Category: Rigging

Lots of people have been interested in the results of the “Pay What You Want” sale I’m having on my older rigging dvds, so I thought I’d go ahead and post some of the results! The news has been all over this idea lately.. especially with folks like Louis CK being so incredibly successful with […]
Attempting to try "Pay What You Want" system for older DVD training material!
Howdy kids! Happy saturday! I’ve upgraded the forum to now be using Vanilla Forums which I really like.. it’s fast, easy to use, and seems to suit my purposes quite nicely! sweet. I’ve also been working behind the scenes a bit to simplify the site. You will be seeing some changes over the next few […]
One of the things that people have asked me about over the years is why are there two different versions of the shelves in the Animator Friendly Rigging series.  There’s an OSX version and a PC version.  They also ask about whether or not there is a linux version. The only version of Maya I […]
Heya folks!   Sorry it’s been so long since any updates and posts on my site! As most of you know, I’ve been very busy for the past three years as Head of Character Animation on Dreamwork’s  Megamind . It was quite an exciting and amazing journey, but VERY very very busy! Once the movie […]
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 […]
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 Animator Friendly Rigging DVD series […]
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 the […]
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.
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 bundle, I’m continuing […]