Cool Stuffs

Rebuild Blendshape Node 1.0.0 (maya script)

April 19, 2014 0 comments
Ever been stuck with blendshapes while working
with connecting SDK or shuffling around… well here is a real life
saver script by Jay Grenier!

The script works by deleting all unnecessary connection from blendshape node except the one you manually selected from the stack! Check it out 🙂

Great thanks to Jay!

Venturing into the world of BLENDER

April 4, 2014 0 comments
What do you folks think about BLENDER? I have been taking a look into it
as an alternative for small projects and I have to say, despite
being open source it can be a serious competitor to more high end
industry standard software. For this reason, we at Puppeteer Lounge have been thinking of
contributing to the Blender Nation by creating Training Workshops
specifically geared towards Blender. For more about Blender goodness, do
consult with Jimmy Gunawan. He has been exploring BLENDER for a while now and he has a great blog. He is a potential candidate for BLENDER training! I hope he lands as an animator for the BLENDER open movie: GOOSEBERRY! Speaking of GOOSEBERRY I would like to encourage every one to support Blender Nation’s Open Feature Movie, GOOSEBERRY! For more about the movie, click here.


Check out this teaser shot from GOOSEBERRY! Looks stunning 🙂


Project Gooseberry Teaser Caterpillar Shot (Full) from Pataz Studio on Vimeo.

Computational Design of Mechanical Characters

March 29, 2014 0 comments

heck out this research video on Computational Design of Mechanical Characters by Disney Research Lab.

The trick really lies in the “curves” to generate procedural movement of these mechanical characters or the Animatronix!