Old but a great resource for anatomy and deformation.
Muscle
Maya Muscle Rig by Naweed Khan
Puppeteer Lounge student Naweed Khan
demonstrates muscular deformation to maintain volume and get quick
squash and stretch behavior!
Naweed is a very enthusiastic person and always keen to learn and come up with good looking works. I wish him the very best and thank him for choosing to learn from us at Puppeteer Lounge.
Looking forward to hear and see great stuffs from him in the near future 🙂
Muscle setup student reel by Damien VIE
Puppeteer Lounge‘s student Damien VIE demonstrates muscle setup on TEJO!
If you would like to learn like Damien, apply here!
1999 LOTR VR TROLL
Check out the demo of CGI live action integration for the Troll character in LOTR by John Sheils.
TEJO gets a Facelift!
TEJO gets a facelift!
TEJO, who features in our muscle and deformation workshops gets upgraded with more skin, muscle details and a “loincloth”! The new sculpt and maps combined with an a dynamic muscle based deformation results in more believable and hyper-realistic character setup!
More Info on Puppeteer Lounge’s Rigging Workshop!
Moving anatomy reference- shoulders
Check out the reference footage of Human shoulder movement (rolls, flexes) by Paul smith.
Muscles update by Paul smith
Great deformation!
Maya tutorial: Rigging a muscle system
Want to create a cool looking muscle rig? Check out this tutorial on rigging a muscle system! Cool stuff.
Muscles Deformation Test by Giuseppe Chisari
Nice muscle deformation test using Maya muscle and nCloth by Giuseppe Chisari.
CGI VFX Behind The Scenes HD: The Amazing Spider Man High School Fight by Sony Pictures Imageworks
Check out this behind the scene footage from
the movie “The Amazing Spider Man”. See how the artist at Sony Pictures
Imageworks created realistic reptilian based skin sliding, collision
and musculature for believable character deformation and dynamics.