Demo Reel up!

[AAAron]

Now this is awsome! Great riggs!! Super inspiering!!!:bounce:

[My Fault]

Front page worthy!!!

This is amazing work. I've said it before, but it bears repeating, I really wish we could get a rigging tutorial (or 12 LOL) out of you. Amazing, amazing, amazing.

So on the cat character, is that flexmotion controlling the arms and spine? Any chance you could release one of these rigs, minus the geo of course, so we could study it?

[Parsec3d]

the cat rig is awesome the bird rig is awesome Man .. this should be on front page
and you should be selling tutorials , I Would pay....

[Wegg]

Those riggs were a joy to use Marek. You really know how to make Messiah sing. I had all but blotted that project out of my mind. . . I need to dig those models out and put em in my reel damn it. I didn't do so bad on those textures now that I see some of them in motion.

Good job. Front Page.

[Grgeon]

That's one sweet reel you got there man! Wow, just wow.

Makes me want to become a rigger!

God Bless,
George

[Parsec3d]

You c .., front page in no time :)

[Dagibit]

Oh my god, that was spectacular!:drool:

[ecco]

Amazing work- it inspires me to want to try and do character stuff too!
Very well done :)

edit: I forgot to mention I like the music with this too- it suits it well. I first really noticed it when you were swinging the cat character's hips about- moves to the music for a bit there I'm sure :)

[HellBoy]

absolutly suberb, what a crazy bones you got there, maan its awesome, just watching it for the fouth time

:thumbsup:

[chlywly]

Wow now thats what I call rigging :) Very nice

[Robert Diaz]

I second what everyone has been saying. Absolutely great work. The procedural stuff is truely impresive. Great job!

-Robert

[ivanisavich]

Hollyyyy CRAP!

You're a freakin master!

5 stars without a second thought.

[SePu]

Awesome demoreel .... very inspiring ....
5 starts ...

[Razr]

LOL amazing! Pretty soon you won't need animators anymore - everything is already taken care of! Fabulous material, definately stuff you can only (easily) do in Messiah...

[eek]

good work - gave me lots of ideas! Gotta love the axis controls in messiah - looks a hell of a lot similair to some pixar style controls. As with the fish - lovely, procedural animation - its that based of sin multipliers on rotations? or are you doing offset stuff.

Ive seen a fish setup like this before, (but can really say ;)) - ill have to do some more procedural animation type things.

Anyway cool!

eek

[Cerenkovman]

For me to get up off my butt and reply is say'n somthin'! May the force be with us all enough to some day live up to that!

[kevinw]

Freakin sweet!
I'd type more but I gotta go change my underwear!!:eek:

[fwtep]

Awesome work Marek!

Fred

[thom905]

I don’t usually post anything, but your demo reel is just amazing. One of the best TD reel I have seen

[Wireframes]

Just one word : WAOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU !

Great job :thumbsup:

Phil

[Leebre]

Beautiful rigging. What is the significance of using the the wireframe primitives on some of the rigs?

[Wegg]

Probably after I complained so much about all the little armatures being hard to see when there was so much going on in the scene. :-)

[andy_maxman]

stupendous! great standards...

wow! watching your reel....i had a whole bunch of wishes creeping in my head....

:thumbsup:
-andy

[UNIT 11]

Very Nice Work!

[Labuzz]

Nice work Marek:thumbsup:

[AndyH]

WOW! Thats absoloutley incredible!

There are so many superb thing on this reel:
fat guys chin not clipping his collar
feathers on the bird retracting
realtime dynamic bones on the fish
cats pelvis and tail
cartoony guys stretchy and bendy arms

You must be an animators best friend with all those super efficient, automated rigs!

5 star job for sure. I hate rigging and struggle with the most basic of setups, so i can really appreciate the work gone into this.

Did you make the models as well? Theyre great - especially the cat guy.

Thanks for plugging this, CGtalk folk! I woulda missed it otherwise!

[My Fault]

Probably after I complained so much about all the little armatures being hard to see when there was so much going on in the scene. :-)

So Billy can you give us some more insight on how good Marek's rigs were to work with?

[Wegg]

It sure was an eye opener. Especially the fish. I had never seen anything like it. I remember after we knew we were animating fish . . . doing some tests with motion clips to try and get the swimming motion down. . . and being told "you won't need to worry about that much." I was like. . . Ok. . . Then we got the riggs and it was. . . Wow. I had no idea how it all worked but it was amazing. I didn't like the Armatures though. That bugged me.

Then with the Tale City project the armatures were gone but. . . ooooh boy it got cool. Options for everything. Again. . . very mind blowing and if the producers and directors weren't so "special" I probably would have been able to use them more. But. . . I didn't.

I'm only just now, like a year later leaning how he did some of the things in there.

It makes me a little sad to see the XSI stuff in the reel. . . but I understand. You have to go where the work is.

[phenobarbidoll]

:thumbsup:Very impressive! Very inspiring!
That's really REALLY REALLY great work !!

It's the kind of rigg, that any animator wanna animate with.
Great sense of details in the rigg, with all the controllers for instance, or "second motion" ect..., and it's look like so "animator friendly".

Again, great rell !:thumbsup:

[rustbucket]

Incredible work! Not only do your rigs incorporate a lot of nice control over the characters, but they seem to be easy to use as well. The offsets on the fish and bird are utterly astounding!!!

*****

[samartin]

Mind blowing stuff indeed, would wish you good luck but I know you're not really gonna need it so to speak...

[sforsyth]

Very, very impressive.

P.s During the whale animation, you have a typo ("procedural" is spelled incorrectly)

[Suricate]

Great stuff! :buttrock: I especially like the cat and the bird rig, very impressive!

[sphere]

That's exceptional work you've done there! Congratulations on a fantastic reel. :thumbsup:

Would you come and be my rigger? :D

[metamesh]

very nice reel man, i enjoyed a lot watching it, one of the bests TD reels for me...The riggings look very profesional and even if they are very complex, they seem very easy to animate, that is really important! congrats for a well done job!

[andy_maxman]

You must be an animators best friend with all those super efficient, automated rigs!

quoted for total agreement. its gonna be a treat to animate such beautifully rigged characters.


Thanks for plugging this, CGtalk folk! I woulda missed it otherwise!

just about it too, mate....

[rafaelrubio]

:eek: incredible the control of movements you have with your characters! reel is amazing! perfect work friend! Frontpage of CGTalk! Congratulations! 5 stars from me!

[3dRaven]

Wow those rigs are awsome. They look like a ton of fun to animate :D

***** from me

[AAAron]

Make a tutorial DVD and I bet every single Messiah user would buy 10 copies!!! Those procedural animations are so f**kin cool!!!

[loocas]

Wicked stuff maks!!! :buttrock:

I loved all I saw! :thumbsup:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/images/rating/rating_5.gif from me without a doubt! :applause:

[maks]

WOW WOW WOW! Thanks everyone for all that overwhelming positive response! Front page and five stars - man, I didn't expect that much! :bounce:



@ My Fault and Parsec3d :

Like I already said some time ago, I might do a tutorial CD/DVD if get some more time - but right now I have to concentrate on other stuff, sorry… :shrug:

My Fault, the arm and leg flexing is done with flexmotion, the spine setup is a custom flexmotion-type script I’ve done to get around the curve flipping problem that you get with flexmotion. I can’t/don’t want to realease this stuff right now, since it’s part of my working capital, sorry - but I might do it when the time has come… ;)



@ Wegg :

You sure did a great job on the texturing!

But where did you see XSI in that reel…? It’s all messiah - though XSI is definitely a great soft for rigging too ;)



@ Razr :

That’s not true man! :) You’ll always need animators, no automation does the job for you, it is just meant to simplify certain tedious tasks, without taking the liberty from the animator’s artistic expression - I try to make the rig as flexible as possible for the animator, you can turn almost every feature on or off, like e.g. arm or head alignment to the body, and in case of the fish, you can animate everything by hand, and seamlessly blend between keyframe, dynamic and procedural animation

Btw, this kind of stuff can certainly be done in other softs as well, but probably not as easily ;)



@ eek :

The procedural motion on the fish is done through sine functions, offset in time on each joint



@ Leebert :

The wireframe primitives are the usual rig control handles for the animator ;)



@ Andy H :

The only model I did in this reel is the girl’s head. The cat model is done by Talecity Productions, the company behind the Talekeeper project



@ sforsyth :

Ooops! Thanks, I’ll correct that at the occasion ;)



@ sphere :

Is that a job offer…? :p



Thanks again all!!! :D

[Chewey]

Wonderful work! pmG could use a reel of this calibre to help promote their product.
I wonder how many viewers of this reel want to take a look at messiah now...
:thumbsup:

[roli]

Hey Marek

Great reel!
It was a pleasure to work with you on Tale city stuff, your rigs and support was one of a kind.
Keep it up!

[_-_twiggy_-_]

Hey great stuff my man!

Some of those rigs looks quite complex, i still only manage a basic toe to head bone set up, you seem to have a bone for BONE! going on hehe! awesome!

Where did you learn this?! i`m really interested in how bones work in messiah now! the automation was very impressive, i need to delve more into this!

Thanks for the inspiration and enjoy ya next job! good luck :D!

Danny!

[Layer01]

It makes me a little sad to see the XSI stuff in the reel. . . but I understand. You have to go where the work is.

what was the XSI stuff?
anyway, AWESOME REEL! loved it, very interesting things you did there, stuff i didnt even know you could do... you've got me all pumped to do some rigging lol ;)

[SpikeWorx]

That was great! :thumbsup:
But before working for your next company, do us a favour and produce some Rigging DVD´s :drool:

[maks]

@ roli :
Thanks man! It was a pleasure to work with you guys :)

@ _-_twiggy_-_ :
I just say: assiduity and patience ;)

@ Layer 01:
no XSI stuff in there, all messiah
Btw, XSI is great, too! ;)

[Nebelis]

Well it's about time! :)

Very nice demo reel and really shows your capabilities.
I've been waiting to see you're reel for some time now... Great job man. You did some great work on Talekeepers as did the whole team and we're all waiting for more :thumbsup:

[tobiasth]

AMAZING!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[michael-olszak]

Pretty nice Rigs you've got there mate.

looking really good.

[Layer01]

@ Layer 01:
no XSI stuff in there, all messiah
Btw, XSI is great, too! ;)

oh yeah! :cool: thats why i own both lol :beer:

i must say, if you ever did put out a training DVD/CD i would buy it based solely on the quality of work i have just seen.
I really had no idea you could do some of the stuff you did in that reel, i am completely boggled and how cool some of that stuff was... you have truly inspired me to look into rigging in a LOT more depth :D
once again great stuff, good publicity for pmG too...:bowdown:

[nt65]

Hi maks,
great animations/rigging etc...
You really show off Messiah.

BUt I also loved your track.

Did you put the bgd track together? Nice vibe to it.

[Chewey]

I forgot to ask, what renderer was used for these shots?
Thanks.

[maks]

Hi maks,
great animations/rigging etc...
You really show off Messiah.

BUt I also loved your track.

Did you put the bgd track together? Nice vibe to it.

Oh, no, that's definitely not me...:D
The track is "Calling Out" from Leon Parker's "Belief" :)

[maks]

I forgot to ask, what renderer was used for these shots?
Thanks.

Talekeepers was rendered in LW, and the Kaluoka'hina film was rendered in Max/Vray

[bradenbickle]

Attention PMG. Hire this guy. It's the only way we are going to get any tutorials. And his stuff is practical, usable information.

I will say this: What if everyone invested in you up front to create some tutorials? Surely we could all make it worth your while. Give us a total figure and we'll start a car wash or something. I'm serious.

You could even swap out the proprietary models with something not proprietary or more simplified and save those out as project files and let us analyze them. We would pay for that as well.

name your price dude. Name your price.

F-ing awesome.

If you want to take this offline my email address is bbickle@tribalddb.com

[igami]

wow...those are sick rigs! They all look fluid and smooth. You can do some nasty animations with those rigs. Did you do the rigs in Maya?

[Wegg]

But where did you see XSI in that reel…? It’s all messiah - though XSI is definitely a great soft for rigging too ;)

Oh sorry. I guess I assumed the woman's face was XSI due ot its quite unusual bone geometry/color and wireframe colors. But . . . the fact that it isn't. VERY cool. Again great job.

[PauHana]

Solid reel Maks!!! This will definitely impress your potential clients. One thing, after the Clown Fish rig, you typed "prodecural" on the last two rigs.

[alias-marks]

Very nice job. As a fresh starter...I am just in awe of the complexity and detail you are able to apply to your characters movement with such control. I have much respect for what you have accomplished.

I have done some short production reels of my own and wanted to merely comment on the composure of your piece. It starts out great and I am really brought in and captured with a strong start. However as the piece goes on, I feel as though your "least-strongest" work is saved for the end not leaving a the viewer with the same energy that they had in the beginning. Maybe bring it full circle and end with a couple quick clips of full animations like you have in the beginning as opposed to the movements with the whale.

Overall, I'm inspired and want to work towards what you have accomplished. Good Luck.

Mike

[mustan9]

This the best TD demo reel I have seen so far. Amazing!

I think your reel is a joy to watch. I started wishing I could play with your rigs! "Wow! Let me click and drag!!"

Great job!

[dasmin5]

These were awesome character rigs.

[og_reborn]

As someone who loves animating and hates rigging I can say I would be thrilled to work with someone half as talented as you seem to be.
Awesome and inspiring stuff.

[cecofuli]

Oh my god :eek:


amazig work and very, very good rig.

*_*

Only one word: GRATE

:thumbsup:

[Michael5188]

It has all been said, and I second it all. :applause:

[pestana]

jeeah i like the berimbau sound in the background hehhe :)

Nothing to say just a greeeeaat reel !! Check a job at Pixar :thumbsup:

[seankeeton]

That's absolutely phenomenal! I'm drooling at the thought of being able to animate characters rigged that well. They seem perfect for really focusing on the acting rather than fighting the rig to move how you want it. I really wish I could get my hands on onna those babies to animate for my reel.

[krisr]

Very nice rigging! Do you mind if I ask how you set up the tail rig on the cat?

[djmaya3d]

OMG!!! this are the best rigs i have ever seen. Magnifique travail! :thumbsup:
Man i'll work for free just to use those rigs!:bounce: (just kidding :rolleyes: )

I am gonna learn that software just in case one day i get to use your rigs.

i am comparing those rigs are a digital ambrosia.
/bows to your amazing skills

encore des felicitations. j'oublie mon francais. (pardone les erreurs :P )

[Taron333]

I'm speechless! Wonderful stuff! Feels like "perfect" rigging! Very ingenius and elegant! Very clever reel, too! It's fun and inspiring to watch! Music at some point becomes a little challenging, but the general choice even there is excellent! :thumbsup:

CONGRATULATIONS! And I lift my hat to you! Rock on! :buttrock:

NOw just how will you deal with the job offers.....
...super exciting stuff and another big boost for us at pmG to push even harder with the next release!!! SWEEEEEET! Thank you so much! :applause:

Taron

[LiquidSpider]

wow.. im so jealous!

awesome

[unwrap]

That is simply amazing :eek: !

[kndrewa]

f-ing a.


nice.

[padib]

wow! yep, if you ever put out a tutorial dvd, count me in!

[joshin42]

Absolutely amazing! Such great cartoon animation! Your rigging is truly amazing. That angel fish is quite hardcore! Keep up the awesome work!

:scream:

[Layer01]

Attention PMG. Hire this guy. It's the only way we are going to get any tutorials. And his stuff is practical, usable information.

I will say this: What if everyone invested in you up front to create some tutorials? Surely we could all make it worth your while. Give us a total figure and we'll start a car wash or something. I'm serious.

You could even swap out the proprietary models with something not proprietary or more simplified and save those out as project files and let us analyze them. We would pay for that as well.

name your price dude. Name your price.

F-ing awesome.

If you want to take this offline my email address is bbickle@tribalddb.com


LOL that is one of the coolest and craziest ideas i have ever heard of. i like it.
imagine starting a web site where users join up, donate via paypal or maybe a subscription and then with the funds recieved the site pays highly talented artsist to make tutorial DVD's. think of the money not as a bribe but as a sort of scholarship type thing, allowing the artist to create the DVD were previously it would'nt have been possible. and then those who donated (a certain ammount) get the DVD free, those who donated less get it half price or something and the rest just buy it normally...
and to avoid confusion a full list of the tpic(s) in the DVD would be up before hand...
hahaha its just so crazy it might work :D

[VirtualFM]

Hey Marek! Way to go! You're the MAN!

Awesome TD reel!

[Radiospank]

frickin awesome.. i love the fish animation....

[RR.]

It's good job

[RR.]

Great riggs!! a professional job!!

[phoenix]

Simply amazing

Regards

[Sherif.Nagib]

I watched it 8 times till now, amazing kick a$$ reel, really inspiring .

[madmanmagic]

MAKS!
WOW
Dan

[stooch]

you did the bird? that is a brilliant rig.

[maks]

Hey, thanks again for all your compliments and encouragements!!! :)

@ alias_marks : I think you're right about the missing energy at the end of the reel. I made a new version with the Kaluokahina film sequence at the end and I think it makes the reel more balanced. Thanks for the suggestion :) To all, I'll upload the new version later today and swap the files - I'll post a message before I do so, so that I hopefully won't break any peoples downloads...

@ krisr : the tail is basically just 3 manual controls that control the tail base, the lower tail curl and the tip curl. This way the animator has more control over the tail animation and delays than with a fully automated chain IMO

@ Taron : thanks for the nice words man :) I'm glad if my reel can give you a boost, and I hope that it helps to show off the capabilities of messiah :thumbsup:

@ Virtual FM : hey Fernando! Still on cookies? :D How are ya man?

Thanks again and :beer: to everyone!!!

[Shenan]

Excellent reel, and like others have said, very inspirational!

Regarding the structure of the reel, I thought it was standard practice to post the strongest work at the beginning to make an immediate impact in case people don't watch all the way. Although all your work is so good that you probably don't have to worry about that. :)

Another thing: if you guys all decide to do the "put the money together to fund a tutorial DVD", I would recommend using www.fundable.org (http://www.fundable.org) to set it up. It has a very cool fundraising management concept that should work perfectly for something like this.

Shenan

[Darktwin]

Ditto, ditto, ditto, to what everyone else is saying, really amazing stuff, great job, and kick ass!!! :thumbsup:

[My Fault]

@ My Fault and Parsec3d :

Like I already said some time ago, I might do a tutorial CD/DVD if get some more time - but right now I have to concentrate on other stuff, sorry… :shrug:

My Fault, the arm and leg flexing is done with flexmotion, the spine setup is a custom flexmotion-type script I’ve done to get around the curve flipping problem that you get with flexmotion. I can’t/don’t want to realease this stuff right now, since it’s part of my working capital, sorry - but I might do it when the time has come… ;)


Bummer my bribe didn't work, guess I will have to resort to the incriminating photos of you and Madonna :)

Seriously though I really appreciate all the help you have provided on this forum. I wish pMg would fix that issue and improve their docs a bit. You show that with all your hard earned knowledge, messiah is capable of so much. Big kudos to you again for a great rig and also nice job to the animators as well. Super!

[Amaan]

wow! David Maas always told me that you're good. Now I know exactly how good! some very cool ideas in your reel. simply awesome!!!

[DerPixelschubser]

I love your red parrot! My first emotion was a great smile :)

[mahmoudcg]

wat was that???
i've just seen unbeleivable rigs
controls spreading, sliders floating everywhere , wat was that? CG? i bet

the reel starts normal,
the cat makes you think like "aha good trick for the waist and tail",
the toon char... "i've never seen this before"
the fat face guy... "that was for sure brilliant"
then the tongue man..."greaat wat kind of rigger is he, didn't leave anything"

then comes the bird and fish to make you freeze on your seat
its superb rigging
the wings, the fish tail and fins, that lion fish
it seams that bones know how to fly and swim :)
animators will just open the rig and say "hey fish! swim to frame 120" :)

superb work maks
one of the best reels i've watched

waiting for your dvds

[ErAn-C]

You did a really nice job. keep it up, and it will sure be great to see some tutorials from you, cause I know there's much to learn.

[f10na]

O my goodness. I don't know whether to be truly inspired, or totally intimidated and go back to playing with legos :shrug: Seriously, that was truly awesome.
Cheers
Fi

[bradenbickle]

LOL that is one of the coolest and craziest ideas i have ever heard of. i like it.
imagine starting a web site where users join up, donate via paypal or maybe a subscription and then with the funds recieved the site pays highly talented artsist to make tutorial DVD's. think of the money not as a bribe but as a sort of scholarship type thing, allowing the artist to create the DVD were previously it would'nt have been possible. and then those who donated (a certain ammount) get the DVD free, those who donated less get it half price or something and the rest just buy it normally...
and to avoid confusion a full list of the tpic(s) in the DVD would be up before hand...
hahaha its just so crazy it might work :D

It's not crazy at all. He just needs to give us a price on what would make it worth his efforts, then I will personally start a fund raising site to get the money until he caves in. No kidding. As far as PMG is concerned. Can you f-ing imagine him and Taron in the same room? Come on guys, you will kick A.

I thought of a similar experiement with creating a "See Anna Kornikova in all her glory.com" fund raising effort. Just $1.00 per male and there would HAVE to be enough to get her to do it. :)

[krisr]

@ krisr : the tail is basically just 3 manual controls that control the tail base, the lower tail curl and the tip curl. This way the animator has more control over the tail animation and delays than with a fully automated chain IMO

Ah ok. I saw the one sphere rotating and I thought you had some fancy setup that would automatically whip the tail around based on the rotation and/or speed of the rotation of that control sphere. Anyway, good stuff!

[Fus|on]

AWESOME STUFF, wish I could rig like that someday

[harmonic01]

OMFG, WOW, that was awesome. :thumbsup:

[andreasng]

sigh ... watching something this advanced teaches me only one thing. - I AM NOT GOOD ENOUGH yet - I have absolutly no idea how to make some of these things. However I'm sure that I would be able to do a so-so version of these bendy gooy features, but it would never ever work as smoothly as your version.

thans m8, now I'm all depressed the rest of the day ;)

[Liuba]

Wow! It's awesome! I like it very much! Good work! :thumbsup:

[maks]

Hey, don't be depressed man - when I started out in this business 5 years ago I didn't know neither how to do those things :p It's all about working experience. Well, not all, but a big part :)

sigh ... watching something this advanced teaches me only one thing. - I AM NOT GOOD ENOUGH yet - I have absolutly no idea how to make some of these things. However I'm sure that I would be able to do a so-so version of these bendy gooy features, but it would never ever work as smoothly as your version.

thans m8, now I'm all depressed the rest of the day ;)

[tjnyc]

Awesome stuff! You really impressed peeps here at BSS.

[maks]

Doh! Now that's a honor to hear to be able to impress people at Blue Sky...! :eek:
Actually I intended to send a reel there as well...:D Didn't know that you are working at BSS now - congrats on that job dude!

Awesome stuff! You really impressed peeps here at BSS.

[tjnyc]

The interest is real, so you should definitely send your reel. PM me if you want me to pass on your reel.

Cheers,

[Trep]

some kick ass rigs ther my friends, esspecially the parrot wings, love it :)

[Layer01]

I thought of a similar experiement with creating a "See Anna Kornikova in all her glory.com" fund raising effort. Just $1.00 per male and there would HAVE to be enough to get her to do it. :)


now THAT is genius! :buttrock:
:beer:

[squeezestudio]

wow ! loves your rig ! awesome reel !

[dunsoner]

AWESOME JOB ON THE RIGGIN!:buttrock: If I where to animate your models I would be in love:D
Good animated clips to. Keep it up, looking foward to more of your work.

[Julez4001]

Chiming in late but fantastic work my friend.

[El Nacho]

Hey man... I will not say how cool that was beacuse I think it has been said enough.


I just have to ask, could you please point us aspiring riggers-animators to learning resources to know more about this stuff?

Any books, tutorial DVDs, excersices, Yoga positions... scientology principles... anything..! Im studiying 3D animation in school right now, and we only cover the basic "stick-to-reality" rigs....

Any words of wisdom as to where to point our efforts will be greatly appreciated.

El Nacho.

P.S: That's the coolest TD reel I've ever seen.

[jimkong]

Hi,How to cortrol the Toe and Ground? Can you tell me? Thanks.
http://bbs.cgtop.net/attachment/Fid_147/147_22433.jpg

[doe]

hell yeah, that motivates me to go back to messiah.
thanks for the inspiration.

[jumper3d]

Wow, Awsome...

How long did it take you to do the 'design' part of the rigs? Eg. the cat? Did you get a list to complete or did you design the whole rig and ranges yourself?

Anyway, beautiful work and you deserve all the praise you're getting.

[Suricate]

Hey, don't be depressed man - when I started out in this business 5 years ago I didn't know neither how to do those things :p It's all about working experience. Well, not all, but a big part :)

Hi Maks, I was just wondering: What was your background when you entered 3D animation ? Do you have a more technical or a more artistical background ?

[maks]

Hi Maks, I was just wondering: What was your background when you entered 3D animation ? Do you have a more technical or a more artistical background ?

A bit of both I guess... I studied Architecture :)

[Suricate]

Aah, I see ... In my experience, people involved in CG can be divided into the artists and the technical guys and usually there is a communicational barrier :banghead: between those two camps. I guess as a TD it is important to understand both worlds.

[gsuttor]

Hey Maks, briliant rigs buddy. Well done and I hope you get a job at some kick arse studio for your efforts. Where are all the 9 points rigs? hehe ;)

Cheers,
Geoff

[bradenbickle]

Hi,How to cortrol the Toe and Ground? Can you tell me? Thanks.
http://bbs.cgtop.net/attachment/Fid_147/147_22433.jpg


I would love to know that as well. I keep trying but never seem to figure it out.

[maks]

Ok, I put together a simplified scene of the leg/foot setup, for your reverse-engineering pleasure :)

http://maks.free.fr/tech/ms_Leg_Setup.mpj

[fwtep]

Very nice setup. And if you turn on Animate Immediate it's ridiculously fast and easy to use!

Fred

[DMack]

Fred,

I think you guys need to, somehow, get Maks to do a tutorial DVD(s) on rigging!

I'd order it tommorow!

David

[SpikeWorx]

Nice setup. Thanks for sharing :thumbsup:

[maks]

Fred,

I think you guys need to, somehow, get Maks to do a tutorial DVD(s) on rigging!

I'd order it tommorow!

David


David,

again, it's not depending on pmG if I'd do a tutorial DVD or not, it's simply a matter of available time and dedication, wich I just don't have at the moment, sorry...:rolleyes: I appreciate your claim though :) As I said, if ever I have some time available I'll think of it, but please don't quote me on this ;)

[Suricate]

Interesting leg rig, Maks! :applause: More complex than Joe Cosman's rig, but also more sophisticated. Thanks!

[bradenbickle]

Ok, I put together a simplified scene of the leg/foot setup, for your reverse-engineering pleasure :)

http://maks.free.fr/tech/ms_Leg_Setup.mpj

Thanks dude. That is something I've been trying to figure out for a long time.

[My Fault]

Appreciate you putting that file up Marek, really clears up a few things.

So how much beer will it take to have you put up a leg with the flexmotion attached? :D

[Parsec3d]

second that ,, how much mask ,, how much ?.. :)

[Julez4001]

Maks - Rigging DVD
Taron - Rendering DVD
bundle package and add water.

Should the ground be animatable, whats the advantage to that, Maks?

[p0lym0rph]

great work, clap, clap, clap

[maks]

great work, clap, clap, clap
Merci gars :)

[DMack]

Maks - Rigging DVD
Taron - Rendering DVD
bundle package and add water.

Should the ground be animatable, whats the advantage to that, Maks?

I've also got animatable ground for a character - for steps or change in ground height in general.

[WesComan]

Hey Marek

Wow! That's some awesome work there and very inspiring too! Thanks for posting it :thumbsup:

[bradenbickle]

i played around with the file you sent and it really helped me out a lot.

Thanks

I have a couple questions.

I have never understood the difference between IK2D and IKTel or any of the other options for that matter. What's the difference?

Also, is the UPVector used to keep the toe and foot IK from spinning on the bank channels? I applied it as well as the knee control and really like it. I just wanted to get some background on the reasons for using it so I'm not just blindly using it.

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