A bit more tweaking needed but heres where its at:
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
MEL and Max Rigs
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?! Thats right, I was switchin it up. MaxScript is so damn useful but I didnt really know too much about MEL so I dusted off the ol' books and started crankin' out some code!
As an animator, I dont exactly have a degree in C# or shader programming, but I figure if you know what you are dealing with, you can be that much better.
I also played with this guy a bit.
I mostly was dissecting his rig and seeing what makes him tick though as I got into it I decided to make a quick animation with him. Ill be doing that today.
If you are interested in the rig I found it here.
The author of this character is Josh Burton.
However all that rigging and coding got me all sorts of amped to animate something. Sooooo...I did this:
As an animator, I dont exactly have a degree in C# or shader programming, but I figure if you know what you are dealing with, you can be that much better.

I mostly was dissecting his rig and seeing what makes him tick though as I got into it I decided to make a quick animation with him. Ill be doing that today.
If you are interested in the rig I found it here.
The author of this character is Josh Burton.
However all that rigging and coding got me all sorts of amped to animate something. Sooooo...I did this:
Monday, February 15, 2010
Fun with motion graphics
Motion graphics animated opening for Jade Swell's demoreel. Used in this was After Effects with Trapcode Particular plugin, 3DS Max and Nuke.
Replaying in firefox: Firefox has some kind of bug where you can't see the controls in a quicktime mov unless its skinned on top of the video embed. You can either guess where it is (the timecode and controls are there, just invisible), or you can double click the play area to get it to Pause/Play. Hope this helps.
Replaying in firefox: Firefox has some kind of bug where you can't see the controls in a quicktime mov unless its skinned on top of the video embed. You can either guess where it is (the timecode and controls are there, just invisible), or you can double click the play area to get it to Pause/Play. Hope this helps.
A few from 2009
Found a bunch of playblasts and tests from 2009...Fun fun!
Just double click on any of them to see them work or if you can actually see the play controls, use those. (Theres a bug with firefox and quicktime pro..blegh)
Just double click on any of them to see them work or if you can actually see the play controls, use those. (Theres a bug with firefox and quicktime pro..blegh)
DVD Intro | I was told you could only have one cryptic rig per scene. Muahaha. I contest this! |
I was playing with different rigging methods for this one. Riggers everywhere would cry if they saw this ones modifier stack. Poor Zero. | A rig off Kiel's site. Thought it was pretty sick nasty so I played with it for a night. |
Unsheathing the giant Wrench of doom! | "Hi!" |
A clip from Harold and Kumar 2. Thought it was the funny. Used Pete's rig for it. | A wizard. |
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Terminal Unlock
This is a neat little thing I did for my Zero animation. After Zero walks into the room this opens up to greet him.
I basically made this while I had a bit of an artists block, bored as hell, at 2 am. Modeled in 35 minutes, textured in 0, heh.
Thinking about it, I probably should have had the screws screwing OUTWARDS rather than inwards, though it doesnt look all that bad like this either.
Replaying in firefox: Firefox has some kind of bug where you can't see the controls in a quicktime mov unless its skinned on top of the video embed. You can either guess where it is (the timecode and controls are there, just invisible), or you can double click the play area to get it to Pause/Play. Hope this helps.
I basically made this while I had a bit of an artists block, bored as hell, at 2 am. Modeled in 35 minutes, textured in 0, heh.
Thinking about it, I probably should have had the screws screwing OUTWARDS rather than inwards, though it doesnt look all that bad like this either.
Replaying in firefox: Firefox has some kind of bug where you can't see the controls in a quicktime mov unless its skinned on top of the video embed. You can either guess where it is (the timecode and controls are there, just invisible), or you can double click the play area to get it to Pause/Play. Hope this helps.
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02/14
Figured Id start a blog as it would be easier to update than my official site and would get me more inclined to post all the stuff I do.
Although I can animate in both max and maya (LOVE max trajectories but admittedly maya's curve editor is lightyears ahead of max's...blast you autodesk/discreet/alias!); I am admittedly much better at modeling and rigging in max. So I spent the day seeing what was out there for maya rigs to play with as I was in a maya mood. Tons of fun stuff I gotta say! Ill upload that stuff once I figure out how haha.
Although I can animate in both max and maya (LOVE max trajectories but admittedly maya's curve editor is lightyears ahead of max's...blast you autodesk/discreet/alias!); I am admittedly much better at modeling and rigging in max. So I spent the day seeing what was out there for maya rigs to play with as I was in a maya mood. Tons of fun stuff I gotta say! Ill upload that stuff once I figure out how haha.
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