Facial rig animation experiment with extreme snappy cartoon poses. Good experiment and style.
The Champ – facial rig experiment
Facial rig animation experiment with extreme snappy cartoon poses. Good experiment and style.
Rig
Facial rig animation experiment with extreme snappy cartoon poses. Good experiment and style.
Personal Project – Marco Giordano Character TD
Personal Project – Marco Giordano. Tons of resources and tips & tricks on character rigging and tools! Check it out.
MAYA TUTORIAL : build a poseReader with maya nodes
Brilliant tutorial by Marco Giordano going over how we can create a custom Pose Reader.
You can download the scene files here.
Puppeteer Lounge ~ How it Works!
Want to know what Puppeteer Lounge is all about!? Well here is a sneak peek on how it all works! Enjoy 🙂
Rabbit by Gerardo Castellanos
Rabbit rig and animation by gerardo castellanos.
Free Rig – Flour Sack (2013)
Floor sack rig by Wesley Schneider. Go grab it and start animating!
Terms used for Character Rigger
Did you know!?
v. Character Technical Director (TD)
vi. Technical Artist
vii. Technical Animator
viii. Creature Technical Director (TD)
Character Rigging is the most confusing and misunderstood process in 3D animation pipeline!
It goes by many names:
i. Character Setup
ii. Character Rigging
iii. Character Enveloping
iv. Character Puppeting
v. Character Technical Director (TD)
vi. Technical Artist
vii. Technical Animator
viii. Creature Technical Director (TD)
Houdini sparrow rig
Interesting Bird rig with procedural wing animation done in Houdini by Valerio Di Napoli.
Rigging & Python Programing Instructor ~ David Vega
Meet David Vega!
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David graduated from the Full Sail University in Character Rigging and Scripting. He is currently a Character TD at Durga Digital ~ Red Giant Studios and Burning Dog. Previously he worked as a Rigger and Techincal Artist at LLC and ESPN. He specializes in Character Rigging, Dynamics, MEL and Python scripting.
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I would like to personally welcome him into this new and exciting venture 🙂
“Welcome aboard David!”
MG_toolsLite and PRO : custom nodes for maya to enhance your rigs 1.1.0 (maya plugin)
Amazing share by Marco Giordano. Check out his custom tools for character rigging in Maya. Head over to Creative Crash to download it!
Great share Marco my friend! 😉
Source code on github!