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Used to do Maya rigs, now I post random stuff / Header img by @helldognico

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@rigstation

rigstation

11 months

I like to put an end to things properly and not drag them indefinitely. So I think this is it folks, time to shut down this project since I haven't been working on new stuff nor have the will, motivation or energy to do so. Thank you for animating my rigs, cya around!

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rigstation

4 years

(🔊Sound on) This is the first anim done with the rig by Sagar Arun, please follow him on Instagram for more great animation :) He was the one who invited me to this project and approved the rig. A round of applause please

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11 months

Yooo I worked on this doing face rigs! :3

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A little bit anti, a little bit hero. Nimona premieres June 30

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4 years

(Sound on 🔊🎛️ for nostalgia!) Second animation done with the rig! 😍 Mia Pray - Modeling, Texturing me - Rigging Sagar Arun - Water &Fire anim Gregory Verreault - Earth and Air anim Danny Barnhart- FX Brett Taggart- Cloth Simulation/Tech Anim Jacob Mann - Lighting, Compositing

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1 year

Showcasing a rig I worked on for @FXRodeo last year. I am rooting very hard for this short to be included in the shortlist for Best Animated Short Film at the Oscars, that would be nice :) Demo in highres: Short film sneak peek:

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1 year

#controlrig study, next-up is procedural locomotion :3

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2 years

Following this month's AnimChallenge announcement, Daffy's rig is now available for download: Lightweight as usual, compatible with Maya 2018 and newer. Enjoy!! #maya #rigtip #animation #AnimChallenge

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rigstation

1 month

Dude WHY game rigs never have clavicle joints?! It's such an easy thing to add, you can even apply an autoclav setup pass or Control Rig on top of mocap. This pisses me off more than it should

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. @larianstudios is working on two new projects, which should be its "best work ever." "Yes, it’s hype but it’s hype because it really looks and feels good": #BaldursGate3 #games #gamenews #videogames

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3 years

Joints never betray me 🥲 #jointGang (new rig coming soon, from the same creators of Aang)

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1 year

Attempt to rig liquid with #controlrig :3

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1 year

My Charmander rig, so cute 😚

@ChallengeAnim

AnimChallenge

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Xiong Sen shows us the true nature of Pokemon battles in this shot! December's "Dance Battle" is ON! Who has the best moves, let's check out the highlights of the month together! #agorastudio #animchallenge #animation #animator #cgi #vfx #highlights #2danimation #dancebattle

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2 years

New free rig coming soon! Collab with @SonicpoX (anim) and @MayaraScudeler (model)

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Jordan (PoX)

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❤️ she already feels found ❤️ #MultiVersus

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3 months

@SicklyWiz @bclark_cgchar Ok so first you make the geometry be deformed by a lattice (red). Make it work nicely with the straight arm in only one axis. Then you make another lattice (green) be the driver of the red one and copy the weights from the arm so it will bend and follow the arms exactly.

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3 years

Hey everyone, here's a new character I've been cooking together with the same team who created the Avatar rig, Sagar and Mia. This one is not part of Rigstation so it's not free. But if you enjoyed animating Aang, please give this original char a try :)

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1 year

Today's progress, around 6 hours of tweaking and experimenting new techniques. This is sooo fun! I love Control Rig <3 #controlrig #UE5

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2 years

Awesome animation of my Daffy rig by @DahvidCA !

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2 months

Progress on the smoothing algorithm. It's actually not bad in speed! ~5k verts, 124 influences. I'm using MFnSkinCluster.setWeights and implemented mottosso/apiundo for undo/redo, it's amazing! Next up: dealing with locked influences and max influence limits

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3 years

#stickylips feature on the rig I did for Osa (Rainbow6 Crystal Guard Cinematic Reveal)

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3 years

More Osa's facial rig goodness ✨ Props to @MayaraScudeler who did most of the hard work and modeled the majority of the blendshape targets. I basically just pointed my fat finger and said "fix this, fix that" 👀 🤞twitter don't butcher the video plis #maya #rigging #FACS -ish

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rigstation

3 years

Throwback time! Once I was invited to help in a rigging gig where the character was gliding in the air, instead of simulating cloth I proposed using layered sine/wave deformers animated procedurally :3 Here's the final video: #rigtip #deformers

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@rigstation

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1 year

I got the whole free weekend to work on this :3 I'll post more updates as I progress!

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4 years

Important: please don't pay anything for the Aang rig, I'm refunding anyone who does. This a *free* fan-made character asset. Give it back by sharing the animation, rig and crediting everyone involved. Teach someone to animate. Support your local charities <3

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rigstation

3 years

Fiz um fanart 3D do personagem José do "Rei de Lata", mangá nacional do Jeff @PandaDeCapa O mangá é sensacional e a versão impressa está em pré-venda a um preço super acessível, vamos apoiar autores nacionais galereee! #compreReiDeLata #ReiDeLataCollab

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@PandaDeCapa

JEFF

3 years

Rei de lata está em pré-venda, e você já pode garantir o seu exemplar pela Amazon ou pela loja virtual da NewPOP! Amazon: NewPOP:

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1 year

Hey folks, SU's Spinel rig is published on my Gumroad page! Just make sure to enable textures in the viewport to see the face and scythe textures. Credits and special thanks: @SonicpoX @MayaraScudeler Happy holidays!!🎄 #rig #rigtip #maya #animation

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rigstation

1 year

Found the first Maya rig I ever did😊 it's from 2007. Not my first rig ever though, I learned rigging in Softimage before this.

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3 months

Protip: you are allowed to wiggle ctrls in a demo if your rig is fine like this 😎

@TemaRoots

Artem Dubina

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Sally. Rig in maya for @house_lupin #animation #character #3danimation #rigging #maya #animationschool #3d #design

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1 year

Ok I'm pretty happy with this! 😊 They dance, blink, overlap, and predict steps to avoid dragging behind. Pretty much all done inside Control Rig, except for collision physics. Next weekend I'll look into Behavior Tree to try and get them walking around. #controlrig #ue5

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1 year

- Mom I wanna buy Node Editor - No, we have Node Editor at home The Node editor at home:

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1 year

Been playing a little with Maya's Node Editor today! Trying to add UE-style comment nodes.

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3 years

I'm quite pleased with the current results :3 trying to get as far as I can using only native deformers

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1 year

You asked for it... don't complain later 😂 Lots of things to fix and add and we'll still be working on it, but it's useable! I've been using it for the past 3 days and honestly it's been quite an improvement to my workflow. (I want to fix the bookmarks)

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rigstation

1 year

Thinking in creating a Discord server for beginners that are actively studying Rigging in Maya to have a safe space to ask and get help (visible to everyone in the server). Referral-only so it doesn't get too crowded and intimidating and to stimulate interaction. Would that work?

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3 years

Who's that Pokémon??

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1 year

Igris rig is done but I'm thinking in animating procedurally inside UE with Control Rig 👀 #SoloLeveling

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3 years

Attempting to rig fire, wish me luck 🤞

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3 years

ATLA fans rejoice, I just came across this rig by @Mattathiaslee and it looks awesomeeee 🤩

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This is a FREE rig. Gumroad doesn't allow a product to be 100% free, please do not pay anything for this. If you wish to support my work, you can always just simply follow me here or on my socials ...

mattathias.gumroad.com

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1 year

I'm very late to the party but this is so fun!!

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4 years

#PortfolioDay v2 My name is Rijah Kazuo and work as a 3d Rigger/TD 💪 So the previous video didn't really covered my rigging portfolio so here's a mashup of some gigs I helped with in the last 4 years. Thanks for watching! Also, visit for free rigs!

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3 years

Watch out for food thieves!! 😼 Cute animation by Pedro Arbona, reposted with permission. My Pet rig is available for free:

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4 years

#PortfolioDay I'm Rijah and I'm a rigger. I do a lot of contract work but somehow it felt weird showcasing rigs with other people's modeling and animation. So I compiled a quick video of what I managed to model, rig and animate by myself so far :) not much but it's honest work.

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18 years doing rigs and I feel like I don't have anything to show for it and I feel so frustrated

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1 year

Spent the last few days doing this tutorial and it's so satisfying to watch the character moving around hehe next I'll try to use my own character with cloth and dynamics and equip a sword instead

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2 months

2am into the weekend I should be sleeping but I am coding my own smoothing algorithm 🥹 very basic for now (only smooths between 2 influences) and in pure python while I figure out the math

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4 years

Godzilla suit is happening 😎

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Ziva for feature animation: Stylized simulation and machine learning-ready workflows | Unity Blog

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3 months

I've been studying animation and basic ABP state machines and the feet sliding was really bothering me so I quickly prototyped a Control Rig that keeps the feet planted where you stepped and it looks so sassy lol feat. Dento - a new rig I've been cooking to study body mechanics

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rigstation

4 years

Just sharing a quick snippet of a spider web rig I did for the latest Katy Perry MV. I'm happy with how smooth it works but it's barely noticeable in the final animation :'( Either way it's a good challenge for rigging students to try and reproduce.

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rigstation

3 years

I rigged and animated this lovely little robot 🥺 for my friend Gugu @GustavoGroppo2 Check out his work, he's amaziiiing <3

@GustavoGroppo2

Gustavo Groppo

@GustavoGroppo2

3 years

Latest 3d artwork. Based and inspired by the work of Matt Dixon, The Aviator. Please check the artistation post for more images and more resolution - Full textured in @Substance3D

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4 years

A'ight I'm calling this animation exercise done... steps are hard! 😳 Special thanks to @Thinh_Anim , I learned a bunch with your feedback Now on to rig his dino suit and do another anim test before releasing the character 💪

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11 months

The people have spoken Animation is EZY GG n00b

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3 years

Today marks 3 months that I'm working at a new studio. I just wanted to say they still haven't fired me yet, I'm so happy 🥲

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2 months

Made some progress on my skinning tool this weekend! Swapping to component mode and selecting vertices visually show their average weight for each influence and we can edit by middle-mouse dragging in the UI. Next up: optimize speed when editing large quantities of verts.

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11 months

Everytime you see teeth and tongue, or zipper lips animated... remember me 🥹 jk I worked on a bunch of other modules too

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2 months

How the hell did I do this, I don't remember and I need it 🥲

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4 years

Yaaayyyy just spent 2 hours crashing Maya just to get this synced slider working So proud ☺️ #pySide #mayaUI #python

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2 months

If Nimona wins an Oscar can I put on my LinkedIn that I'm a award winner rigger for having worked in the movie and like charge people for visiting my profile 👀

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3 years

Oooh I heard you guys like #blendshapes ? Here's a couple shape targets I sculpted for American Gods' characters (S01E05) back in 2016. Wish I could get more work with high-density topology like this, it's very fun and I've definitely learned a bit since then :)

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3 years

Did anyone say #smearFrames ? Here's a fun one I animated last year. BTW this rig is free (Maya only) #animation #3Danimation #maya

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1 year

Bookmarks are stable. Added "Search Comments" function (per tab)

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3 years

Did you know you can substitute a side suffix or anything else one or multiple "?" It only substitutes the index in question unlike the * that returns everything ( "?_eyelid_ctrl" ) # Result: ['L_eyelid_ctrl', 'R_eyelid_ctrl'] # #maya #rigTip #python

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rigstation

1 year

I'm 36, I've been rigging for a living since I was 20 and I am tired. When I start feeling confident about something I'm usually slapped in the face by the realization I actually have to learn much more (and it never ends) 🥲 Can't deny I enjoy the satisfaction of growing though.

@KyleTsetso

Kyle Tsetso

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im 40 now, a senior animator with experience at multiple studios specializing in tv animation, ive taught animation at colleges, and i dont know what the fuck im doing art rules because you never master everything, youre always growing, and other people's progress helps you

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1 year

Here's how you can load and save a PNG image to a .ma file because reasons

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3 years

Today I did a modulus operation using native Maya nodes (multiplyDivide, addDoubleLinear, multDoubleLinear, unitConversion) It's silly but it was a fun challenge, took me a couple hours and some Googling to figure it out.

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11 months

How much should a feature film quality, custom tailored to your liking, rigged character cost? Like 6 months of work with unlimited reviews, modeling, rig, blendshapes, textures and picker included?

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1 year

Cross product visualization using Control Rig, because it's fun :3

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4 years

Wazzaaaaap people I'm no animator but I'm having a blast testing our upcoming Free rig Mr. NiceGuy Do you think this would be a fun character to animate? @MayaraScudeler did modeling/shading @yurilementy helped me with a lot of feedback on the rig and my animation

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2 months

Here is the smoothing algorithm so far weights_dict has all vertices weights as value and the key is the influence ID used internally by the skinCluster new_weight per vertex can be part of the old_weight, it depends on the smooth_opacity value. So far I've been using 1.0

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3 years

So I came across something called MNPRX from @artineering I don't know much about shaders/rendering but the out-of-the-box watercolor presets looks so cool on the viewport and it's so fast, I'm excited to fiddle more with it!

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4 years

Okay I promise this is the last one... but it's so funny to look the little penguim modeling himself 😂 now I understand what the 3d avatar hype is all about hahaha

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@SicklyWiz @bclark_cgchar Alright I added a sliding sleeve to my char, with a small corrective when sliding up to buldge the fabric a little bit. I actually ended up using 2 lattices for this to work, not sure if it's really needed or if I'm just rusty

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4 years

[FREE RIG] NiceGuy is now available for download! Download link: It's pretty cartoony so you should be able to do exaggerated animated studies, have fun! Props to @MayaraScudeler for modeling, rendering and inviting me to rig this character :)

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3 years

AsH i'M nOt FeElinG sO GooD

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I am happy again :3 Actually living my best life regardless of the professional accomplishments

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My attempt on rigging fire from a couple years ago

@AuroraPLZ

Aurora

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fire animation

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rigstation

4 years

I uploaded a breakdown reel of some of the rigs we did for KP's Smile MV, check it out please: The rigs are pretty simple but we did it with love and I hope it shows <3 (chicken loop animated by the amazing Little Zoo Studio)

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4 years

Yaaayyyy just spent 2 hours crashing Maya just to get this synced slider working So proud ☺️ #pySide #mayaUI #python

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1 year

Just sorting out the files and recording some demos and I'll post this rig soon, hopefully still this week!

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4 years

Just leaving this here in case anyone is ripping their hairs off trying to get tooltips to show in a PySide windows for HOURS and it doesn't work, this should help 😭 (yes it was Off for me) #pyside #maya

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4 years

Thank you for the nice review @jeandenishaas <3 I'm adding the head squash and fixing chin skin for the official release.

@jeandenishaas

Jean-Denis Haas

4 years

Animation Buffet: Aang (Avatar The Last Airbender) - Rig Review #animation #rigs #AvatarTheLastAirbender

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1 year

#AntiPortfolioDay circe 2006 I think I was trying to model Charmander

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2 years

New free rig coming soon!

@SonicpoX

Jordan (PoX)

2 years

Just letting you guys know, Spinels Multiversus concept IS coming! We've been hard at work on her model and rig, as well as crafting her moveset as close to the Multiversus Style as possible! #MultiVersus Model and rig made by: @rijahkaz @MayaraScudeler

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2 years

💪Rig Goals for 2022 🥲 (in order: from doable to impossible) ✨upgrade my autorig to python 3.0 ✨pick up speed and release more free rigs ✨get a job at a game studio to learn ✨start streaming ✨teach/mentor someone desperate enough ✨try to work less

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Rita Rigs

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💪Art [Rig] Goals for 2022 😤 ✨ Make it in the industry 😎 ✨ Get more efficient in Python/Pymel🤓 ✨ Finish my auto rigging tool🤓🤓 ✨ Successfully rig a transformer (my dream challenge at this point lol)🤓😎🤓😎 Tagging @rijahkaz @rigstation @retsynNL @AnaCarolina_Art

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TIL there is a manga that teaches Rigging called "The Road of Maya" - look it up on Amazon Unfortunately I don't know how to read japanese ;_; but this is super cool!! tip by Perry Leijten

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1 year

Introducing... Node Editor wallpapers 🌸 No not really

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1 year

@holographicpink Everyone here is lying. It is blood sacrifice.

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4 years

Carolina Delgado did a really cool and psychodelic loop with my Midi rig, I'm in love <3 Make sure to follow this awesomeness of a person here

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rigstation

3 years

But but.... world up is usually Y (Maya, Unity) or Z (Max, Unreal), not X???

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Scott Manley

3 years

I feel like I need to apologise to Astra for this.... but it was too good a joke to ignore.

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3 years

At the beginning of my professional journey I used to apply yearly to studios, it was my dream to relocate and move countries. In 2009 I got my first interview ever with an international studio that could do that for me. It was Naughty Dog and I didn't pass their test.

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Fixed the eyeballs to be calculated in worldspace (respecting the capsule dynamics) :3

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1 year

Today's progress on the crabs, brainstorming with @RBoualayan #controlrig #ue5

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1 year

I've been modeling Igris from #SoloLeveling on my free time. It's not optimized for games (sooo hard!) but after I model the cape I want to rig and put it in UE5 to practice cloth, dynamics, locomotion, ABP and Control Rig! I'll try to post progress, should be fun!

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4 years

@TaSiang asked me about some technical specs on the Aang rig so I'm sharing here in a really quick thread. Take everything with a grain of salt because I'm not an educator.

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3 years

Hahaha so cute 🥰

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Got a cool mic on my trip that finally removes noise properly so I'm thinking in recording a skinning workshop. Very basic 101 content. :3

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