If you’ve been watching the site at all this weekend, you’ll notice a few things moving around and some new images coming up.
I’m really hoping that the community forum becomes a great hub for people to discuss the Animator Friendly Rigging series. If you’ve bought the dvds, please come chat about your experience using them! If you’re thinking about buying them, come ask questions!
Hope you’re all doing well, and I will see you in the forums!
-jason
I’ve added a post on how to fix the -labelAlign warning that some people have been getting with a few of the scripts in Maya 2011.
Check it out..
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 weeks.. hopefully it’ll make everything just easier to find and any issues people have will be easier to fix!
booyah!
For some reason today I’m into typing a paragraph, then finish it with a single word exclamation. I’m not sure why. Must be because I’m hungry for lunch.
Shazing!
Anywhooo.. come check out the community forum! I’ve moved the downloads that were previously under a Downloads heading over to that thar community space.. enjoy it!
You can log in with Twitter, your google id, or just log in regularly. Fancy feast of awesomeness! 
Heya folks!
I think I’ll have a little time this week to update some stuff after work, and was thinking that it might be useful to update the Animator Friendly Rigging shelf.
My thought is that I would combine all four AFR shelves into one.. including all icons (in png format). The trick is.. it would check and see if you have the appropriate scripts installed before displaying the icon. Thus, only one shelf necessary to install!
Is it worth it? What do you think?
Howdy folks!
I’ve added a forum to the site in order to foster better communication between all the amazingly wonderful people who have purchased and/or used the Animator Friendly Rigging tools. I get a number of emails and questions about various tips, techniques, etc.. and I realized that there are probably lots of people interested in finding out the answers to these questions.
So I’m trying this new forum software.. it is relatively simple, but the nice thing is that you can log in with your standard facebook, twitter, openID, etc accounts. Cool!
Anyway, let’s give it a shot and see how well it works!
http://jasonschleifer.com/afr-community
thanks all!
-jason
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 personally own is the OSX version, so I’m unable to test the shelves on anything else.
It used to be the case that the icons on the Mac used to need to be in .iff format, while the pc versions had to be .bmp.
I think that with 2011, Maya allows for .png files for all of their icons, but I’m not positive. I’ve attached a zip file to this post that has the shelf for part 1 of the Animator Friendly Rigging series with new icons in .png format.
Would anyone be willing to download them and test to see if they work on Windows, and/or Linux?
Thanks very much, I appreciate it!
-jason
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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 finished, I immediately started working on the short “The Button of Doom” which released with the DVD a few weeks ago.
After that I took a really lovely 3 weeks off to just relax with the family, and then came back to work as a supervising animator on another short that will be released sometime soon hopefully!
In addition to that, I’m working on some new technology at work, AND getting ready to head up the animation for another film at dreamworks that comes out in a few years.
So yeah, I’ve been busy!
Anyway, back to the Animator Friendly Rigging series! I’ve had a number of requests to find out whether or not the series works with Maya 2011. I’ve started working through it to see where the issues are, and one of the first ones I’ve resolved is a quick fix to the js_createTwistySegmentUI.mel script to make sure that the WorldScale Enable/Disable checkbox works correctly.
You can download it here: js_createTwistySegmentUI
I’m hoping to start blogging again a bit more regularly.. I apologize for slacking so hard!
Now that I’m done with megamind (woo!) I get to wait patiently for the world to be able to see it!
It’s really exciting to start to see posters, commercials, etc. I can’t wait for the reviews to start coming in!
One of the other exciting things is that the art of megamind book is going to be available soon! Check out this video and the review.. woo!
Heya folks!
Sorry for the lack of updates lately! We’re in the final few weeks of finishing up animation on Megamind, and I’m a bit busy at the moment.
I’ll get back on track with updates and stuff after we wrap! Woo!
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