Get to know: Isabella Cheng – Technical Artist and Rigging Dojo Alumna Isabella Cheng Technical Artist at Survios Let’s get started with a bit of background about you, were you always in to computer programming and tech? I was always into games and computers. I went to school at USC for Computer Science with the notion…
Customizing Radical Heights – Part 2 In this post I will step over the process the artist will run through to get the assets ready for game. The artists can import the mesh from any DCC they choose to create the assets within. The setup process itself is handled entirely in Maya. Part 1 can…
Source: Tech Animator Dump: Customizing Radical Heights – Part 1 Randall Hess Customizing Radical Heights – Part 1 My work on Boss Key Productions most recent project, Radical Heights, focused a lot on character customization. In this post I’m going to discuss the process and creation of a customizable character for Radical Heights. Having previously…
Something that comes up often is dealing with hip vs root bone motion and having to either add or remove it to work with diffrent game engines or mix and match move sets. If you are a AAA team and have tech artists and experienced editors it is a challenge but if you are an…
Move Weights tool, a little known tool that you should be using to make skinning easier and allow for added control in a pinch. TDs can use it to speed up skinning by copying good weighting to new joints for twist, like shoulders to a few new twist joints in the upper arm for example….
