UVU Rigging: 2012

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Emily's Final

Sorry I don't know what happened. Frustration with some breaking in the rig.

Zach C final

http://youtu.be/0MhzAqyFwbk

It's possible to view in HD so you can really soak in those bad deformations.

Fear my enormous locators.

Kevin Fernsten Final

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFZdJr_vDgY&feature=youtu.be

Ran in to some trouble on the final stretch, but had some fun fixing and modifying it!! Rigging might be fun after all....maybe....after you learn how to do it. Had a great semester everyone, see ya soon!! And thanks for all the help, Adam!!

David McCully Rig Final

After several frustrating attempts to record my stinking screen... This is what I've come up with. It shows the rig's functionality well enough, although the mouse/cursor is confusing since it is not synchronized with the video on screen.

Final Rigging Demo Reel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOPYRTPbXZA

Ben Hale Final

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP9AE3xyx5U

I can't embed my video, blogger can't seem to find my video on youtube so I'll link it.

So this class has been one of the hardest I've ever taken, and I not at all satisfied with my final. This summer I'll be subscribing to 3dMotive and going through their bipedal rigging program, I want to see this through and understand this stuff better.

Adam Connell
packageman final rig

Thanks again Adam for all your help your class was great. You can watch it on youtube also in 720p but on full screen if you want to see more detail.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Ericson Final

http://youtu.be/zukk3Lh6fFM

Monday, April 23, 2012

I am posting some videos on how to screen capture video of your stuff. It was made for my Essentials class but will work for you guys as well. They will be listed on our tutorials page at the bottom.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Late Midterm Submission

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Updated skin

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Midterm

Sorry it was so delayed.

Midterm Progress

Dragonfly rig for "Dart"

Midterm

This was a lot of fun to make, enjoy.

Thomas Giles anti-demo reel

Rigging Demo Midterm

Rigging midterm

I had so many issues with my mesh and remodeling that I've fallen behind on skinning, though I'm glad I have something at least.

midterm video

Heather's Rigging Midterm

Rig Demo!!

Rig inprogress...

Emily's Rig

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqhjn8LluI0

Hale skinning midterm

remodeled the topology over again a few times, emphasis on the shoulders, torso, and pelvis

Monday, March 5, 2012

Ericson Midterm

it's not finished, but this is what I have so far.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Skinning test with hand

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Mousebot playblast

HELP

So i wanted to go back and make some changes to my weights that i wasn't happy with and this is what all my weights look like. When i move the joints about half of them move the way they used to but as soon as i try to make any sort of changes to them everything gets messed up. Any idea what i did and please don't say that its maya 2012.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Generic model for anyone to use

I'll be honest, the one thing that has been preventing me from enjoying this class has been my bird character model. I'm just not interested in rigging him at all.

Here's a character that any classmate is free to use if they happen to feel the same way. I threw this together last night from a few bodyparts I've modeled over the last few months. It's not perfect, but I think it has decent topology, at least for our purposes.

I have not given the character a skeleton, nor have I done any rigging. That's your job.

right click > save as

UPDATED http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5301613/models/pilot_update_01-24-2012_class.zip

Please do not use this model outside of class. Talk to me if you have any questions.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Rig Update

I tried to fix my thumb. I think it works better now.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

underside of thumb rotation

Rig update.

robot hand

thumb fold

Ericson Rig

I created the reverse foot.

Bending Thumb Issues. I need to redo this to make it bend naturally.

Thomas Giles - partial rig

I only did as much as the tutorials covered. If we were supposed to do the head, legs, and feet, then my bad.

Monday, January 16, 2012

Joint Placement and Orientation

Here is a still shot of my thumb orientation. It is following the mesh and lands a little high from where a real thumb hits.

Here is the rig set up with a root nod at the pelvis and the clavicles at the shoulders, also with a head, hat, jaw and chin joints.

Joint Placement and Orientation

Here is the video of my thumb orientation and the joint placement that I have so far. Should we have joints placed in our feet for toes? Also I am not sure how to place all of the facial joints, so I have not done that yet.