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    • Oct 20, 2020
    • 1 min

    Changing Control Color with PyMEL | Tech Art Bites

    Ever tried changing control color through code in Maya? It's specially useful when writing an autorigger! You can change the color of the...
    Character Rigging | Yori | Part II
    • Sep 10, 2020
    • 1 min

    Character Rigging | Yori | Part II

    I'd like to thank my friend and Character Artist, Miki Bishop, for letting me use this character for this series. https://mikibishop.com/...
    Debugging in Maya with Stack Trace | Tech Art Bites
    • Sep 1, 2020
    • 1 min

    Debugging in Maya with Stack Trace | Tech Art Bites

    Did you know that having this option enabled in your script editor will make your life a lot easier? It might seem obvious to point this ...
    Photogrammetry At Home | with Miki Bishop and Robert Simpson
    • Aug 25, 2020
    • 2 min

    Photogrammetry At Home | with Miki Bishop and Robert Simpson

    After I released my FACS series, some people reached out to me on LinkedIn with questions (which is totally cool by the way). One person ...
    • Aug 18, 2020
    • 1 min

    Search your Maya scene with itemFilter() and lsThroughFilter() | Tech Art Bites

    itemFilter and lsThroughFilter are used together to look for specific things in your scene. As the name suggests, itemFilter() creates a ...
    • Aug 4, 2020
    • 1 min

    Passing mel scripts as python in Maya | Tech Art Bites

    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...
    • Jun 3, 2020
    • 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...
    AutoRigging: IK Pole Vector
    • May 12, 2020
    • 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'...
    Facing the FACS: Post Mortem
    • May 5, 2020
    • 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...
    Double Cloth Skinning
    • Jan 7, 2020
    • 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...
    • 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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