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Looney Tunes Rigging Reel by Josh Carey

September 29, 2011 0 comments

Josh Carey, Head of Rigging at Reel FX Creative Studios and co-founder of Rigging Dojo, has made an awesome, eye popping Rigging Demo Reel for Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, two of the most popular Looney Tunes characters of all times. Really loved how the 2D cartoony style has been brought to life on to 3D platform!
This was Reel FX’s submission to the VES Awards for Best Overall Achievement in an Animated Short. Josh Carey was responsible for Supervising all Rigging on the Project as well as doing several of the Rigs, Tools, and Workflows needed to achieve the Crazy Looney Tunes Character Rigs.

Mini-Course Mentoring @ Rigging Dojo!

September 28, 2011 0 comments

Teaching is truly another form of learning for me! Recently I conducted a little mini course at Rigging Dojo, sharing some of the ideas, tips and techniques for creating a Dynamic Rig! During this time, I was very pleased after receiving all those cool feedback from the students. I would like to thank Brad “The Founder of Rigging Dojo” and the entire Rigging Dojo team including the awesome students for this wonderful interactive opportunity. I really had a wonderful time 🙂

Amazing Moves!

September 26, 2011 0 comments

I had to post this; such awesome robot dance moves! This guy is amazing. I am thinking how hard will be to actually do an animation similar to this including the character setup 😉

Maya/Rigging: Dealing with Double Tranforms

September 23, 2011 0 comments

Sometimes double transforms can trip you up right out of the box, sometimes they don’t become apparent until you try to “package” your rig under some Master Control node. This video talks about some common situations where you’ll find these issues and some simple fixes to deal with them. A video by Zeth Willie!

Spaceman!

September 23, 2011 0 comments

What does it feel like to fly over Planet Earth! Notice the city lights and the lightning thunder.

Dynamic Goodness #101

September 21, 2011 0 comments

Here are some dynamic goodness worth sharing! Check out the video tutorial on creating hair system based dynamic rig 🙂

Cheers

Meet Höbö!

September 20, 2011 0 comments

Look at this, simple, smart, bouncy, cartoony … fun to play with character rig named Höbö! I just checked it out and this looks sweet, seems like a comeback of Barbapapa! The character is designed, modelled by Ozan Civit rigged by Gökalp Gönen! Höbö is recruited by Animation Scout founder Ugur Ulvi Yetiskin.

TEJO ~ Muscle Simulation

September 17, 2011 0 comments

A little while I posted a link about a WIP image of  TEJO rig! Now here it is, the beast is finally alive. Muscle simulation done using Maya Muscle. Animation was done by Manish Shakya, currently graduating from Animation Mentor! Cheers 🙂