Blender Rigging Workshops at Puppeteer Lounge

At Puppeteer Lounge, you can now learn to rig characters for film and games using Blender! Rigging Workshop 1, 2, Game Character Setup and Blender Rigify (Mini Workshop) is now available for purchase!

Rigging Demo Reel by Rayner Brian Hendry

Character rigging and muscle simulation by Puppeteer Lounge student Rayner Brian Hendry from Indonesia.

Bugs Bunny 2D Rig Demo

2D Bugs Bunny rig demo by Stephen Iosun. Very impressive!

Francesco Gioia, Rigging/Creature TD Demo Reel 2024

Check out these amazing show-reels by Puppeteer Lounge alumnus Francesco Gioia!

Cartoon spine rigging in Blender!

I have never thought that rigging in Blender would be so much fun! It opens a whole new possibilities of cartoon rigging. Here I experimented with creating a cartoon spine rig with limited number of controllers which is the primary of goal of puppet creation, keeping it simple. If you find it interesting and would like to learn to rig in Blender check out Puppeteer Lounge training workshop programs.

Fundamental difference between rigging in Maya & Blender

In this video I go over building a Spine Rig using Spline IK Handle in Maya and Blender! I am also delighted to share that Puppeteer Lounge is now offering rigging workshop 1 and 2 in Blender as well. Feel free to check out the program on here!

This is Gulu Mulu

GuluMulu is a CGI animation dance series by Puppeteer Lounge featuring Gulu, Mulu and Pika together with their friends. Brought to you by Puppeteer Lounge!

Ditch Your Smartphone & Start Using Dumbphone!

In a world where many of us are glued to our smartphones, I have ditched mine. Here is my two cents on WHY!? 🙏 This post is a irrevalent to my regular CGI related post but I am sharing it for a social cause!

KREA AI "This will blow your Mind!" | Realtime 3D CGI to AI Imagery

With the advent of AI imagery we have been digging into it's future prospect in 3D CGI animation context. This video goes over a real-time screen sharing between Maya view-port which is converted into a AI generated digital double in Krea AI viewport. I am pretty much sure that in the future, 3D softwares like Maya and Blender will implement these AI features for productivity boost!