cloth TEJO by Damien VIE

Tejo is no more a shameless beast lol thanks to Puppeteer Lounge student Damien Vie! Loved it Damien. But seriously he needs a longer skirt :P

Lost In Nazca (GAME) ~ Rig & Animation Reel

Rigging and animation reel featuring the in-game characters from the upcoming game "Lost In Nazca" by 5th Space Studios. We at Puppeteer Lounge have collaborated with 5th Space Studios creating rigs and animation for the in-game characters and props, most of which are featured in this video.

Just to let you know, the Executive Producer and Director at 5th Space Studios, Dave Cardwell is a founding member and creator of "Skymatter", proprietary sculpting tool of Weta Digital later sold to Autodesk and known as "MudBox"! Dave won the Science and Technical award from the Academy.

We are working hard to finish the game...

Enjoy! The music is from the game :)

For projects, visit us at Puppeteer Lounge!

Animus rig by Nick Miller.

Animus rig by Nick Miller. The rig is available for download at Creative Crash. Go grab it! Cheers :)

Student Feedback ~ Frank Guthrie

We are always happy to hear good stuffs from our students!

Frank Guthrie (USA) ~ "…When one of my clients asked for the model I designed and modeled for them to be "animation-ready," I discovered how rusty my rigging skills were… Puppeteer Lounge got me up and running in a matter of days! something other schools would have taken weeks, if not months and with ridiculous expense. Suchan's experience, knowledge and - specially with me, patiences, made this whole process not only easy to understand, but most important… enjoyable! My client not only was impressed with the rigging, but has commissioned more characters for his project. I recommend Puppeteer Lounge to anyone who wants to get up and running with rigging quickly and with confidence…"

Feel free to check out Frank's website. He is exceptionally good at sculpting and character animation! Thank you for choosing to learn from us Frank :)

I am really looking forward for some awesome facial rigs by Frank!

Tough Guy Facial Rig Test With Wireframe Overlay

Cartoony facial rig test by Andrew Silke!

The Wrath Trailer

The Wrath Trailer v002 LoRes from Antoine Cunnningham on Vimeo.

Puppeteer Lounge student Antoine Cunningham shares with us a trailer for his upcoming short "The Wrath"!

Röntgenfilm III / X-Ray Film III

Röntgenfilm III / X-Ray Film III from Fleischarchive on Vimeo.

Old but a great resource for anatomy and deformation.

Maya Muscle Rig by Naweed Khan

Maya Muscle Rig from naweed Khan on Vimeo.

Puppeteer Lounge student Naweed Khan demonstrates muscular deformation to maintain volume and get quick squash and stretch behavior! 

Naweed is a very enthusiastic person and always keen to learn and come up with good looking works. I wish him the very best and thank him for choosing to learn from us at Puppeteer Lounge.  

Looking forward to hear and see great stuffs from him in the near future :)

CGI portrait of Jackie Chan by Lim

CGI portrait of Jackie Chan by Puppeteer Lounge student Lim Shan Fei! Loved it. Great job Lim :)