iPhone X Realtime 3D Character Animation by Jimmy Gunawan

DEMO / Using iPhone X to stream real time facial animation data into Blender from Jimmy Gunawan on Vimeo.

Good experimentation by Puppeteer Lounge alumnus Jimmy Gunawan with real-time facial motion capture using iPhoneX. We are looking forward to collaborate with him on creation a training workshop to go over these setup! :)

Puppeteer Lounge former student Jimmy Gunawan on YouTube

Procedural Facial Muscle Tension and Compression experimentation and R&D by Puppeteer Lounge former student Jimmy Gunawan. Be sure to check out his channel for Computer Graphics, Animation and Experimental Videos inside Maya, Houdini and Blender.

 Puppeteer Lounge Rigging Workshop.

Jimmy Gunawan now works at Luma Pictures

Congratulation!!

I would like to congratulate my multi-talented student and a good friedn Jimmy Gunawan. Jimmy recently got hired at Luma Pictures as a Rigging TD. Wish him the very best :D

Jimmy's Blender Blog: http://blendersushi.blogspot.com/
Jimmy's Maya Blog: http://mayaspiral.blogspot.com.au/
Jimmy's Houdini Blog: http://houdoodles.blogspot.com/

Graduates: http://www.puppeteerlounge.com/graduates
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http://www.puppeteerlounge.com/
http://www.lumapictures.com/

Bendy Bones by Jimmy Gunawan

A snapshot of bendy bones from Puppeteer Lounge's Cartoon Character Rigging Workshop in Blender by student Jimmy Gunawan.

Our students are really happy with the whole thing. Stay posted for our upcoming student rigging reel in Blender!

If you would like to learn character rigging in Blender, apply here for the upcoming session (Group workshop starts mid October): http://www.puppeteerlounge.com/apply

Blender Rigging Workshop starts at $240 only.
http://www.puppeteerlounge.com/blender-workshop

P.S. Character model from our Modeling Workshop.
http://www.puppeteerlounge.com/modeling-workshop

Blender Facial Rigging Snapshot by Jimmy

Student Jimmy Gunawan from Australia posted a quick snapshot from our Blender Rigging Workshop with the tagline:

"Gasp!" at Jeremy's Joint Based Advanced Facial Rig Kind of like how complicated it is. Understanding this really well, and every organic creature is easy to rig."

Join us if you would like to start learning character rigging in #Blender with Jeremy Davidson (from Sintel, Tears of Steel...)!

More Info: http://www.puppeteerlounge.com/blender-workshop
Apply here: http://www.puppeteerlounge.com/apply
Email: info@puppeteerlounge.com

Jimmy Gunawan sends his regards to PL

Jimmy Gunawan from Australia sends his regards to Puppeteer Lounge after receiving a surprise gift

"Thanks for Puppeteer Lounge T-Shirt from Nepal. It's a surprise gift. Would like to visit Nepal and meditate one day :]

The best private mentoring for Rigging: www.puppeteerlounge.com 

Kind regards from Sydney, Australia. - Me and a borrowed Corgi." ~ Jimmy Gunawan

Check out his blog on Maya goodness!
Check out his blog on  Blender sweetness!

Jimmy's Postcard

You must all be familiar with Jimmy Gunawan and all the experimental fun stuff he does and shares at his blog.

Well, he recently completed his course in advance character rigging workshop from Puppeteer Lounge! He sent us this digital postcard all the way from Sydney, Australia. We want to wish him all the very best in his endeavers and career! ~ Namaste Jimmy ;)

Below you can browse through his online libraries!

http://about.me/jimmygunawan/bio
http://www.theloop.com.au/enzyme/resume
http://blendersushi.blogspot.com.au
http://houdoodles.blogspot.com.au
http://mayaspiral.blogspot.com.au
http://puppetar.blogspot.com.au
https://vimeo.com/enzym

Apply now to learn like Jimmy :)

SOuP Development ~ Peter & Jimmy

Check out some awesome examples featured at SOuP development by Peter Shipkov! Tons of Houdini like features in Maya. The really cool stuff is that Peter Shipkov just created Tension BlendShape SOuP node and it now has been added to SOuP Toolbox!

My awesome regards to  Peter Shipkov and of course Jimmy Gunawan, one of my brilliant student for sharing with us. Feel free to check out Jimmy's blog for awesome resources and his crazy experiments :)

Here is Jimmy's latest post on implementing the Tension BlendShape SOuP node into "Maka" which features in Puppeteer Lounge facial rigging workshop. Below is the video demo! He has done a really nice experiment.

Jimmy's Blog

Let me introduce to you all Mr. Jimmy Gunawan from Sydney, Australia. He has been studying Advance Character Rigging from Puppeteer Lounge and me being his personal online mentor. I have to say that he is a really passionate and a very diligent artist with bright future ahead of him. I wish him the very best!

Feel free to check out some of his works and resourceful stuff that he put together in his Blog! He got tons of useful tips, resource, ideas and experiments :)

Below is one of his recent work featuring a "deformation" calisthenics test using Corrective Blendshapes driven by SOup (by Peter Shipkov) tension map on Tejo!




Below are some of his recent experiments and breakthroughs:
http://mayaspiral.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/soup-multi-attribute-transfer-x.html
http://mayaspiral.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/rigging-simple-tips-on-character-control.html