Rigging Workshop

Rigging Workshop 2 Bonus Materials

February 14, 2015 0 comments

Puppeteer Lounge Rigging Workshop 2 (Cartoon Character Setup) gets even better
with bonus materials that goes over Soft IK, Automated Pivot Control, IK
– FK snapping, Space Switching and Smear Controls! All of these
features can be added upon existing rigs; making the rigs more awesome 🙂

Student Feedback:

Edgar Jardim (Venezuela) – I am currently doing rigging workshop 2 and it’s fantastic the amount of topics it covers, it’s full of neat tricks to learn and implement on your own cartoon characters and the tutor explains every step of the process in great detail I totally recommend it. I’ll be doing workshop 3 after I finish this one. 

Example ~ Rigging Workshop (Blendshape Combination System)

January 27, 2015 0 comments
Example ~ Rigging Workshop (Blendshape Combination System) with instructor Suchan Raj Bajracharya from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

I had some great time teaching Blendshape Combination System and it’s workflow on creating a realistic facial rig during by teaching process at Puppeteer Lounge. The BCS toolset is a gem of a tool, highly recommended for those into feature film quality production.

You can learn how to setup your very own cool facial rig using BCS with me at Puppeteer Lounge. For more info click here!

Updated Quadruped Workshop with Bobby

January 18, 2015 0 comments

Puppeteer Lounge have an updated quadruped setup workshop
where we go over rigging a lovely cartoon dog model. The workshop
consists of 8 classes or approximately 8 hours of lecture time (Body and
facial included)!

The character modeling is done by our
very talented student Edgar Jardim who is currently busy with Rigging
Workshop 2. Special thanks to Edgar for the model and request for the
new workshop.

BTW the models name is Bobby and can be used by our animation students in their assignments too 🙂

If you are interested to learn character setup, apply here: https://www.puppeteerlounge.com/apply
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Blendshape Combination System (Facial Setup)

December 11, 2014 0 comments
Blendshape Combination System (Facial Setup) from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Facial rig comparison between Standard
Blendshape vs Blendshape Combination System (BCS) by Daniel Pook-Kolb (stargrav.com/bcs.php).
With BCS you can create, combine (Combination-Sculpting) multitude of
facial expression with flexible inbetweening and interpolation to
simulate realistic skin behavior.

You can learn to setup a high-end feature quality facial rig using BCS toolset at Puppeteer Lounge. ( puppeteerlounge.com/rigging-workshop)

Apply here to learn: puppeteerlounge.com/apply
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P.S. The Gollum character by Weta Digital was based on such a system
for facial articulation. BCS is free for educational purposes.

Driven Wrinkle Maps by Damien VIE

October 30, 2014 0 comments

Here is an image by one of my talented student
Damien VIE showing the shading network to generate automated (driven)
wrinkle map for a characters brow and face (The entire network is pretty
big!). The maps can be projected real-time in the viewport with normal
maps (used in game) or switch to dynamic displacement maps for realistic
film quality render.

At Puppeteer Lounge, we constantly
challenge our students to come up with new and better ideas out of many
different possibilities.

Click here to learn more about rigging workshops at Puppeteer Lounge.

Check out this rigging reel by Damien to see the driven wrinkle maps in action (2:20)

DemoReel 2014 – Damien VIE – TD Rigger – Part 1: Rigging from VIE Damien on Vimeo.