I find this little script really handy. It’s coded by a good friend of mine, Jay Grenier. The script is used to zero out or reset all the keyable attributes on the channel box. Check it out here!
Zero Out Selected Controllers
Tools
CORAL app
This is really cool. An open source app for making your own tools by interfacing with C++
“Coral is a new kind of 3d software that is not designed to solve a predefined set of problems, instead it gives you simple building blocks to create your own effects and pipeline solutions.”
Alfred Auto Facial Rigging Setup Tool
An in-house tool for facial rigging developed by Alfred Imageworks for there work Freestyle2 The Movie. Simple setup with intuitive joystick based controllers rigged in a matter of minutes; implemented for games 🙂
Check it out!
Maya UI Layout Elements Codes
Layouts determine how all the UI elements in a window should be placed. All menus and windows you see in Maya are created in MEL using specific UI commands such as layout, slider, field, button, etc!
There should be many cases when you must be wondering or getting frustrated to figure out the right UI element or layout? For this reason Matt created a really useful resource on documentation for UI elements so that we can pick the right one without much of a hassle. Click Here for the PDF documentation! Here is the original post from Tech-Artist.org.
Also check out this documentation on creating MEL UI Layouts. Useful resource for UI creation. 🙂
Tracker system by Igor Stefanovic
Technical study of a realistic hand. The setup is based on tracker system by Igor Stefanovic currently working as a Character TD at DreamWorks Animation. Below you can check out the demo on implementation of the tracker tool on a full body setup.
This setup seems to be different from the traditional corrective shape, pose-space deformation or muscle based deformation. It seems like the setup is a bit like an intelligent set driven key (kind of) or some history dependent math connection applied on individual joints or controller binded to individual mesh component for smooth fleshy and realistic articulation. This is simply a really big milestone on rigging tools for realistic deformation. A good share by Igor, awesome job and deserves two thumbs up!
dpAutoRigSystem v2.0 by Danilo Pinheiro
Here is a nice demo on a freeware python based modular auto rigging tool by my friend Danilo Pinheiro on creating customizable rig. Support him by using, troubleshooting, feed-backing and mentioning the tool and his works!
You can download the tool from his blog!
SRB ~ Eye Factory “Grab It, Cheers”
Hey Folks,
Just uploaded a little tool for everyone to play with. The name goes “Eye Factory”, yes “Eye Factory” for creating a quick, intuitive eye/eyelid rig based on joints. Well, the tool won’t skin the geometry so, you will have to work out on a good skinning for proper deformation. Once the tool runs, it’s just a matter of connecting the attributes with a nice UI of your own, and walla you are done with a fairly realistic, could be cartoony looking eye setup with automated fleshy eye features, intuitive – regional eye blinking and more. You can always dig in and see what’s going underneath the hood. Fairly simple little tool, test it, try it, share it and like it … Cheers 🙂
Below is an image showing some important guideline for using this tool :
You can download the tool from CreativeCrash. Click here for the link!
If you feel like learning how the setup works, I have a quick video tutorial at your disposal!
Happy Rigging/Animating … Feedbacks, queries and comments are most welcome 🙂
L3Deformer Library Free Download
Some of the Core Library for L3Deformer is now available at the LightStorm3D official webpage. This includes different nodes, scripts, etc which can be used in a wide ranges of custom tools creation or. build
You can now download this library for free. Try building your own tools based on nodes, classes and functions from this library 🙂
Mach Studio Pro 2 Free Download
Realtime rendering software package Mach Studio Pro 2 is now freely available for download from Studio GPU’s company website. Seems like it’s time for me to take a little sneak peek and try it out myself 🙂
Red9 Studio Pack
Ok, here seems to be a neat little tool for speeding up animation workflow. This tool comes with a combo pack of Node Search utility and some Animation Tools. I am gonna play with this tool for my animation projects for sure! For me this seems to be a must have recommended tool for animation workflow. Thanks to the Red9 Studio for the share 😉