This morning, I was genuinely blown away when I opened my YouTube feed and stumbled across a video uploaded just yesterday. It’s a behind-the-scenes documentary, about 50 minutes long, showcasing how the

Jose is inserting a new heart in Makina's engine compartment; Jason prepares us for passage.

Good day everyone! Zak here from Cape Town, South Africa. Shortly before the new ship job came in, I did a lifting and rigging job with Phoenix Rigging and Tandem Cranes. @loadreaper was there as I asked

Outrageous prices for silver is coming. And this is based on our current inputs. Add in inflation, and it may be numbers we cannot ponder.

The smell of gunpowder, the thunder of gunshots, and clouds of terror started to scatter on 5th of September. The famous Karachi operation was started by security forces. Many members of banned outfits

How to make a tree fall with precision

Sometimes most of my work is NDA. Sometimes I wish I could share more of what I do - it is gratifying doing show and tell - but they keep telling me some don't like seeing how they make the sausages...

Bookends. This morning we went to the theatre to see Angry Birds 2 with our 5 for 4$ tickets via the school. Was fun to see it on the big screen and the boys had a BLAST. Ate way too much popcorn and they

Game play cheaters

Cheaters Exposed

Finished the retopolgy, the rig, the materials, and some characterization. Now.. it's just delivery to the client! I think this is one of my better rigs - and by golly would I love to animate him. Rig

Ok, the rig is finally done enough to push to animation - delivery to the client! I just need to rebake some things, fix some topology of the teeth here and there, finish the 3D synoptic GUI and... pack

Been working emotion Been making emotions to tune and test the rig. I bake these in because pose libraries and shapes are linear and don't store arcs and the other animation principles, so eventually each

Finally, after a long time - this little guy is finally done enough to do characterization tests. He will soon have 6 emotions and a little play animation to push the rig to the limits - then I fix things.

Digging up an old rigging project, happy to see it still in shape, nearly done. Might characterize and animate him soon enough! Sucks I can't use the widgets to pose the bones while weighting though...

KineFX gives us a far more flexible rigging and export pipeline than the object based rigging system. This system gives us a lot more control but this means that the initial setup is less intuitive than

A basic reverse foot setup in KineFX

A rigging update for the spine

Creating custom spine rotations with Houdini Kinefx

Getting your FK bones to match the IK is very important when animating a rig. Here I create a system to achieve this.