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Optimizing Rigs for Parallel Evaluation, success story “Goro”

Find out about this great rig and how our course helped him speed it up! Mason, can you tell us a little about the project  “I’ve worked as the rigger, alongside a team of nine incredible artists on the SCAD capstone film “Goro Goro“. The film follows the story of Daigoro, a baby thunder god, […]

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Blazing fast character rigs with Maya

Ready for a deep dive look at how to work thorough your rig to learn how to clean up all those legacy assets that need to move fast and get your animators up and running with as many FPS as possible? Check out our ondemand training Rigging Dojo Ondemand: Optimizing Rigs for Parallel Evaluation Updated […]

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Cult of Rig : Season 00 Day 009 Applying Math to Fix Components

The rig as you see it by the end of this session, plus a little bit of crud cleaned out, is now available at http://www.cultofrig.com/resources/re… If you’ve fallen behind but still want to nodel with me, now you can catch up. Or just take it apart 🙂 Season 00 Day009 Stream – Applying Math to […]

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Cult of Rig : Season 00 Day 008 Math Crash Course

Season 00 Day 008 Stream – Math Crash Course – Trigonometry and Matrix Mult Trig is the study and solution of triangles…or all angles Starting with Trigonometry as it is a basic and good place to start vs. starting with linear algebra that creates lots of extra wasted calculations. “You hear me mention custom nodes…doesn’t […]

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Cult of Rig : Season 00 Day 06 – Theory and Applied vectors, IK pedals

Season 00 Day 6 – Theory and Applied vectors, IK pedals   “More on vectors while we actually show some application, and eventually make it to hooking up the pedals’ geo to the IK pedals control in the niche of time” “Day 6, crash course in vector math, sprinkle of matrix math, and finally, applying […]