Paul Hong Demo Reel

Demoreel_2018 from Paul Hong on Vimeo.

Impressive cartoon rigs by Paul Hong!

Puppeteer Lounge CGI Digital Human Mr. Jack

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Check out Puppeteer Lounge CGI digital human Mr. Jack rendered images for realistic character setup training workshop programs.

Puppeteer Lounge TOONs "PL Toons" on YouTube

Today marks the beginning of Puppeteer Lounge new YouTube channel "PL Toons" where we will be publishing cartoon animated contents created here at Puppeteer Lounge with our very own characters and stories. We look forward to this new and exciting animated adventure producing some great contents on the way! Here we go :D

Puppeteer Lounge Student Character Rigging Showreel 2018

Puppeteer Lounge Student Character Rigging Showreel 2018 from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Truly amazed, inspired and motivated by our students work at Puppeteer Lounge! Check out some of the best character rigging work by Puppeteer Lounge student for the past year. Best wishes to all of our students :)

“So close” shot progression by Silvia Martelossi

"So close" shot progression from Silvia Martelossi on Vimeo.

Beautiful performance by Silvia Martelossi!

Character Setup by Grethel Guardia | Animation Snippet

Character Rigging by Grethel Guardia | Student Demo Reel from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Short animated snippet showcasing the flexibility of super toon character setup by Puppeteer Lounge student Grethel Guardia. Notice the animation gimmicks :)

Character Rigging by Jules Giraud

Morphing Character Setup by Puppeteer Lounge student Jules Giraud. Check out the full video with narration by Jules below. Impressive work done by Jules! Jules is currently in the process of automating the whole modular morphing character setup. Looking forward to seeing his next update!

Ben Morgan Character TD Reel Fall 2018

Ben Morgan Character TD Reel Fall 2018 from Ben Morgan on Vimeo.

Check out character rigging show-reel by Puppeteer Lounge student Benjamin Morgan. He worked on the recent Marvel's Spider-Man game by Insomniac Games!! I wish him the best :)

FACS blendshapes by Izabela Poznańska.

FACS blendshapes from Izabela Poznańska (Zelmańska) on Vimeo.

FACS blendshapes by Izabela Poznańska. Beautiful sculpted!

ZIVA VFX Muscle Setup by student Avaya Pandey (Rigging Workshop 4)

ZIVA VFX Muscle Setup by student Avaya Pandey (Rigging Workshop 4) from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.
Watch  ZIVA VFX muscle simulation and character setup by Puppeteer Lounge student Avaya Pandey.

Avaya has progressed very well and upgraded his rigging skills coming from a basic understanding of character rigging. With Puppeteer Lounge character rigging training workshop programs together with his strong passion and learning caliber, I feel very happy to see his progress and wish him the very best for his CGI venture!

Feel free to watch Avaya's progress rigging show-reels below:

Chubby Bear | Cartoon Character Rig Demo

Chubby Bear | Cartoon Character Rig Demo from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Check out cartoon character rigging demo of Puppeteer Lounge cartoon character Chubby Bear! Chubby Bear will be tagging along side Bucky Bunny in Puppeteer Lounge Training Workshop programs.

Rigging Demo Reel 2017 Joan Martinez

Rigging Demo Reel 2017 Joan Martinez from Joan Martinez on Vimeo.

Rigging demo reel by Joan Martinez. Impressive character setup and equally good animation.

Morphing Setup by Jules Giraud

An updated demo video for the super morphing setup by Puppeteer Lounge student Jules Giraud.

Rigging Reel by Raymond Kruk

RayKruk_Rigging_Reel from Raymond Kruk on Vimeo.

Character rigging show-reel by Puppeteer Lounge student Raymond Kruk.

Fish Rigging by Mohammad Dorgham

Fish Rigging by Mohammad Dorgham from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Fish Setup by Puppeteer Lounge student Mohammad Dorgham from Egypt. The fish rig is driven with procedural animation and dynamics setup.

Facial Setup Overview | FACS based Facial Rig Demo

Facial Setup Overview | FACS based Facial Rig Demo from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

A short overview of FACS based realistic facial rig created with Blendshape Combination System. The facial setup is covered in Puppeteer Lounge Rigging Workshop 4 training workshop program. Enjoy :)

Facial setup by Ben Rosenstein

Facial Rigging by Ben Rosenstein (Hyper Real Facial Setup) from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.



FACS based facial rigging by Puppeteer Lounge student Ben Rosenstein from USA. Facial setup based on Hyper Real Facial Setup training workshop.

Facial animation performance based on Anthony Hopkins reads Dylan Thomas's poem "Do not Go Gentle into That Good Night".

Overlapper: Animation workflow (diver)

Overlapper: Animation workflow (diver) from dmitrii.kolpakov on Vimeo.
Tool for creating overlapping action in animation by Dmitrii Kolpakov. You can purchase it here.

CGI Tiger Breakdown

CGI Tiger | Breakdown from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Watch CGI breakdown video of Tiger setup driven with ZIVA VFX toolset. The tiger rig features in Puppeteer Lounge ZIVA VFX Hyper Real Quadruped Setup training workshop.

Newton | Morphing Cartoon Character (Walk Cycle Test)

Newton | Morphing Cartoon Character from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.
Watch Puppeteer Lounge new morphing cartoon character in action morphing into multiple characters (Multiple characters from same base rig)! The idea is having the same base rig that can blend into multiple characters. You can watch a demo about it below. Learn to model, setup and animate Newton with Puppeteer Lounge training workshop programs.
BoGo Morphing Character Setup Demo from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

BallBot Transformer Rig | CGI Breakdown

Rise of BallBoT from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Watch a short breakdown video of BallBot, a transformer robot we created at Puppeteer Lounge 5 years ago! BallBot features in Puppeteer Lounge Transformer Setup character rigging training workshop.

Character Rigging by Jules Giraud (Morphing Cartoon Character Setup WIP)

Character Rigging by Jules Giraud (Morphing Cartoon Character Setup WIP) from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.



Puppeteer Lounge student Jules Giraud came up with a brilliant prototype character rig based on our morphing character setup and super toon character setup training workshops. Watch Jules's video demonstration on his WIP setup! Learn Character Rigging at Puppeteer Lounge :)

Mush3D

Mush3d - www.mush3d.com from Luiz Elias on Vimeo.

Mush3d by Luiz Elias is really cool tool-set which allows user to sculpt 3d animation in post. This 3d sculpting application is aimed to fix and add extra level of details to animations. Get it here.

Angel wings rig

Angel wings rig (2011) from Seonghun Kim on Vimeo.

Wing setup by Seonghun Kim. Impressive!

Kylee Character Rig

Kylee Character Rig from Kylee Solari on Vimeo.

Kylee character rig by Kylee Solari. Lovely animation!

Goblin Facial Rig

happy_goblin facial Rig from Artem Dubina on Vimeo.

Facial setup based on FACS by Artem Dubina.

Quadruped Animation by Layering - Horse Run Cycle

Quadruped Animation by Layering - Horse Run Cycle from Virginie Michel d'Annoville on Vimeo.

Virginie Michel d'Annoville demonstrate the technique of layering animation to create a realistic run cycle for a horse. Check it out!

iloura 2015 character creature

iloura 2015 character creature from Iloura on Vimeo.

Character animation projects with vfx breakdowns by Iloura.

Character Animation by student Ashish Karmacharya (Animation Workshop 5)

Character Animation by student Ashish Karmachary (Animation Workshop 5) from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.


Character Animation by Puppeteer Lounge student Ashish Karmacharya.

Chubby Bear

Meet Chubby Bear!

Chubby Bear will be tagging along side Bucky Bunny in Puppeteer Lounge Training Workshop programs. Find out more about these Dynamic Duos with Puppeteer Lounge training workshop programs :)

Character Animation by student Selina Shakya (Animation Workshop 4)

Character Animation by student Selina Shakya (Animation Workshop 4) from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Character Animation by Puppeteer Lounge student Selina Shakya

The Food Thief RIGG - Technical breakdown & Rig Analysis

Truly a mind-bending rig by Mindbender Animation Studio! Love the 2D super cartoony look and feel of the setup and it's modularity!! Character setup by Richard Kazo and his team at Kippcase Rigging Studio. Watch trailer below.

 
The Food Thief - Teaser Shot from Mindbender on Vimeo.

Below is my crude rig analysis for this cool setup :) 

It is a very clever setup! The setup is mimicking a stop motion feel and style of cartoon design and deformation, just like how we can mold clay into any form. If we think of it simply (simplicity can be complicated :), the rig seems to be based on a lot of blendshapes (PSD), modular setup with clever deformation dependency graph (there are some benefits of modeling history in this kind of rig build where we can utilize construction history to rig advantage) and animation gimmicks setup and of-course the ShrinkWrap! The placement of the arm, leg, etc all seems to be different geometry with respective setup. The body transformation (specially the mouth) is a very cleverly art directed morph! You can see how there is a thin lining geometry for covering. Then there seems to be a final render mesh on top, with fur and all rendering goodness riding on top of the modular rig underneath! And then there are new tools like Shot Sculpt which allows you to refine shapes post animation!!

For reference take a closer look at Ren And Stimpy! :D

Shot Sculpt

Shot Sculpt from Luiz Elias on Vimeo.

Shot Sculpt tool-set by Luiz Elias looks very promising. Fantastic! You can download trial version here: http://luizelias.com/ssculpt

Baymax Character Development

Baymax Character Development from Minor Gaytan on Vimeo.

Baymax character development by Minor Gaytan.

Game Character Setup | Callisthenics Demo

Game Character Setup | Callisthenics Demo from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Enjoy some funky dance moves! Learn to setup character rigs for video games with Puppeteer Lounge's Game Character Setup Mini-Workshop.

White Rhino Rig Breakdown

White Rhino Rig Breakdown from Grant Laker on Vimeo.

Jumanji White Rhino rig breakdown by Grant Laker.

Animation Workshop 5 show-reel by Nitin Shakya

Character Animation by Puppeteer Lounge student Nitin Shakya from Nepal. Character Rigging by Puppeteer Lounge student Raka S. Saptamardhika from Indonesia. Watch Raka's demo below!

“The Angry Birds Movie” Reference Comparison Reel

David Badgerow - “The Angry Birds Movie" Reference Comparison Reel from David Badgerow on Vimeo.

“The Angry Birds Movie” Reference Comparison Reel by David Badgerow.

Bonnie 2 Rig Walkthrough

Bonnie 2 Rig Walkthrough from Josh Sobel on Vimeo.

Congratulation on the new Bonnie rig Josh! Here is a walk-through video by Josh Sobel. Very well done!!

BCS driven Facial Setup with Physical Simulation | Dynamixyz Facial MoCap

BCS driven Facial Setup with Physical Simulation | Dynamixyz Facial MoCap from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

This breakdown shows realistic facial setup driven with Blendshape Combination System toolset, enriched with ZIVA VFX based Physical Simulation. Facial performance capture and animation using Dynamixyz Performer tool-set. This rig features in Puppeteer Lounge Rigging Workshop 3 with ZIVA VFX & BCS training workshop.

Felix Rodriguez Joleanes Technical Demoreel 2018

Felix Rodriguez Joleanes Technical Demoreel 2018 from Felix Joleanes on Vimeo.

Technical demo-reel by Felix Rodriguez featuring impressive procedural setup and animation.

Facial Rig by Abolfazl Movahhedi

dad character rig from abolfazl movahhedi on Vimeo.

Notice the technique used in the demo, joint path constraint to curve for better arc! Ingenious demo by Abolfazl Movahhedi.

Bull fighter by khalil khalilian

Bull fighter from khalil khalilian on Vimeo.

Impressive setup and breakdown by Khalil Khalilian using ZIVA VFX physical simulation.

ANIMATION DEMO REEL Vincent Caudeville.

ANIMATION DEMO REEL 2017 from Vincent Caudeville on Vimeo.

Character animation demo reel by Vincent Caudeville. Great stuff!

ZIVA VFX Hyper Real Character Setup | Breakdown

ZIVA VFX Hyper Real Character Setup | Breakdown from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

This breakdown shows realistic character setup driven with ZIVA VFX toolset (a plug-in with an offline FEM anatomy simulator). This rig features in Puppeteer Lounge Rigging Workshop 3 with ZIVA VFX & BCS training workshop. The physics based anatomy created with ZIVA VFX software reduces the time and cost required to build life-like, anatomical characters for films and games.

ZIVA VFX Skin Simulation

ZIVA VFX Skin Simulation from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Watch ZIVA VFX muscle simulation! Learn to setup realistic character rig at Puppeteer Lounge with ZIVA VFX tool-set!

ZIVA VFX Fat Simulation

ZIVA VFX Fat Simulation from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Watch ZIVA VFX muscle simulation! Learn to setup realistic character rig at Puppeteer Lounge with ZIVA VFX tool-set!

ZIVA VFX Fascia Simulation

ZIVA VFX Fascia Simulation from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Watch ZIVA VFX muscle simulation! Learn to setup realistic character rig at Puppeteer Lounge with ZIVA VFX tool-set!

ZIVA VFX Musle Simulation

ZIVA VFX Muscle Simulation from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Watch ZIVA VFX muscle simulation! Learn to setup realistic character rig at Puppeteer Lounge with ZIVA VFX tool-set!

Body Mechanics exercise by Puppeteer Lounge student Selina and Ashish

Character Animation by student Selina Shakya (Animation Workshop 3) from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Character animation by Puppeteer Lounge student Selina Shakya.

Character Animation by student Ashish Karmacharya (Animation Workshop 4) from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Character animation by Puppeteer Lounge student Ashish Karmacharya.

Facial rig demo by Asad Manzoor

Tommy Rig Viewport Footage from Asad Manzoor on Vimeo.


[WIP] Tommy Render Test from Asad Manzoor on Vimeo.

Impressive facial rig demo by Asad Manzoor

A Quick Intro to ZIVA VFX

ZIVA VFX featured Puppeteer Lounge student Atsushi Yasuoka's work in their latest demo! Check out some of the amazing work by Atsushi here: http://www.noribros.com

Animation Show-reel by Sachina Shakya

Sachina Shakya Animation Reel 2018 from Sachina Shakya on Vimeo.


Check out character animation show-reel by Puppeteer Lounge lead animator, mentor and co-founder Sachina Shakya :)

Character Rigging by Avaya Pandey

Character Rigging by student Avaya Pandey (Rigging Workshop 3) from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Watch Character setup show-reel for Puppeteer Lounge's Rigging Workshop 3 training program by student Avaya Pandey!

Dinosaur with ZIVA VFX

Dinosaur with ZIVA VFX by student Atsushi Yasuoka from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.
Check out the musculo-skeletal breakdown video for a Dinosaur using ZIVA VFX tool-set by Puppeteer Lounge student Atsushi Yasuoka.

BoGo “Drunk” | Puppeteer Lounge Shorts

BoGo "Drunk"  | Puppeteer Lounge Shorts from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.



Sometimes you just need some funny animation about being drunk to get you through the day! Enjoy this shorts by Puppeteer Lounge :)

Learn to Bring the Puppets to Life!

Next-Gen Digital Human Performance by Andy Serkis

It's what they are calling volumetric capture, reconstruction and compression technology... in-other words a fancy term for state of the art facial 3D scan and motion capture integration algorithm. Digital humans have now crossed the uncanny valley and future looks promising with all the new hardware and tool-set. Lot of the credit goes to developers and artist behind the scene! Learn more here.

Vicon Siren first look at GDC 2018.

Human Musculo-Skeletal Model | Anatomy

Human Musculo-skeleletal model for tissue-skin simulation with ZIVA VFX tool-set. Learn to setup realistic character rig at Puppeteer Lounge with ZIVA VFX tool-set. Watch breakdown by Puppeteer Lounge's student Atsushi Yasuoka below:

Brio VR

Check out BrioVR, a new platform to create and share your 3D artwork. Think of it as a VR/AR 3D Art Gallery website! Our good friend Dave Cardwell sent me an email regarding their new VR/AR 3D art gallery website "BrioVR" so we did a quick test with the platform with Puppeteer Lounge's character Tejo from our character rigging training workshop program. Overall the site have good potential and a bright future for it! Check it out.

Horizon Zero Dawn - Animation Reel

Horizon Zero Dawn - Animation Reel from Richard Oud on Vimeo.

Horizon Zero Dawn - Animation Reel by Richard Oud.

FACS based Facial Setup Demo | Training Worskhop

Learn advance FACS based facial rigging for films and games with Puppeteer Lounge's facial setup training workshop programs! The facial setup is based on Blendshape Combination System workflow.

Super Toon Animation | Character Setup

Cartoony animation test utilizing various kinds of animation gimmicks such as smears, multiples, etc! Learn to setup and animate similar characters with Puppeteer Lounge's training workshops.

Cartoony Facial Setup | Facial Rigging Demo

A brief demo covering some of the features of the facial system for character "Danny". Features in Puppeteer Lounge Cartoony Facial Setup training workshop.

Character Rigging by student Ben Rosenstein (Vehicle Setup)

Character Rigging by student Ben Rosenstein (Vehicle Setup) from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Vehicle Setup by Puppeteer Lounge student Ben Rosenstein.

Bug Gaits for Animators

Bug Gaits for Animators from Stephen Cunnane on Vimeo.

Good reference to get you started with insect locomotion with procedural animation!

Character Modeling Reel / João Victor Ferreira

Character Modeling Reel / João Victor Ferreira from João Victor Ferreira on Vimeo.

Beautiful character modeling reel by João Victor Ferreira.

Rigging Reel by Yang Mengjing

Rigging reel by Yang Mengjing. Facial rig based on wire (curve) based deformation looks very interesting!

semsar character rig

semsar character rig from abolfazl movahhedi on Vimeo.

Cartoon character setup demo by Abolfazl Movahhedi.

Character Rigging by student Benjamin Morgan (Rigging Workshop 3 - Body Setup)

Maya Muscle Rig from Ben Morgan on Vimeo.

Character Rigging by student Benjamin Morgan (Rigging Workshop 3 - Body Setup) from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Body setup animation test by Puppeteer Lounge student Benjamin Morgan! Also I would like to congratulate Benjamin on his new position as Character TD intern at Insomniac Games, the makers of Ratchet and Clank, Resistance, Sunset Overdrive...

Character Animation by student Bibhuk Shakya (Animation Workshop 5)

Character Animation by student Bibhuk Shakya (Animation Workshop 5) from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Check out character animation workshop 5 show-reel by Puppeteer Lounge student Bibhuk Shakya.

Fat Simulation and Muscle Setup by Deivid Garcia Betancourt

Fat_Simulation&muscles from Deivid Rigger Artist on Vimeo.

Muscle setup and FAT simulation by Deivid Garcia Betancourt based on Puppeteer Lounge SKIN (FAT) Simulation Webinar by Ehsan Kiani.

Centipedes in Houdini

Centipedes in Houdini from Felix Joleanes on Vimeo.

Procedural animation in Houdini looks fun! Here is a good one by Felix Joleanes.

MPC - Rigging Bears

MPC - Rigging Bears - 2017 from Wesley Schneider on Vimeo.

Rigging Bears by Wesley Schneider and his team at MPC.

Dinosaur breakdown by Atsushi Yasuoka

Dinosaur from noribros on Vimeo.

Ziva VFX Dinosaur breakdown by Atsushi Yasuoka. Well done Atsushi! Watch Atsushi's Ziva VFX Musculo-skeletal breakdown below.

ZIVA VFX Muscle Simulation Breakdown by student Atsushi Yasuoka from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Learn to setup realistic character rigs at Puppeteer Lounge with ZIVA VFX tool-set.

ZIVA VFX Muscle Simulation Breakdown by student Francisco Tejo | Quadruped

ZIVA VFX Muscle Simulation Breakdown by student Francisco Tejo | Quadruped from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Panther_ZivaVFX_Breakdown from Francisco Tejo on Vimeo.

Puppeteer Lounge student and my good friend Francisco Tejo did a good job modeling, rigging and animating this Panther quadruped character with ZIVA VFX toolset!

Character Rigging by student Pawan Naidu (Rigging Workshop 1)

Character Rigging by student Pawan Naidu (Rigging Workshop 1) from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.
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Well done Pawan Naidu! Looking forward to seeing some great results with more advance courses soon here at Puppeteer Lounge.

CGI Tiger

CGI Tiger from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.


ZIVA VFX Hyper Real Quadruped Setup | Musculoskeletal Breakdowns from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.


The CGI Tiger features in Puppeteer Lounge ZIVA VFX Hyper Real Quadruped Setup training workshop. Francisco did a good job with the fur and render :)

Félix R. Cuevas - Rigging Reel 2017

Félix R. Cuevas - Rigging Reel 2017 from Felix R. Cuevas on Vimeo.

Nice show-reel by Félix R. Cuevas. Well done! 

Dynamixyz Facial Motion Capture Training Workshop

Dynamixyz Facial Motion Capture from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.



Check out our latest facial motion capture performance animation using Dynamixyz toolset. Dynamixyz’s Performer Solution is an award-winning video-based markerless facial capture and analysis solution for films and games. Now you can learn to create High-End Facial Animations on your Own with Dynamixyz software at Puppeteer Lounge. Check out our mini workshops for more detail!

Kudos to Dynamixyz team! :)

Rigging Road Test by Andrew Daffy

Character rigging road test (guidelines) document by Andrew Daffy!

Cartoon facial rig

Cartoon facial rig from Vincent Cano on Vimeo.

Cartoon facial rig by Vincent Cano.

ZIVA VFX Muscle Simulation Breakdown by Atsushi Yasuoka

ZIVA VFX Muscle Simulation Breakdown by Atsushi Yasuoka from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Check out this Musculo-skeletal demo by Puppeteer Lounge student Atsushi Yasuoka from Japan. Great job!