Thursday, December 29, 2011

Mac 'n' Cheese - Making of



Check this out people, this is suberb! The magic of twist deformer! Awesome Work :)

How Wings Work



In this video the presenter goes over how bird's wing work in detail. This is a really good resource to see how the bird's wing is articulated!

Monday, December 26, 2011

Reverse foot rolll with maya nodes



Check out this rigging tutorial by Marco on setting up a reverse foot setup using maya nodes unlink using traditional set-driven keys or expression! Kinda long video but he did a good job explaining ;)

Sunday, December 25, 2011

iPad GUI with 3DSMAX



Check out this cool test video by Iker showing an ipad touch screen GUI to control the facial rig in 3dsMax. Iker mentions that he used TouchOSC and Motion Capture controllers on 3DSMAX to create an interface that allows the user to set expressions on the character using an iPad!

Love Birds ;)



Check out my little video on little love birds in action! The video was captured with Samsung Galaxy SII.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Le Building



A funny Short film by Olivier Staphylas for his final thesis project at the French animation school "Gobelins". He is currently Head of Animation at Dreamworks!

Check out the making of this amazing short below... The technique used in the short to create a blend of 2D and 3D is really cool. The rigs are really nice to look at :)

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

multi layered body and facial rig



Fantastic super cartoony ~ multi layered body and facial rig demo by Ehsan H.M! No wonder it took him 31 days to rig :)

Monday, December 19, 2011

Manar Al Tawam - Reel 2010



Very impressive work by Manar Al Tawam specially for the reason that he worked on all of the components!