Rigging DojoWhen I’m teaching myself things, sometimes I get stuck and it just takes someone to explain it from a different perspective to make it click. Also, there is only so much you can learn from tutorials, having someone with knowledge and experience to guide and support you is invaluable.
October 31st 2014 Artist in Residence (A.I.R) Live With Josh Carey Rigging Dojo Co-Founder and Rigging Supervisor Reel FX Friday 2/3pm central Josh, taking a break after finishing up “The Book of Life” is currently teaching on location in Denmark so we have an earlier time than our other AIR events. Also we want […]
Autodesk MotionBuilder 2014 Service Pack 1 | MotionBuilder | Autodesk Knowledge Network Long time coming, and much needed if you haven’t moved to 2015 yet.
A rig is the animators pencil, as such it has to allow the animator to get from pose A to B with out freaking out (aka wobbling) and should also be editable from the graph editor to create predictable results during the polish pass.
None of this is possible with out having first set up a clean skeleton with proper joint orients (how the joints aim) and Second controlling the order that Maya applies the EULER rotation animation to the transform node (rotation order).
Mocappy – Your Guide to Capturing and Editing Motion We have a PDF excerpt from our Class from years back that covers this but this is a nice updated description of the control rig in Motionbuilder. Good site overall for MotionBuilder foundation work when you are first getting used to MotionBuilder. Brad