In this week's Tech Art Tuesday I want to share my own approach to creating pole vectors for an IK joint chain. Pole vector controls can't be placed randomly...

Happy Friday! Unfortunately my internet did not allow the video to be processed completely yesterday (it was only done this morning...), but here it is! Part...

You know what day it is? I learned a lot from my previous tutorial! For instance, I should be better prepared before recording so editing doesn't take too lo...

I underestimated how long this project would take to record, so it'll be postponed to next week. In the meantime, enjoy some work in progress! I made some pl...

FACS Part......2!!!!!! Last week we imported all of our blendshapes into a maya scene. We have all the expressions we need, including a "neutral" expression ...

Photogrammetry is the practice of scanning real life assets to create a true-to-life replica in 3D. In FACS, photogrammetry is used to scan the head of actor...

After some feedback, I had the idea of doing follow up posts to Tech Art Tuesdays that feature new rig experiments. I'll call it uhhh Tech Art Thursday?? Thi...

It's Tech Art Tuesday!! Today I want to show a trick one of my teammates at AGS taught me for skinning double sided cloth. 1) First we're going to create our...

Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is a way to anatomically measure and break down facial expressions. With this theory, emotions can be “built” by combining...

Intro This will be the first in (what I hope to be) a recurring series of posts on python tutorials for rigging. That being said, this is just my own persona...