Cool Stuffs

Character Animation Tool – Fabric Engine

Character Animation Tool from Fabric Engine on Vimeo.

Check out the Character Animation Tool by Fabric Engine going over advance dynamic character rigging to simulate proper muscle behavior and collision. Pretty interesting stuff 🙂

Fabric Engine enables developers to overcome the performance constraints of scripted languages like JavaScript and Ruby without needing to resort to compiled languages like C++. It does this by extending these languages so that they can be used to create multi-threaded, compiled code that can be run on the web server or in the browser.

Martin Bird

Check out this CG Society post by Jonny Gorden where he goes over sharing the tips and techniques he implemented on setting up the bird rig shown above using Lightwave 🙂

Swell Dynamics

Interesting and cool tool demo on creating/simulating an ocean wave! Reminds me of “Surf’s Up” movie 🙂

iPad GUI with 3DSMAX

Check out this cool test video by Iker showing an ipad touch screen GUI to control the facial rig in 3dsMax. Iker mentions that he used TouchOSC and Motion Capture controllers on 3DSMAX to create an interface that allows the user to set expressions on the character using an iPad!