Rig Tips

Useful Muscle Reference

February 16, 2012 0 comments

CG Papers and Abstracts Dealing with Muscles / Skin Deformation by Christopher Evans: http://chrisevans3d.com/reference.htm

Basic concepts behind the muscle rigs by Peter Shipkov : http://petershipkov.com/development/muscles/tutorial.htm

Some resource and reference video on muscular anatomy :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WFiE-jDZ0g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=Xu4Htf2Ds9w&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcZ8OVTsi7E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmOxpS18KOQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Krn9dIabk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Rayocdgyc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSelrhJzKJ4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNnZDGihJDs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os2zuEuGCIw&feature=related

Wire deformer for jaw deformation

February 7, 2012 0 comments

Mr. Marco Giordano goes over sharing some tips and tricks on using wire deformer. Wire tools can be a very powerful medium to create a fast and customizable rigs.

Here is another wonderful tutorial on using nurbs curve as an influence object to drive facial expression http://www.creativecrash.com/tutorials/facial-animation-rig-for-delgo 🙂

Martin Bird

January 19, 2012 0 comments

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 🙂

Growing Vine Rig Tutorial

January 12, 2012 0 comments

Simple and efficient way to setup a growing vine rig by Jordan Blit. He has done a very good job of explaining the tips and techniques of using polySplitRing, clamp, condition nodes and wire deformer to create a simple vine rig to start off with. Check it out!

Bird Rigs

January 7, 2012 0 comments

I checked this bird rigging reel a little while back and find these setups to be really intuitive and pretty straight forward; flexible controls producing proper articulation by Rebecca Lórien. You can see that the rigger has used a blend of fanning joints placed in anatomically correct position and spline based control/deformation, somewhat similar to or look alike Paule Neale’s Setup for the wing and feather system to achieve believable wing spreading, folding and flapping articulation.

Bird Wing Rig Test ~ Nicolas Rossi

January 4, 2012 0 comments

A video demo for Bird Setup Workshop (The pupPetEEr’s Lounge) by Nicolas Rossi where he demonstrated some of the techniques he implemented to achieve a better wing and feather deformation.

During the online lecture session, we are always trying to figure out new and better ideas, tips and techniques to figure out more efficient rigging solution. It’s fun and always exciting to learn new stuffs and troubleshoot at the same time 🙂

Reverse foot rolll with maya nodes

December 27, 2011 0 comments

Check out this rigging tutorial by Marco on setting up a reverse foot setup using maya nodes unlink using traditional set-driven keys or expression! Kinda long video but he did a good job explaining 😉