Our mentor Todd Widup shares a look at his rig and how to use the ML deformer in Maya 2025 to reduce complex deformations into a new smart deformer to help speed up your rig. If you want to learn how to use this on your rig and how to train it in a way […]
Author: Rigging Dojo

In this series, our friend and mentor, Jeremy Ernst goes through cleaning up a model purchased from a marketplace and shows the complete skinning game character for Unreal Engine.
Film, Games and Blender 2024! Brad was invited to give a short talk on Blender improvements and he shared some of the important features that generalists and animators should know, spotlighting all the new work over the years put into improving Blender. He also lead a workshop on general rigging tips and tricks and covered […]
Check out this behind the scenes look at the rigging tools created by our Face Rigging 101 mentor Morgan Loomis and used at Steamroller Animation. They are also now offering rigging services, so check out the information at the bottom of this post. If you want to learn from Morgan as he mentors you through […]
Updated FACS Cheat Sheet

Our friend Melinda Ozel, Expression Scientist and creator of the best resource to understand facial movement, her Face the FACS site, just got some new updates so go check it out!! ‘Face the FACS’ has some new treats for you. Just rolled out a few updates with additional facial action descriptions and a fresh batch […]
