Nice fleshy eye setup by Paul smith!
Rig Demo
Character Rig Test ~ Guido Salimbeni
Cool cartoony character rig test by Guido Salimbeni who is one of my student at Puppeteer Lounge
Bird-test ~ Khalid Al-Muharraqi
Bird animation test breakdown by Khalid Al-Muharraqi. This is by far one of the best bird animation test I have seen!
Dog Rig ~ Victor Vinyal
Check out this cool dog rig demo by Victor Vinyals featuring some really nice deformation for highly exaggerated poses. The demo also features advance rig features such as reverse spine and space switching ability!
Wasim Khan-CharacterTD-Reel2011
Wonderful rig demo by Wasim Khan featuring pretty cool modular rigging system and deformation. I really enjoyed the facial demo as well and finally the soft IK stuff at the end is pretty sweet!
Tank Physics Test 1 – mdavidson
This is pretty cool setup by mdavidson. The rigger mentions he applied some 1000 bones working together to get this vehicle moving in realtime!
Demo of in-game Parachute and breakdown
Check out this simple yet smart rigging of an in-game parachute prop using nCloth dynamics by Mathias Røyrvik!
Spiderman 3 Muscle and Skin Musculoskeletal Skinning ~ Eric Miller
The video showcases advance volume preserving deformation based on musculoskeletal pose space shape skinning system by Eric Miller.
“The core of the system used procedurally generated nurbs muscle primitives that were user controllable, had dynamic animation abilities, and input to deform geometry which was then layered with a non-linear blend-skinning algorithm that included coupling with radial basis function based pose space deformations, skin relaxation, and skin and fat jiggle. The system was used on Beowulf, Ghost Rider, Spiderman 3 and other productions.”
Eric mentions that this software was written before “Maya Muscle” and features superior functions which judging by the result looks awesome! None the less I really enjoyed the video and would surely love to try it out 😉
P.S. Awesome stuff Eric 😀
2011 Vanessa Thieffry Rigging and fur Demo on a Cartoon Character
Nice rigging reel by Vanessa Thieffry showcasing some rig features as well as applying hair dynamic fur on a stylized bee character 🙂
Mongrel Rig Demo
Check out the character rigging demo-reel by Milan Kolar. The deformation are pretty good!