Do you know Emily? You must have checked out her realistic motion
capture performance by Image Metrics! You can now download her facial rig and some other
awesome rigs from Faceware Facial Rig Library completely free. Go check it out π
P.S. This is a great resource. Special thanks to Faceware Team for sharing it out!
Wonderful rig demo by Wasim Khan featuring pretty cool modular rigging system and deformation. I really enjoyed the facial demo as well and finally the soft IK stuff at the end is pretty sweet!
Launching this logo animation is a great achievement for the entire Puppeteer Lounge family because we have now taken a big step into the
exciting world of animation by providing both online training as well
as working as a full featured animation house.
The video showcases advance volume preserving deformation based on musculoskeletal pose space shape skinning system by Eric Miller.
“The core of the system used procedurally generated nurbs muscle primitives that were user controllable, had dynamic animation abilities, and input to deform geometry which was then layered with a non-linear blend-skinning algorithm that included coupling with radial basis function based pose space deformations, skin relaxation, and skin and fat jiggle. The system was used on Beowulf, Ghost Rider, Spiderman 3 and other productions.”
Eric mentions that this software was written before “Maya Muscle” and features superior functions which judging by the result looks awesome! None the less I really enjoyed the video and would surely love to try it out π