel featuring a wide range of cartoony characters and props by Joan Martinez.
SOuP Development ~ Peter & Jimmy
Check out some awesome examples featured at SOuP development by Peter Shipkov! Tons of Houdini like features in Maya. The really cool stuff is that Peter Shipkov just created Tension BlendShape SOuP node and it now has been added to SOuP Toolbox!
My awesome regards to
Peter Shipkov and of course Jimmy Gunawan, one of my brilliant student for sharing with us. Feel free to check out Jimmy’s blog for awesome resources and his crazy experiments 🙂
Here is Jimmy’s latest post on implementing the Tension BlendShape SOuP node into “Maka” which features in Puppeteer Lounge facial rigging workshop. Below is the video demo! He has done a really nice experiment.
