Friday, March 01, 2019

More Tools!

Been a while but here I am still plugging away, making some cool things! Currently working on an auto proxy skinning tool. It creates a proxy based on the joints, and then automatically skins it! I also created a range of motion tool to be able to reference in animation and test the rig.



Another thing I was working on was a tool that will automatically place assets along a curve. Ideally it will help with set dressing. Next step is making it work on a surface.


One of the bigger scripts I completed was one to add a simple rig to all assets selected. This one has made rigging simple things very efficient!


Tuesday, May 17, 2016

some scripts!

I've been scripting a lot lately. Little things that make my work flow smooth! The character auto rig is still a work in progress

Friday, February 26, 2016

New GUI


Reworking my auto rig script. It definitely feels a lot more organized now.

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

I have an IMDB page!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm7518100/

Woo! I feel accomplished !

WIP - Character Rig

Ive been slowly working at rigging a character for a friend of mine. She is coming along nicely if I do say so myself. The clothing weighs still needs to be adjusted, she still needs a face rig, hair rig and some corrective blends, then she should be good to go! Woo!

Thursday, July 23, 2015

More spine

Work got a little crazy, but I managed to throw in a few more spine controls. Still needs some fk options. 


Side note though, with what I am currently doing at work I learned some more efficient scripting techniques! I will definitely have to implement all the new things I was taught.

Friday, July 10, 2015

Spine start

Well, Ive got the auto part of the auto clav working. Apparently I just needed to stop looking at it for a day! There are still a few bugs to work out though. I decided to take a break from the arms and start the spine!


Wednesday, July 08, 2015

Grr auto clav!

I got the clavicle control all set up but the auto clavicle isnt behaving like I want it too. I can get it working in ik, but fk feels like giving me cycle errors. Guess Ill try something different!


Monday, July 06, 2015

Auto rig update

So at this point, the legs and arms have ik/fk switches, ribbon offsets, stretchy limbs and reverse stretch. I still need to add some clavicle controls to the arms, and I want to try and add in some elbow planting and ik fk matching!


Starting the arm auto rig


Friday, July 03, 2015

Reverse foot sample


Auto rig - reverse foot!

Decided to test what I've got working in my auto rig setup so far on a season 1 gadget character, the MADgician! I added a "foot lean" into my reverse foot and it was hard to tell how it was going to work out but I am pretty happy with it!


Thursday, July 02, 2015

Stretchy!

Just got the stretchy and reverse stretchy ik leg working! The ribbon offsets are all hooked up. Its getting there!


Friday, June 12, 2015

Been a while!

I think its about time I updated this thing. I've just been working away. Haven't updated my reel yet, but I have learned lots of fancy new things and lately have been doing a lot of scripting! Heres a few UI pictures of the scripts I have written! All my scripts are written in mel.

This first one isnt all mine. I had to rig quite a few 2d characters in maya and it took quite a lot of mangling our work scripts to get them to work properly. So in an attempt to have my coworkers able to also rig the 2d characters I put together this guy! The running of the arm and leg setups are property of work, but the rest is alll mine!

This one just adds either one, or two controls to anything with any shapenode in that list and sets up the constraints! It also has the option to add a geometry visibility switch and a size attribute to the control. Doing this manually isn't the most complicated, but might as well streamline it!

This one is exactly what it looks like! It takes two joints and sets up a ribbon in between. I need to tweak a few things, but other then that, it definitely comes in handy!

Here is my current project! I am making my own rigging setup script! Right now none of the check boxes work and it only does ik fk switching legs with a reverse foot, but eventually that drop down will include spine and arms and potentially a face setup!

Sunday, October 06, 2013