Workflow Video Above: "Apologies for the recording was trying not to wake my daughter" Create Patch, Skin Patch, Transfer back.... One of...

Recently finished doing some blend shape work on a character. In which we used the automated software to create facial animation. I often...

Hi peeps, its been a while today is a public holiday so time for some blogging. Namespaces useful! So heres a nice little script that...

Follow Me! This is sort of an addendum to the FFD squash and stretch post and I recently figured this out of the last stylised show I...

You Can Never Have Enough Offset Controls Why Offsets? It should pretty rudimentary but offset controls are not just for show they do...

Help is on the way! I recently was asked for a really easy but extremely useful request from a senior animator. I would like to be able...

I was working on a talking pig commercial where the character chews and talks. The animator requested some type of control. I made one...

Going Up Going Down! I recently had someone remark on the shapes were super clean in the trailer we just released. Long story short: The...

Stretchhhhhhhh!!! So anyone who knows me knows I'm a fan of simple setups. Let me show you an idea that gives the illusion of skin...

Skin Cages Hi everyone hope your week is going great. Here's a great little technique for rigging a complicated mesh. I have a shot...

Tigers I dont know i just love em... Animation by the incredibly talented Kate Knott Reusing The Fix Hind Leg Setup, Squash and Stretch....

So a while ago i worked with an animator who requested that she had the ability to shape the wing after the bird tucks in the arm. The FK...

Fang it! In this test I'm revisiting the setup I did on the FWD rig. On a motorbike the only attribute required is damping, Which as...

FFDs FTW! Model by Chad Stubblefield Another request came in last year for the My Freaky Family movie this character is not from that...

Pivot!!! After working on my last project i was fortunate to design the rigging tools and framework . During this time i had the immense...

Horsing around... Renders supplied by Artists In Motion Sydney Issue If you have ever rigged a quadruped you may have ran into this...

Off The Chain... When embarking on the task to rig up a vehicle its a good idea to consider the other secondary animations at play for...

Leaving them in suspense Supplied by Artists in Motion. Another issue we faced is getting around crashing through the ground especially...

Getting it rolling! From Artists in Motion at the LIWA festival 2023 You may have come across this rather annoying thing that a standard...

Model supplied by Chad Stubblefield. Oh face... Solving the mouth corner narrow shape issue.... So Essentially I've used my out of the...