Category Archives: Work In Progress

Rigging Ian with the Poker Rig

In my previous post I introduced the” Drop-In” rigging concept for Animation Master.

In the video that I included in that post I demonstrated installing the “Poker Rig” into a simplified robot model that I use for testing rigs.  The model there is probably not a typical model so I wanted to show the rig being installed into a model that is more typical as far as its layout is concerned.

For the video in this post, I demonstrate rigging a model that is probably modeled more like most models that an artist may be rigging. Continue reading Rigging Ian with the Poker Rig

“Drop-In” Rigging method for Animation Master

I was recently invited by Steve Shelton (“Shelton” at the Animation Master forums) to participate in a project that he, along with Chris Dailey (“mouseman” at the Animation Master forums), has been working on.  It involves a coffee shop and a few mishaps 🙂 .  The project is a precursor to a larger one that Steve has in mind and he is using this project as a learning experience before he moves on to the larger one.

They told me that they could use a bit of help with some of the rigging. Continue reading “Drop-In” Rigging method for Animation Master

Clark (work in progress)

A few weeks ago I was doing a search on the internet for inspirational material  for a personal project that I am working on and I was diverted by something unrelated when I came across something called a character turn/ model sheet for Superman.

This particular character turn is located at a website called Draw Angry and it the site of an artist and director named Sam Liu (more information about him here as well).

Sam wrote in another post on his site that these model sheets were created for the Superman/Batman: Apocalypse video and that they were completed with the assistance of Jeff Johnson (more info here about Jeff Johnson as well).

I decided after looking at at the Superman sheet that I would would save a copy of it so that I could create a model of it in Animation Master, one of my computer and animations programs.

Front view of model with the superman model sheet in place.

These images of Superman line up very well and have been a great help in modeling the character so far. Continue reading Clark (work in progress)