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“Ajar” Roars!

HRFS ~ Ajar Roars! from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.
Check out this short clip on Hyper Real Facial Setup. This workshop is one of the mini-workshops at Puppeteer Lounge where we build a photo-realistic facial rig for films based on facial sculpts and musculo-skeletal deformation!

For more information on Puppeteer Lounge’s rigging workshops, click here!

You can watch the facial rig demonstration below!


HRFS ~ Facial Rig Demo from Suchan Bajracharya on Vimeo.

Puppeteer Lounge Student Feedback ~ Naweed Khan

One of my student at Puppeteer Lounge, Naweed Khan from United Kingdom shares his thoughts about us:

“My experience with puppeteer lounge was highly valuable. Taking the advanced workshop course was a great learning experience, where I developed and improved my rigging skills to a stronger and more refined level. The tasks were well thought out to encompass a wide variety of subjects that cover what is expected of a character TD in the industry. Suchan also provided good productive and encouranging feedback that helped me produce strong material for my rigging reel.”

Puppeteer Lounge Student Feedback by Lenin Garcia


Lenin Garcia (Puerto Rico)

The experience of learning rigging and scripting was
amazing. The mentor was very patient and posses great knowledge of all the
technical and artistic aspect of the rigging process. I feel ready to tackle
any challenge that will come in future projects.

Thank you for choosing to learn from us and I wish you the very best for your bright career 🙂

Lost In Nazca (GAME) ~ Rig & Animation Reel

Rigging and animation reel featuring the in-game characters from the upcoming game “Lost In Nazca” by 5th Space Studios. We at Puppeteer Lounge have collaborated with 5th Space Studios creating rigs and animation
for the in-game characters and props, most of which are featured in this
video.

Just to let you know, the Executive Producer and Director at 5th Space Studios, Dave Cardwell is a founding member and creator of “Skymatter”, proprietary sculpting tool of Weta Digital later sold to Autodesk and known as “MudBox”! Dave won the Science and Technical award from the Academy.

We are working hard to finish the game…

Enjoy! The music is from the game 🙂

For projects, visit us at Puppeteer Lounge!

Student Feedback ~ Frank Guthrie

We are always happy to hear good stuffs from our students!

Frank Guthrie (USA) ~ “…When one of my clients asked for the model I designed and modeled for them to be “animation-ready,” I discovered how rusty my rigging skills were… Puppeteer Lounge got me up and running in a matter of days! something other schools would have taken weeks, if not months and with ridiculous expense. Suchan’s experience, knowledge and – specially with me, patiences, made this whole process not only easy to understand, but most important… enjoyable! My client not only was impressed with the rigging, but has commissioned more characters for his project. I recommend Puppeteer Lounge to anyone who wants to get up and running with rigging quickly and with confidence…”

Feel free to check out Frank’s website. He is exceptionally good at sculpting and character animation! Thank you for choosing to learn from us Frank 🙂

I am really looking forward for some awesome facial rigs by Frank!