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Animation Resource ~ Walk-Cycle

October 8, 2013 0 comments
Some of the wonderful resources on  animating a Character Walk-Cycle. Feel free to browse through all of them before you get started! Great stuff 🙂


A real time demo of how to approach animating a basic 3D walk cycle using Maya!   
Walk-Cycle tutorial at Angry Animator:

In-depth Walk Cycle tutorial by Francis Jasmin:
First step guides on creating a Walk-Cycle emphasizing on walks, runs, animation principles like Anticipation, use of the right tools, work flow by Michael Berenstein:

Student Feedback ~ Charles Wardlaw (USA)

October 6, 2013 0 comments
Puppeteer Lounge‘s student Charles Wardlaw from USA shares his opinions regarding his experience with us:

The fact that you guys really work to help out working professionals isn’t something I’ll forget. I’ve been recommending you to others and I’ll continue to do so in the future.

Thank you Charles! We wish you the very best on your endeavors and your studio, Skeletal Studios 🙂

ABBY – Monsters

October 3, 2013 0 comments

Check out MAGNITUDE’s new animated music promo directed by Pooya Abbasian. MAGNITUDE is also producing their upcoming short film “La-Ritournelle” which is directed by Reza Dolatabadi. Puppeteer Lounge is proud to be collaborating with the team at MAGNITUDE on their upcoming short film “La-Ritournelle”.

We would like to congratulate the MAGNITUDE team for their latest work 🙂

2013 – Implicit Skinning: Real-Time Skin Deformation with Contact Modeling

October 3, 2013 0 comments

Linear blending has been the primary choice of deformation for many years now. Then comes the Dual Quaternions system, which does preserve volume but deformation often results with bulging and in-appropriate deformation. Check out the Implicit Skinning, which as seen in this demo is a real-time solution to preserve not just volume but also simulate skin contact. Great stuff!

Plugin and Nodal DemoReel

October 3, 2013 0 comments

Check out these amazing array of tools by Hans Godard. Check out these amazing array of tools by Hans Godard. It’s not just maths but more like technical creativity at it’s best. Very cool! Very cool!

Check out his rigging demo reel below.