Vajrayana Art Gallery

Beside doing regular computer animation stuffs; I also collect, produce and create traditional Newar (Buddhist) art work (all beautifully hand-crafted). You can visit my gallery "Vajrayana Art" here.

Someday we at Puppeteer Lounge wish to bring these deities to life in the form of CG animation. That would be fantastic, there is just so much detail and a wide array of stories to go by.

You can find Vajrayana Art in Facebook here.

Mystique Reel 2014 by David Coral

Mystique Reel 2014 from davidcorral on Vimeo.

Check out this amazing reel by David Coral for his work on Mystique character transformation.

Rigging reel by Hanna Binswanger.

Demo Reel 2014 from Hanna Binswanger on Vimeo.

Nice rigging reel by Puppeteer Lounge student Hanna Binswanger.

Portfolio reel by Sasha Langer

Portfolio '14 | 1 from sascha langer on Vimeo.

Beautiful reel by Puppeteer Lounge student Sascha Langer. Check out his rigging works on Rollin' Wild.

Blender Rigging Reel by student Lenin Garcia

Blender Rigging Reel by student Lenin Garcia from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Blender Rigging Reel by PUPPETEER LOUNGE student Lenin Garcia with instructor Jeremy Davidson.

R&D with BCS

A test comparison of standard Blendshape vs Blendshape Combination System BCS, developed by Daniel Pook-Kolb. You can watch the video by clicking here.

We are working on creating a new and exciting workshop specifically geared toward creating a facial rig using BCS.

For further enquiry contact us: info@puppeteerlounge.com
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P.S. AU stands for Action Unit (Facial Action Coding System).

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~face/facs.htm

AU 1 = Inner Brow Raiser
AU 2 = Outer Brow Raiser

GURUNG Facial Deformation Test from Puppeteer Lounge 40 minutes ago All Audiences

GURUNG Facial Deformation Test from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Here is a quick breakdown for the facial deformation test that we did for Puppeteer Lounge's Rigging Workshop 3 (Hyper Real Character Setup).

Helena & Ted @puppeteerlounge

Introducing two new characters Helena and Ted! Both of these characters features in Puppeteer Lounge Rigging Workshop (“Cartoon Character Setup”) and Animation Workshop.
Rigging Workshop 2 (Group Online) starts mid-end of November where we will learn to rig one of these character for animation.
http://www.puppeteerlounge.com/rigging-workshop
Also join us for our upcoming Animation Workshop with instructor David Good to bring these characters to life!
http://www.puppeteerlounge.com/animation-workshop
Helena character modeled by Julie Tardieu from France

Nepal - Langatang Kyanjin Gompa Trek

Check out this short video created out of some of the videos from our trekking to the Langtang region of Nepal. In the video is my beautiful wife Sachina Shakya.
Please excuse some camera shakes. Watch it in 1080p and special thanks to KUTUMBA for the wonderful music:)

Pedro Selfie - Cornea Push Test

Pedro Selfie - Cornea Push Test from Riggerman on Vimeo.

Cornea push (Eyelid bulge effect) test by student Richard Kazuo from Brazil.

http://www.puppeteerlounge.com/rigging-workshop

Animation demoreel 2013-2014

Animation demoreel 2013-2014 from Andrey Filimonov on Vimeo.

Check out the reel by Puppeteer Lounge student Andrey Filimonov.

http://puppeteerlounge.com/

Kind donation by Yeow Tiger for Dolpo School

Special thanks to Yeow Tiger from Malaysia for supporting Binod Shahi and the children of Dolpo with stationary items.These books will be distributed to the children of Mushi Village and one another School of Dolpa.

Yeow after watching Puppeteer Lounge's animated short "Dolpo School" contacted Binod Bid Shahi Nepa for the kind donation.

You can watch "Dolpo School" below:

Dolpo School (2014) from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.


In the picture you can see Binod, Hari Ji who brought the stationary all the way from Singapore where Yeow currently lives.

You can help support Binod's organization by visiting their website: http://snowyak.org/

Richard Maegaki 2012 ShowReel

Richard Maegaki 2012 ShowReel from Riggerman on Vimeo.

Rigging show-reel by Richard Kazuo aka Riggerman. Richard is currently studying facial rigging at Puppeteer Lounge.

His facial motion capture setup using SimpleCV is pretty impressive: https://vimeo.com/72167459

Check out his VIMEO profile for more videos: https://vimeo.com/40446685