Apr 1, 2008
Wolverine 1.0.0
No AB review yet.
I loaded up the rig with no textures but just like Michael Kiessling's other rigs, textures are there. Here why:
SPECIAL NOTE:
The character rig uses a normal map, and high quality shading is turned on by default. If your graphics card does not support Maya's high quality shading option, you will get a critical error when opening the scene file. To work around that problem, you can import the scene file into an EMPTY(!) scene, but you will not see the benefits of the normal map. Make sure the nodes will not be renamed when importing or the UI won't work.
For more information, visit his site.
Demonlord 0.9.0
No AB review yet.
Just like the "Kasumi" rig, the Demonlord is another one from Michael Kiessling's collection. Visit his site for all the details.
Mar 28, 2008
TSMbiped
No AB review yet.
This rig is available @ Anzovin Studio as a .zip file here, just like their Wolf rig.
Another good rig for physical animation or to show off mechanics. If you want to see it in action, go to this CGtalk thread. Here the main post:
After slogging out all the remaining problems, I've finally got The Setup Machine 2 for Maya to the point where it can make a rig fit to be used by other people. :) So I'm posting this rig free to the net. Take a look, tell me what you think, use it for anything you want. It's designed to allow a great deal of real control over a character's shape, allowing you to squash and reshape pretty much any part of the body.
This rig is in a Maya 6.5 .ma file. It should work fine with 6.0 if you change the headers, but it won't work with 5.0.
http://www.rafhashvideotapes.com/lib/rafhashvideotapes/guy.zip
Here's some movies I made a few weeks ago displaying some of the features of the rig. Many features have been added since then so this isn't a complete list, but it gives you a good idea of what this rig was designed for:
http://www.rafhashvideotapes.com/lib/rafhashvideotapes/rigleg.mov
http://www.rafhashvideotapes.com/lib/rafhashvideotapes/rigfkandik.mov
http://www.rafhashvideotapes.com/lib/rafhashvideotapes/rigspine.mov
http://www.rafhashvideotapes.com/lib/rafhashvideotapes/rigarm.mov
http://www.rafhashvideotapes.com/lib/rafhashvideotapes/rigproxy.mov
http://www.rafhashvideotapes.com/lib/rafhashvideotapes/rigtwist.mov
The Setup Machine 2 for Maya is an autorigging system that we expect to release sometime in November. Here's some videos of what the beta version looks like in action, rigging up this very same character:
http://www.rafhashvideotapes.com/lib/rafhashvideotapes/widgetspart1.mov
http://www.rafhashvideotapes.com/lib/rafhashvideotapes/TSM2Mwidgetspart2.mov
http://www.rafhashvideotapes.com/lib/rafhashvideotapes/TSM2MSSPart3.mov
http://www.rafhashvideotapes.com/lib/rafhashvideotapes/TSM2MSSPart4.mov
I hope you all like it!
--Raf Anzovin
Anzovin Studio
raf@anzovin.com
www.anzovin.com
Mr. Inspired
[Looks like the publisher changed or something, but all the links went dead. Not sure if you still have access to the files online.] 6/12/10
No AB review yet.
This rig is quite old by now, but it's still working fine. Don't expect any fancy stretchy IKs, there isn't even a facial setup, besides a jaw up/down function. But it's light and fast and would work well for physical animation or learning mechanics.
Go to Premiere Press Books' page for "Inspired 3D Character Setup". You get the rig for free if you buy the book, but they also let you download it without getting the book. Click on the "Downloads" link and it will bring you down to a list of downloads. You get MEL scripts, Models and Rigs.
I recommend the link to the full hires (unrigged) model,
You have to rig it yourself of course, but there are free auto-rig setups online (there's a really good one, but the name escapes me right now... something with skeleton...).
One that I haven't tried is Supercrumbly's "abAutoRig 1.9.1".
Or you get the rigged version, which is lo-res (just do a "smooth" poly for the head).
The link for this rig is here. You can always parent the hi-res geometry to the lo-res rig, but again, no facial setup besides the jaw up/down, unless you create your own blendshapes using the hi-res head, which could be fun.
The rig file is named chapter16, so I'll just give it the lame name Mr. Inspired. :)
No AB review yet.
This rig is quite old by now, but it's still working fine. Don't expect any fancy stretchy IKs, there isn't even a facial setup, besides a jaw up/down function. But it's light and fast and would work well for physical animation or learning mechanics.
Go to Premiere Press Books' page for "Inspired 3D Character Setup". You get the rig for free if you buy the book, but they also let you download it without getting the book. Click on the "Downloads" link and it will bring you down to a list of downloads. You get MEL scripts, Models and Rigs.
I recommend the link to the full hires (unrigged) model,
You have to rig it yourself of course, but there are free auto-rig setups online (there's a really good one, but the name escapes me right now... something with skeleton...).
One that I haven't tried is Supercrumbly's "abAutoRig 1.9.1".
Or you get the rigged version, which is lo-res (just do a "smooth" poly for the head).
The link for this rig is here. You can always parent the hi-res geometry to the lo-res rig, but again, no facial setup besides the jaw up/down, unless you create your own blendshapes using the hi-res head, which could be fun.The rig file is named chapter16, so I'll just give it the lame name Mr. Inspired. :)
Mar 19, 2008
Mr. Brightside 1.0.0
No AB review yet.- download it here
This rig is by Nathan Tillett and looks great. He mentions though that the arms have no polevectors and I also noticed some funky enveloping in his hip area as well as pants. Make sure to leave comments, it would be great to have a more polished version.
Mar 14, 2008
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