SRB Blog: May 2013

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Hosuk Chang FX Reel 2013

Really mind blowing FX stuff by Hosuk Chang.

Monday, May 27, 2013

Incoming Non-roll Setup WEBINAR update

Puppeteer Lounge's Exclusive Webinar on Non-Roll Setup with Victor Vinyals is scheduled to lauch during the 3rd week of June. For those of you who want to participate in the event, hurry up and apply now! Seats are being taken as we speak of… :)

The Webinar focuses on rigging the shoulder area of a character where Victor will be sharing his techniques to avoids the usual and annoying collapse of the shoulder area when twisting the upper-arm while hitting certain positions!

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Parkour Exercise Using Pose to Pose Method

A good resource on "The parkour exercise uses the pose to pose method". Check it out! Good read for all animators.

Friday, May 24, 2013

Webinar with Victor Vinyals

Puppeteer Lounge is proud to present an Exclusive WEBINAR session with our guest instructor Victor Vinyals!

Come join us to learn the insides and secrets of the Non-Flip Setup!

More Info!

Feel free to take a look at the impressive Non-Flip shoulder setup from Victor's Businessman rigging reel.

Hurry Up! Limited seats :)

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Meet Victor Vinyals!

A new member of Puppeteer Lounge family joining as a Guest Rigging Instructor to conduct Puppeteer Lounge's upcoming Exclusive Webinar sessions.

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Victor is an accomplished Character Setup artist from Barcelona, Spain. He initially worked as an animator for 8 years and later discovered his passion for character rigging. He worked as a Senior Character TD at Aardman Animations. Currently he works as a freelance Character Setup artist for companies like Aardman itself, iAnimate.net and Molinare for commercials, short films, games and features. He is our Guest Rigging Instructor to conduct our upcoming exclusive Webinar sessions. Stay Tuned!

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I would like to personally welcome him into this new and exciting venture :)

"Welcome aboard Victor!"

Feel free to check out his all time favorite and inspiring rigging reel below :

DAO MakingOf

Making of DAO, made by compositor Bertrand Polivka that illustrates some of the behind the scenes work involved in creating the spot.

Monday, May 20, 2013

Judd Simantov on character rigging and modeling in Naughty Dog's The Last of Us

Judd Simantov presents his work on Naughty Dog's latest project, The Last of Us!

Filmmaking Techniques

Filmmaking Techniques by demonstrating a variety of camera and editing techniques. Included: camera shots, angles, framing, movement, focus, white balance, composition, lighting, animation, blue/green screen, keying, colour adjusting, cloning, slow-motion, image effects, transitions and sound editing by Curtis Brownjohn.

Resourceful!

Saturday, May 18, 2013

DISTANCE MAKING OF

Making of styliszed 2D animation of DISTANCE by Todd DeJong.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Hair and ClothRigging Demo Reel 2012

Great rigging reel by Mellisa Caldwell.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Animation Showreel 2011 -VIOLA BAIER-

Beautiful animation reel by Viola Baier featuring 2D and 3D character and creature animation.

Eye Direction and Proximity

Great post on eye direction and it's importance. Head over to Pencils, pixels and pursuit of awesomeness blog to check it out!

Character TD Reel by Jan Lachauer

Nice reel by Jan Lachauer featuring deformation tools and cartoon rig.

Making the sparrow

Making the sparrow by Assembly. Also a neat demo on MembranaeDeformer by Daniele Niero below.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Strange Oaks

Strange Oaks by HEADLESS. Rigging and animation by SHED.

characters W.I.P. rigging

Character rigging reel by Bruno Hamzagic. Nice setup and interesting characters.

Final Straw

Very funny lol! Animatics by Ricky Renna. Below is the short by Ricky Renna.

Carlos | WIP #6 | Facial Rigging - Part 2

Eyelid rigging by Henrique Melo.

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Weber Saint Gobain - Flour Sack

Flour sack rig demo by Renato Polimeno. Nice deformation! Good job Renato :)

11 Second Club March entry by muhammad zohaib

Nice animation by Muhammad Zohaib.

Jose Molina Reel Rig 2012 Jose Molina

Beautiful rig reel by Jose Molina featuring characters from short "Alike" done entirely on Blender.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Rigging pipeline flowchart by Jimmy Gunawan

Rigging pipeline flowchart by Jimmy Gunawan, student at Puppeteer Lounge. Check out his daily ventures of collecting 3D ideas, poetries and experiments stirred in Maya 3D on his blog.

5 Reasons Why Mickey Mouse Co-Creator Ub Iwerks Was Awesome

Truly a great pioneer in animation! Check out the post on Cartoon Brew about the awesomeness of Ub Iwerks who is the co-creator of Micky Mouse.

Voile Noir

Cool dogfight! Nice short.

Parzival Roethlein prSelectionUi - Animation UI (Maya)

Handy tool to store objects by Parzival Roethlein. Download here!

Monday, May 6, 2013

The Slow Maya File Dialog "Solution"

How many thousand of hours have been wasted because of Maya slow File Open dialog? Here is a post by my student Jimmy Gunawan with a solution to fix it!

Antoine Cunningham Rough Demo Reel

One of my student Antoine Cunningham showcases his amazing talent in character animation. He worked on all time favorite Disney movies such as Tarzan, Mulan and many more. Check it out!