Latest rigging reel by David Brooks showcasing some cool tools and rig features applied on characters for “Pirates : Band of Misfits” by Aardman Animation. He have showcased wonderful and useful rig features and tool kit which allows the facial expressions to be extracted for stop motion puppetry!
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2011 Vanessa Thieffry Rigging and fur Demo on a Cartoon Character
Nice rigging reel by Vanessa Thieffry showcasing some rig features as well as applying hair dynamic fur on a stylized bee character 🙂
Modifying Rigged Characters for Animation
Learn how to modify and spice up the character rigs for animation by Jason Fittipaldi. You can find the freshSkin script from the thread post over at Tech Artist by Tyler Hurd 🙂
MOTEL 6 “Metamorphosis”
Cool concept and style!
Cutting Edge Loops – First steps in Box modelling
Confusion on placing edge loops? Check out this video for some useful tips by Glen Southern!
Mongrel Rig Demo
Check out the character rigging demo-reel by Milan Kolar. The deformation are pretty good!
Chicken Head
Fellow riggers and animators, a good reference for so called CHICKEN HEAD 😀
Character Design Blog
Check out Character Design Blog for some awesome character designs, reference and goodies!
Boo Bass (Monsters, Inc. Remix)
Cool and clever editing using sounds from Disney Pixar’s ‘Monsters, Inc.’!
Tools Demo by Jeroen
Nice tool demo showing a cool feather toolkit by Jeroen.