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Comic Con Panel – Megamind with Will Ferrell

On July 22, 2010 · 1 Comment

Comic Con Panel – Megamind with Will Ferrell.

There was a megamind panel at comicon this morning at 10, and the buzz is coming back that it was a lot of fun!  They showed 5 minutes of the movie, which has shots from all through the film.. Everything should [...]

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AFR Discount for Animation Mentor Students and Alumni!

On July 8, 2010 · 8 Comments

You know I love Animation Mentor.  Not only is it one of the best places to learn character animation in the world, but the founders and the staff are such awesome human beings that they infuse the entire Animation Mentor experience with pure, unfiltered, pure awesome.  Seriously.. you just mention “Animation Mentor” to someone and [...]

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AFR Discount for RiggingDojo students!

On July 1, 2010 · 1 Comment

I’m super jazzed about what the awesome people at Rigging Dojo are doing to help people interested in character rigging learn more about the craft.  They’re all fantastic teachers, excellent riggers, and just darn-right awesome human beings.  I’m really excited to be able to offer a 10% discount on the

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After 2 solid weeks, GTD still going strong!

On June 14, 2010 · 11 Comments

I’ve stuck pretty rigidly to my GTD plan these past two weeks and I can really feel a difference in my stress level and my ability to feel like I’m on top of everything on my plate.

I’ve modified my toodledo system a tiny bit.  Previously I mentioned that I had 4 folders set [...]

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AFR Rivalry.. sweet!

On May 31, 2010 · 2 Comments

One of the things that I’ve always said is that the techniques I discuss in Animator Friendly Rigging can be used in almost any package. The main idea is that even though the tutorials come with all sorts of mel scripts and files and explicit instructions for Maya, what people should take away are [...]

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Using toodledo for GTD and Inbox Zero

On May 29, 2010 · 9 Comments

I’m such a dork.

This past week I’ve been doing my darndest to try and maintain a zero-sized inbox, both at home and at work.  This is an incredibly daunting task.  As work I receive a TON of email every day.  And by a ton, I mean a metric buttload of email.

One quick example.. [...]

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Animator Friendly Rigging Walk Cycle

On May 28, 2010 · 10 Comments

A couple of years ago I posted this walkcycle workflow demo on YouTube.. it shows me using the AFR rig to do a walk.

Thought it might be interesting to put it up again in case people haven’t seen it before.

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Animator Friendly Rigging Part 4 examples available

On May 28, 2010 · 5 Comments

I’ve now added the Animator Friendly Rigging – Part 4 page to the website, complete with example pdf files and links to the example youtube movies.

Here’s an example of the movie for part 4a:

Now that all of the parts are up and available for purchase either independently, or as a

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Animator Friendly Rigging – All Products Now Available!

On May 25, 2010 · 19 Comments

Heya folks!

I have some great news!  As of tonight, the entire 8 set of Animator Friendly Rigging materials are available for purchase from my new store at fastspring.com!

You can buy bit individually for $14.99 a piece, or you can jump in with both feet and buy the entire set at once!  If you [...]

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Delay in full AFR being available..

On May 22, 2010 · 4 Comments

Hey folks,

Sorry for the delay in the rest of the AFR series being available. The content is ready, but I’m having trouble getting it available on lulu.com. For some reason the movies aren’t uploading correctly, so I’m not able to make a product for purchasing.

I’m looking into alternative vendors besides lulu.. if any [...]

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