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4 days ago
2 min

Motion Capture at Home

It's possible! In my senior year, as I've mentioned a few times, I was desperate for a job and doing everything in my power to improve my...

Fernanda

Aug 4
1 min

Tech Art Bites: Passing mel scripts as python in Maya

Have you ever tried reverse-engineering a MEL command in Maya only to find the python equivalent doesn't exist? That happens to me someti...

Fernanda

Jun 3
2 min

Tech Art Resources + Unsolicited Life Update

[ I was going to post this yesterday but it was BlackoutTuesday, and it felt disrespectful to do so. In this blog we support BLM; we also...

Fernanda

May 12
2 min

AutoRigging: IK Pole Vector

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'...

Fernanda

May 5
2 min

Facing the FACS: Post Mortem

I want to start by saying thank you to the gentleman on LinkedIn who suggested this amazing title. I'm upset I didn't come up with it mys...

Fernanda

Apr 24
1 min

FACS#4: Making the Rig (Part II)

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

Fernanda

Apr 22
1 min

FACS #3: Making the Rig (Part I)

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...

Fernanda

Apr 14
1 min

FACS#2.5: WIP! + Quick script to make group-based controls

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 prog...

Fernanda

Apr 7
2 min

FACS #2: Making Blendshapes

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

Fernanda

Mar 31
1 min

FACS #1: Photogrammetry Data

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

Fernanda

Mar 27
1 min

Joint-Based Liquid Simulation Rig

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 Tec...

Fernanda

Jan 7
1 min

Double Cloth Skinning

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...

Fernanda

Nov 11, 2019
2 min

What is FACS rigging?

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

Fernanda

Nov 4, 2019
2 min

Making Control Curves with code

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...

Fernanda

Aug 24, 2019
3 min

10 Portfolio Tips for Tech Artists

Hey there tech artists! It may not seem like much, but I learned a ton in my first year in the industry. For instance, there's a lot of i...

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