Matt Shumway Animation Reel

Matt Shumway Animation Reel from Frontier Studios on Vimeo.

Amazing animal/creature animation by Matt Shumway.

ZIVA Deer muscle demo

01. Ziva Muscles Setup of Deer from Christopher Macwana on Vimeo.

Ziva Muscles Setup of deer by Christopher Macwana which is available in gumroad.

Game Animation Reel

Reel_2019_Music_FINAL from Mike Walling on Vimeo.

Game animation reel by Mike Walling.

Game Animation Reel

Game Animation Reel 2014~2017 from loh junehyuk on Vimeo.

Game animation showcase by loh Junehyuk. Nice work!

blendEdge deformer for Maya

blendEdge deformer for Maya from Leon Sooi on Vimeo.

Facial composite editor for morphing by Leon Sooi. Looks good!

Tentacle Rig demo by Alexander Zagoruyko

Tentacle Rig from Alexander Zagoruyko on Vimeo.

Tentacle Rig demo by Alexander Zagoruyko. Very intuitive and flexible!

Skirt rig based on bell collider

Skirt rig based on bell collider by Alexander Zagoruyko. Here is the link to the tutorial.

Facial rig demo by Arturo Coso Garrido.

faceRig_test from Arturo Coso Garrido on Vimeo.

Cool facial rig by Arturo Coso Garrido. Liked the intuitive controls and fleshy deformation!

Character Rigging by Francesco Gioia | Student Demo Reel

Character Rigging by Francesco Gioia | Student Demo Reel from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Character Setup (Rigging Workshop 2) demo by Puppeteer Lounge student Francesco Gioia from Italy. Well done Francesco!

Rig Demo Reel Break Down by Chenyu Hsieh

Rig Demo Reel Break Down from Chenyu Hsieh on Vimeo.

Rigging demoreel by Chenyu Hsieh. Chenyu participated in Puppeteer Lounge Ziva VFX quadruped setup training workshop. Well done!

Facial setup by Felix Ferrand.

Rubato facial from felix ferrand on Vimeo.

Facial setup by Felix Ferrand. Impressive work!

Character Rigging by Sri Ram Shanthanakrishnan | Student Demo Reel

Character Rigging by Sri Ram Shanthanakrishnan | Student Demo Reel from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Muscle based quadruped character rigging by Puppeteer Lounge student Sri Ram Shanthanakrishnan. Well done Sri and keep it up! Learn to setup a similar quadruped rig at Puppeteer Lounge with Hyper Real Quadruped Setup training workshop program.

Mesh Locator

Mesh Locator from Xavier Dorion on Vimeo.

Mesh Locator control setup by Xavier Dorion. Looks very intuitive and animator friendly!

Devil Leonardo Ninja Turtle

Devil Leonardo Ninja Turtle from Myles Yeo on Vimeo.

Very cool animation test by Myles Yeo. Love the detail and body mechanics!

Eric D. Legare 2019 Animation TD Demo Reel

Animation TD show-reel by Eric D. Legare. The skin simulation on the bull using Houdini was pretty impressive. Overall a great show-reel.

Character Development Reel by Dave Weatherly.

2017 Character Development Reel from Dave Weatherly on Vimeo.

Character Development Reel by Dave Weatherly. Beautiful, love the character development; specially the frog!

Puppeteer Lounge Animation Student Show Reel 2019

Puppeteer Lounge Animation Student Show Reel | 2019 from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.



Excited to present Puppeteer Lounge student character animation showcase 2019! Really amazed and inspired by our students work! Best Wishes to all our talented students :)

Body Mechanics Animation Exercises

Body mechanics exercises by Puppeteer Lounge students Nikesh Maharjan, Pranish Shakya and Krish Pradhan. 

Bucky Bunny "Colour Me"

Watch Puppeteer Lounge's latest animated short about Bucky Bunny having some fun face painting Chubby Bear :)

RIGGING REEL 2019 - Logan Cameron

RIGGING REEL 2019 - Logan Cameron from Logan Cameron on Vimeo.

Rigging showreel by Logan Cameron. Interesting setup!

Character Animation by Nitin Shakya | Student Demo Reel

Character Animation by Nitin Shakya| Student Demo Reel from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.



Excellent work by Puppeteer Lounge student Nitin Shakya recreating an exaggerated animated version of funny clip from a Nepali movie. All the characters in the scene are the same, the morphing Newton!

Watch the original movie clip below.

Cascadeur

Check out Cascadeur, physics based animation tool-set! You can try out their beta version here. With all the AI deepfake and machine learning emerging; this tool-set also uses machine learning for pose prediction and physics! Looking forward to seeing more development in these fields.

AI brings Mona Lisa to life

Deepfake and machine learning! AI takeover :)

Dynamixyz and Pixelgun scan-based solving Demo

Dynamixyz and Pixelgun scan-based solving Demo from Dynamixyz on Vimeo.

Scan-based facial motion capture demo by Dynamixyz.

Character Rigging by Asya Alkooheji

Character Rigging by Asya Alkooheji | Student Demo Reel from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Character setup demo by student Asya Alkooheji from Puppeteer Lounge Rigging Workshop 3 training workshop program. Asya did a splendid job with rig. Check it out!

ZIVA VFX Muscle Setup by Ricardo Medina Fernández

ZIVA VFX Muscle Setup by Ricardo Medina Fernández  | Student Demo Reel from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.



Ziva VFX muscle simulation breakdown by Puppeteer Lounge student Ricardo Medina Fernández. Ricardo did a great job with the setup and simulation!

Character Rigging by Luay Saqer

Puppeteer Lounge student Luay Saqer did a great job with his assignments from our intro to rigging training workshops! Modeling and animation by Luay Saqer! 

Facial rig by Jules Giraud

Watch Puppeteer Lounge student Jules Giraud demonstrate his latest facial rigging!

Stephen Bester Procedural & Technical showreel 2018

Stephen Bester Procedural & Technical showreel 2018 from Stephen Bester on Vimeo.

Procedural & Technical showreel by Stephen Bester. Very impressive work done in Houdini!

Randall Hess - Rigging, Tools & Pipeline Demo Reel 2018

Randall Hess - Rigging, Tools & Pipeline Demo Reel 2018 from Randall Hess on Vimeo.

Randall Hess - LawBreakers Character Rigging & Simulation from Randall Hess on Vimeo.

Rigging, Tools & Pipeline demo reel by Randall Hess. Impressive setup and simulation!

Nick Park CGI Stopmotion Mouth Rig

Nick Park CGI Stopmotion Mouth Rig from Kati Knitt on Vimeo.

Intuitive mouth rig by Kati Knitt. Give it a try with your next facial rig!

Newton as Shadow Dan

Newton as Shadow Dan from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Puppeteer Lounge's morphing cartoon character Newton as Shadow Dan!! Sachina Shakya did a great job with the animation, it was so much fun! I did the lighting, rendering, compositing and of-course the rigging. Modeling and texturing by our talented artist Nadim Shakya. Many thanks to Rune Bennicke who did the original pencil test of Shadow Dan. Watch it here. This was truly a fun learning experience for all of us :)

Rigging Reel by Anderson Augusto

Rigging Reel 2019 - Tainá and the Amazon´s Guardian from Anderson.A on Vimeo.

Rigging show-reel by Anderson Augusto featuring nice 2D style facial expression control.

Rigging reel by Alexander Lee

Tech art / Rigging reel 2019 from Alexander Lee on Vimeo.

Tech art and rigging reel by Alexander Lee. Nice musculo-skeletal setup and deformation.

MocapX

This looks really promising! Currently out for folks with iPhone only, the app is available for purchase from iOS store. A free trial version would have been better for testing purpose. Check it out here.

Rigging demo reel by Eric Hug

Rigging Demo Reel from Eric Hug on Vimeo.

Interesting rigging approach on creating wrinkles and fleshy movements showcased in this demo reel by Eric Hug.

Fast and Deep Deformation Approximations

fdda implementation (maya plugin) from Matt LeFevre on Vimeo.

Custom implementation of the paper "Fast and Deep Deformation Approximations" by Matt LeFevre.

Facial Rigging by Matthias Glombek

Rigging Reel 2019 from M. G. on Vimeo.

Check out the facial setup by Puppeteer Lounge student Matthias Glombek. He signed up for Puppeteer Lounge Cartoon Facial Setup training workshop!

HOW TO DRAW CARTOONS FOR BEGINNERS

HOW TO DRAW CARTOONS FOR BEGINNERS from Wayne Carlisi on Vimeo.

Veteran animator Wayne Carlisi shares his valuable knowledge on drawing cartoon characters. Check it out!

Character Setup by Nadia Sanchez

Character Rigging by Nadia Sanchez | Student Demo Reel from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Puppeteer Lounge student Nadia Sanchez Rigging Workshop 2 show-reel!

Croods 2 Rig Features

Croods 2 Rig Features from Stephen Candell on Vimeo.

Croods 2 rig features by Stephen Candell, Nathaniel Dirkson, Kevin Ochs and Jaryd Snover. Amazing deformation and love the presentation!

VTS Animation Tutorial by Keith Lango

I have been an avid fan and a big time follower of Mr. Keith Lango, truly genuine and inspirational animator in the industry. Keith has recently made all his VTS tutorial series publicly available under his YouTube channel here. I would like to thank him for his willingness to share his valuable knowledge. Thank you kind sir :)

Cartoon Octopus Rig

Cartoon Octopus Rig from Hector Abraham Torres on Vimeo.

Cartoon Octopus rig demo by Hector Abraham Torres. Hector is currently enrolled in Puppeteer Lounge training workshop program! Looking forward to seeing more of his awesome works!!

Cartoon Outline (Strokes) Facial Contol Setup

Facial Rigging Demo | Cartoon Brush Strokes - Comic Book Look from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Some R&D on comic book style cartoon outline facial control for Puppeteer Lounge cartoon character Newton! It sure is fun :)

Cartoon Outline (Strokes) Facial Contol Setup from Suchan Bajracharya on Vimeo.

Collision Offset Skin

collisionOffsetSkin from TianShaopeng on Vimeo.

This looks promising! Collision Offset Skin tool by Tian Shaopeng. Beta version download here.

Facial Setup by Ben Rosenstein

Facial Rigging by Ben Rosenstein | Student Demo Reel from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Facial rigging by one of my talented student Ben Rosenstein at Puppeteer Lounge. Looking forward to seeing more of his awesome works :)

Character Rigging by Andrew Coyle | Student Demo Reel

Character Rigging by Andrew Coyle | Student Demo Reel from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Cartoon horse rigging by one of my talented student Andrew Coyle. Andrew is currently enrolled in Puppeteer Lounge training workshop programs. Looking forward to seeing more of his awesome works :)

METRO Exodus

METRO Exodus from Platige Image on Vimeo.

METRO Exodus by Platige Image looks amazing!

Character Rigging by Onay Gunkut | Student Demo Reel

Character Rigging by Onay Gunkut | Student Demo Reel from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Cartoon character rigging demo by student Onay Gunkut at Puppeteer Lounge.

ZIVA VFX Quadruped Setup by Ben Rosenstein

ZIVA VFX Muscle Setup by Ben Rosenstein | Student Demo Reel from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

ZIVA VFX Quadruped "Tiger" setup and simulation by student Ben Rosenstein at Puppeteer Lounge.

advanced spine rig by Jules Giraud

Very impressive by one of my talented student Jules Giraud from France. I like how he have implemented several rig features to work together like the variable FK spine. Check it out!

Project Ryan by Agora Image

Project Ryan by Agora Image. I would like to congratulation one of my talented student Mohamed Dorgam and his team at Agora Image, Egypt for this achievement! CGI breakdown and making here.

Facial Rigging WIP Luis Garcia

Check out the WIP facial rigging project by student Luis Gerardo Garcia. I look forward to seeing his completed facial setup soon!