sup folks. I'm working on a freelance project that involves lots of animation, and I'm making a mini skateboard rig for the character. This is my first time rigging anything in Maya and I keep stumbling on lots of things. The skateboard is basically simple geometry with the rotation of the wheels driven by an expression.…
SINSPIRE Synopsis Sinspire is a third-person, spine-chilling psychological horror RPG set in the decaying remnants of a grand Victorian clock tower. You play as Edith, a girl trapped in the tower's ground floor as chaos unfolds around you. With no escape and time running out, you must ascend to the tower's summit through…
depends on what you mean by "rigging" You should know how to build a skeleton and skin weighting. you don't have to know how to build a full featured animation control rig, but having basic knowledge of the standard types of constraints is very useful. If you just want to animate there are plenty of free and low cost rigs…
Hello Polycount! I am looking for some advice on facial rigging for games before I start a working on a rig for the BRINK heads I have been working on (Still W.I.P!) I am building these head with the same topology and am hoping to build a rig that can share the animation data between the heads.I am unsure about a few…
Lightspeed LA (Tencent) is looking for a Senior/Lead Technical Artist (rigging) who has a passion for building AAA quality characters to life. This is a flexible, highly creative role responsible for building an immersive game experience in a living, breathing world. Join top AAA studio veterans in building our new AAA…
I think it's pretty cool, it's a step above what most game riggers can do, it shows a wide range of skill that would probably open quite a few doors. The market is getting pretty crowded and there aren't that many rigging only positions available. A lot of the rigging jobs are animation and rigging, or technical art and…
Hi, I just recently finish up my rig for Spider Gwen. Anyone please tell me what you think. I am still improving this. I also need an animator to test the rig to see how useful some of rigging system are. PM me if you are interested in testing the rig. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRJOqj3xVcs
Rather than start a new thread, mind if I ask a quick question about mechanical rigging in here? Seems like all of the rigging tutorials I ever see are character rigging... So I'm trying to rig up some tank tracks. I watched a tutorial on a method to do it, using a splineIK solver. However, the track is twisted around the…
I have a pretty simple easel that is a main focus of an upcoming animation. I need to rig it more like a character then a simple props that i'm use to. Requirements of the rig.Needs to pivot up on each of the 3 legsCan be rotated around on whatever leg its on, and fall over pivoting from the front 2 legsBack leg needs to…
Hi there, thought I'd post this here too - more of a rigging and animation related post - for quite a while I've wanted to put together some sort of scripting and rigging reel - finally found time. Reel consists mostly of character related scripts + rigs and a little bit of vehicles too (I'm also working on a sculpting and…