modCharSetup version 1
First release of the modCharSetup (short for Modular Character Setup) for Maya is now available for download. Please peruse modCharSetup 101 to learn how to use it.
To download the file click here: modCharSetup v1.
To install, just unzip…
modCharSetup (v1) 101
modCharSetup
is a Maya Character Setup set of scripts that allows a rigger to automate the setting up of characters in a manner that is modular. Parts of the character are divided into multiple different parts that are independent…
Quickly Batch Mocap Conversion
In my thrill in the discovery of the mother load of free motioncapture data, I downloaded all the animations, which were made up of ASF files (skeleton setups) and matching AMC files (motion captured animation). The total download was more than 2 gigabytes.
The Librarian
* FK-IK blend
* Stretch
* Ribbon Controls
* Facial Controls
* Smears
* Proxy, Low, High Display Modes
Flying-Fox v1
An animators best friend is not a dog. Flying Fox is an animator friendly rig that allows you to squash and stretch according to a direction and a position that you choose. It will also allow you to shape the rig according to how you would prefer to draw it with the use of “super-controls”. Any pose is possible! It also has a tail and ears that work with the rest of the rig nicely. Watch the video to see how to use the controls.
Fast, Easy, Flexible UI
User Interfaces has been around for decades. For a while we had been using text input UI’s. There was a huge following for the voice-activated UI’s. But the most prevalent and most used UI is the graphic UI. People have been reinventing it ever since it’s first conception.
Little Warrior Rig
Here’s my first try at rigging characters. I think it’s perfect for first-time animators. It’s a knight with his head hammered with a huge mallet forcing his entire body to fit inside his helmet. Haha! It’s actually a rig with just the legs. A bit of flexed added to the hair to add more dynamism to the overall rig. It’s good if you want to practice your walk cycles. I included mine as a video example.
BIT
robot_bitHow would you like to have a rig that you could manipulate to your heart’s desire? Something with limbs that react like an accordion. In production, I believe, they call this ribbon spline control. It allows an animator to control a rig and make it bend to his wishes–almost as easy as drawing out the pose. BIT, the bending and stretching robot rig, can do this. It is fitted with with ribbon splines on each limb, body and neck (practically everywhere) allowing his accordion-like limbs to stretch and bend to your wishes.
Little Warrior Rig Playlist
I once made a rig, when I was a student, called Little Warrior Rig. Occasionally, youtube would send me an update telling me someone posted a video of animation using LWR. I checked recently and found quite a number of…
Figure Drawing
Figure drawing is an exercise in drawing the human body in its various shapes and positions. “Life drawing” is the process of drawing the human figure from observation of a live model. Figure drawing is arguably the most difficult…
Slip of Tongue
It’s been a year. This here is the student animation project we did along with Ang Jhy Yang and Marvin Moreno. It took us three months less. I liked it less after the music was added. :wacky: No offense, though.…
Don Quixote
I did this for Tinay when we were given sculpting projects in 3dsense as students. I saw it as an opportunity to make something for her. I looked for concepts around me and within me. I drew inspiration from…
Drawings
I decided to post pictures of some of my artworks here. Some of them are too big for the scanner, so I scanned multiple times and combined them. That means a bit of artifacts here and there, I hope you’d…
Chick-a-rus
This here is a presentation I made today that I decided to share with everyone. It’s a storyboard, pretty basic, about a story that is familiar and yet fantastic. It’s familiar because if you look deep within you, you will realize the story is actually about you too. It’s a true story you see about true triumph of love over limitations. It’s a story of going against the odds. It’s a story about a chick named Icarus who chooses to defy gravity. It’s a story about a chick who falls in love with flying even though, as we all know chickens don’t fly. Much less, chicks.
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redesigndavid.me was created to offer CG artists guidance. I had been teaching Rigging and Visual Effects full-time for some time now and the stuff I’ve learned has been so rewarding, I have no other recourse but to share.In this site, I offer scripts, rigs and tutorials, all products of my own pair of hands–unless specified otherwise. I'll try to share as much as I could of things that I think would make a well rounded CG artist complete.
