Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Monday, December 10, 2018

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

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

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 :)

Friday, November 23, 2018

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!

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

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 :)

Thursday, October 4, 2018

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:

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Sunday, September 23, 2018

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

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".

Thursday, August 23, 2018

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.

Sunday, August 19, 2018

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 :)

Thursday, August 16, 2018

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!

Thursday, August 9, 2018

Friday, July 20, 2018

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 :)

Monday, July 16, 2018

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

Wednesday, July 4, 2018

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!

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

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.

Monday, June 11, 2018

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.

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Bull fighter by khalil khalilian

Bull fighter from khalil khalilian on Vimeo.

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

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

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.

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Sunday, April 22, 2018

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

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

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

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.

Monday, March 19, 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.

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

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.

Monday, March 12, 2018

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.

Sunday, March 11, 2018

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.

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Monday, March 5, 2018

Rigging Reel by Yang Mengjing



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

Monday, February 5, 2018

Monday, January 22, 2018

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.

Friday, January 12, 2018

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! :)