CamRIG is now available for Maya

CamRIG is a set of tools for 3D artists. CamRIG comes in 3 different camera rigs: a simple tripod with bank control, a crane rig and an inversed target camera rig. I first made them for 3ds Max, and you can now use them in Maya! They are designed to work the exact same way … Read more

AM Class 5 Week 6 – Re-Blocking

Here’s very draft preview of the animation I’m working on. It’s a two character dialog. I picked the audio from the movie “Jobs“. You’ll find some sketches too.  

AM Class 4 Week 12 – Review

This term was going so fast, I didn’t had any time to post on my blog! As the polishing of the previous shot isn’t that good enough to be shown here, here’s the animation breakdown of our first full lip sync animation. This last animation isn’t completely finished (but you know, animation never gets finished). So … Read more

AM Class 2 Week 9 – Blocking Plus

Hi all, It’s been a while since my last post, didn’t got the time to wrote any line for a couple of weeks. I’ve got some little animations to show so here we go: First lets start with the polishing stage of the previous animation: And here’s the new one, blocking stage:

AM Class 2 Week 1 – Psychology of Body mechanics

Hey all! After a two weeks break, AM starts back again and I’m in class 2. For this week, we had to choose in a list of suggestions an animation that will keep us busy for 4 weeks and we had to do a video reference and the planning, here’s the planning:

AM Class 1 Week 12 Final Review

This is the end of first class at Animation Mentor, time is going really fast. For this week, we just had to review all our work done this class, polishing some stuff, compiling everything in a single movie. I tweaked some shot and rendered everything so you get a nice clean review of the work … Read more

AM Class 1 Week 11 Assignment

We’re now close to the end of the first class, one week left! This week was quite harder than the others. We had to finish the “Ballie walking with personality” animation. I wanted to make it feel a bit heavy, walking and  whistling in the street. For this week we also had to pose Stu … Read more

AM Class 1 Week 10 Assignment

A lot of work for this week. We had to block Ballie walking with personality, we also had to adjust the vanilla walk for the revision and finally we had to pose stu communicating an exhausted feel.    

CamRIG – rigs to animate your 3D cameras

Hi all! I’ve got something great to share with you.  I hope you’ll be pleased. It’s something about cameras. I see too many cool animations killed by a crappy camera animation. I also know that animating a camera in a 3d package is something really hard, … and boring too! What can I do for this? … Read more