One of my favorite blogs for helping me become a better professional artist is the Accidental Creative. They do a really great job of coaching on how to maintain creative excellence and deliver a product on time. As someone who has been in the industry for a long time, I’m very used to seeing artists […]
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 […]
Plastic Animation Paper – PAP:Pro 4.0 for free. Woah! plastic animation paper for free! sweeeeeeeeeeet!
A number of people have said how much they enjoy the js_greasePencil script I wrote a while ago, but they’ve been having trouble downloading the movie that shows how it works. So I uploaded the movie to youtube and put it on the downloads page. You can also see it here: Some day I’d like […]
I received an email yesterday from a person who purchased the Animator Friendly Rigging series and found that two mel scripts were missing: js_matchObj.mel and js_matchObjUI.mel. I’ve heard of others missing these as well, so I added them to the downloads page, along with js_iterator.mel. If you’re missing them.. enjoy! note: you must be logged […]
A number of people have asked what specifially is covered in my two DVDs – Integrating a Creature Rig Withing a Production Pipeline and Fast Animation Rigs, so here ya go! Integrating a Creature Rig Into a Production Pipeline Definition of a “Pipeline” Examples: Film, Modeling, Shot Determining how animation rig itself fits into the […]
Now on to part III of my series on using OOCalc to track your Magic The Gathering card collection. If you’ve missed parts 1 and 2, you may want to check them out, since part 3 builds upon those two bits. Seriously, go read them. You’ll be missing out on some pretty neato spreadsheet magic. […]
In my last post on Tracking your Magic The Gathering Collection, I introduced the technique on using the VLOOKUP function to help find prices for individual objects based on a previously defined price list. If you recall, we ended up with two tables.. a price list and an itemized list of things we’re going to […]
Just recently some friends at work have started playing Magic The Gathering again. MTG was one of the first collectible card games from Wizards of the Coast. I got a bit hooked on it back in the late 90’s and used to play quite a lot with friends. The “official” definition from Wikipedia goes as […]
I happen to have some incredibly talented cousins.. you’ve all heard about my fab photographer cousin Erica Berger. Another georgeous and awesome cousin Zeva Bellel has a great site called Paris By Appointment Only. Now, one of my cousins from my dad’s side of the family has started this really cool project called The Grok […]