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2016 year of the Technical Director

“Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” That quote could easily be talking about jobs and TDs, as 2016 so far has started out with a long list of studios looking to hire Technical Directors for character rigging, pipeline and character FX while being unable to find anyone. The problem is there are not […]

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Free Cartoon Rabbit Rig – Making of

Rigging Dojo alumnus, Arman Musovic, Free Cartoon Rabbit Rig – Making of interivew Rigging Dojo alumnus Arman Musovic an all around excellent TD before coming to train with us has created and shared a very nice free cartoon Rabbit Rig for animators to use and we wanted to know more about his process and experience […]

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3ds Max to Maya : Quick node translation guide

3ds Max® translation to Maya® Character TD jobs require cross discipline understanding and something we get often are artists transitioning to Maya from Max and have a hard time with the way Maya approaches things like transforms. To make it worse, often times the same name means something diffrent in both software but they almost […]

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Rigging Dojo’s Artist in Residence (AIR) : July- Sterling Reames

July (AIR) :  Sterling Reames Wednesday July 30th at 6:30PM EST psssst….links to free stuff at the bottom 🙂 Our next live AIR meeting will be Wednesday July 30th at 6:30PM EST/5:30CST We would love to have you join the conversation by subscribe here. Our Artist in Residence will be Sterling Reames. Find him on […]

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Rigging Dojo AIR subscription excerpt: Easy skinning

Are you already a subscriber to our Artist in Residence program? If yes, leave a comment and let us and others know how it has benefited you, we love feedback. With several current students and others posting for help with skinning and deformation over on Twitter, we wanted to help by sharing some helpful tips […]