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Welcome
to my character rigs gallery.
-All rigs were created using Maya 4.0/4.5. Some
of the rigs were created for personal use; others were created for other
student projects, a game that two others and I are working on in vrml,
and a tutorial that I have produced for two workshops that I taught at
ACCAD. Most of my rigs were created using an indirect binding method using
a series of lats surrounding polygonal geometry. Most of the rigs below
use a series of blend shapes for facial animation, although the frog uses
a system of bones with the face to control facial movements. All rigs
are setup to be animated using a system of sliders and spline handles,
as well as some built in dynamics. All models were created by me unless
otherwise stated.
-Click
to view Example animation work flow. (26.4megs avi).
this shows a screenie of me working some of the controls of the
frog rig.
-Click
to view screen shot of rig in Maya.
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| 1.Dino
Leg, Fake muscle rig. |
-Details
can be found in my tutorial. Example
movie.
-The model was produced for a production project by Ryan English
and Mike Altman |
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| 2.The
Frog. |
-Fake muscle structure
in the face using bones/complete setup. Example
movie. |
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| 3.Sweat Licker. |
-Created for personal
animation, built in soft body dynamics/complete setup.
Example
movie.Below is an example of lattice setup. |
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| 4.Dung Beetle
Project. |
-The next four characters
were created for a small animated short. Buff beetle has
simple muscle control using sculpt deformers. Example
movie. |
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-The fly below has
the ability to switch from ik to dynamics on the nose and legs.
Example
movie. |
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| 5.The
Witch |
-This witch was
created for a theater students small animated short based on the story of
McBeth. I used this rig to test out a ik/dynamic switch for the cloth simulation,
it was somewhat successfull, needs a lot of work yet however.
Example
movie. This movie also includes the next rig as
well. |
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| 6.The Bearded
Lady |
-This rig was produced
for a design students animation. I used a switch setup for the dress which
allowed it to be driven by handles, or the knees and feet, or by dynamics,
or by a combination of them all. View the example movie above.
-Both of the models below where designed and modeled by Mike
Altman |
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-She also needed a
beard that was somewhat complex so I built it separately. |
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| 7.Umbilical |
-This character was
designed and modeled by Jun Oh. It was produced
for a group production project invovling five to six people. I was the main
character TD. I had to make this character so that we could reference him
over and over into a scene and easily attach its cord to the character in
front of him. I also built in the ability to dynamicaly push down a soft
body surface whenever he steped down below it.
Example
movie. |
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| 8.Bike |
-This rig was created
for a personal animation. A character had to be able to sit on the bike
easily and it had to be animated only by the one pedal. This allowed me
to sit the character on the bike and parent the feet to the pedals, and
by only keyframing the right pedal, have a quick animation. I set this up
using expressions and got the rubber bands to actually rotate using a wrap
deformer.
Example
movie. |
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| 9.Ginny |
-Created for a personal
project |
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