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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Whew! Part 3b is up and available now! I’m finding that it’s taking about 2 hours or so to convert each section to be available for download through lulu, so at this rate hopefully I’ll be done by the end of the week! 🙂 Go straight to the page, or check out the preview video:
I’ve started working on getting Part 3 up and available. This morning I finished with Part 3a. This section discusses arms, and how to handle switching between FK and IK. It also looks at locking down elbows, and a whole bunch of fun stuff! Go straight to the page, or check out the preview video: […]
In my continued quest to get all the Animator Friendly Rigging tutorials available, I’ve just finished uploading Part 2b – the continuation of Part 2a. This part focuses on finishing the Torso rig, and gets into the head and neck. It’s quite a long one.. the movie file that comes with it is over 800 […]
Continuing with the act of getting the Animator Friendly Rigging series up and running, I’ve now got Part 2a available for purchae from lulu.com! Just as before with part 1, I’ve uploaded an example pdf with about 13 or so pages demonstrating some of the documentation, and also provided a 6+ minute example video (low […]
Heya folks! As I mentioned earlier, the Animator Friendly Rigging instructional series will no longer be available through Autodesk. It’s been a great run with Autodesk, and they have done a wonderful job selling the series. However, they decided that they will no longer be selling the DVD online. I have received such great feedback […]