May 7, 2009

Squirrely Rig


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Very fun looking rig and lots of information about it. Well worth a look.




Squirrely Obstacle Course Part 1 from Josh Burton on Vimeo.

Mar 14, 2009

Mar 12, 2009

Shark


Very cool looking rig! Find out more about it here. Works only in Maya 8.5, anything newer and the mesh freaks out.



Blake


Find out more about it here. Lots of info and a video. Rig discussion can be found @ the 11secondclub.




Dec 12, 2008

Rockstar


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Jon


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Cuban Car


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Mr. SuRuj


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Mamooth


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Great rig! Just look out for weird ear deformation when you dial in mouth shapes.

Nossy


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F-22 Raptor


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Mecanic


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Fazee


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Raa Spider


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Tonga the Fox


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Thanks Mike Rhone for sharing the rig!

Oct 21, 2008

abxPicker


I added "abxPicker" to the MEL section. Definitely a handy tool to speed up your workflow. More details:

abxPicker provides artists, animators, and character TDs with an intuitive interface for creating and using custom character control interfaces. Using drag and drop, you can create, position, resize, and edit buttons to select character controls.

Features:

* Quickly create layouts using easy drag and drop interface
* Supports background image style, or simplified iconographic layouts
* Auto assign default tools like move and rotate to controls
* Key selection sets with a single button
* Create Toggle buttons for visibility or IK/FK switching or other
* Data is stored in scene nodes for easy portability
* Import/Export to other rigs
* Supports Shift-click to add to selection and ctrl-click to subtract from selection list
* Works with character referencing, rename prefixes and namespacing for pipeline integration
* Only one .mel file (easy to install)
* Includes Test Scene File to try out

Jul 24, 2008

Octopus


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That guy is cool!

Rudy


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That guy is creepy! Especially without his... you know what. But cool rig for more photo real digi-double type of animation.

Chrysler300


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Pix Car


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Looks like this rig was heavily influenced by the cars from Pixar's "Cars", hence the name rig "Pix Car". Not exactly demo reel friendly, but cute nonetheless.

Joe


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Iron Man


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Ball Character


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Mall Bicycle


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DumbMan


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Jun 5, 2008

PoseMAN 1.2.4


I added PoseMAN 1.2.4 to the MEL script section. Head over to highend3d for the download and all the info about it (including video demos). A few details:

Some functions:
- Unlimited characters, sections and poses
- Works with any character, object, node, etc..
- Works with referencing
- Capture thumbnails pose on the fly
- Rename Character, Sections and Poses
- Add / Remove controls poses
- Reorder Sections and Poses
- Mix pose slider!
- You can apply pose and MIX pose in 10%, 25%, 50%, 75%
- Easy to share, just copy and paste /poseman directory or Character directory