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Robot Squids: February 2015

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Saturday, 7 February 2015. Sprite Slicer is a tool that significantly speeds up the creation of image planes or sprites in Maya. It automatically generates the planes in the correct aspect ratio with perfectly aligned UVs. The smart algorithm in Bounds mode recognizes all separate shapes and creates sprites for them. Additional settings allow you to fine tweak the shape recognition. To download the tool visit this link: Sprite Slicer. The dragon character is from Bubble Rumble. Sprite Sheet: URL for the ...

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Robot Squids: Variable foot rig

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Monday, 8 September 2014. The foot is one of the areas that doesn't get special attention when rigging a character. Many rigs have the standard inverse foot setup that makes the animator slide a bunch of attributes and try to get something they like. I like to keep everything on the character without messing too much with sliding numbers in tiny boxes. That way the animator can quickly experiment with poses and get organic shapes. Here is the setup I came up with:. The model is owned by Irie Studios.

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Robot Squids: Sprite Slicer

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Saturday, 7 February 2015. Sprite Slicer is a tool that significantly speeds up the creation of image planes or sprites in Maya. It automatically generates the planes in the correct aspect ratio with perfectly aligned UVs. The smart algorithm in Bounds mode recognizes all separate shapes and creates sprites for them. Additional settings allow you to fine tweak the shape recognition. To download the tool visit this link: Sprite Slicer. The dragon character is from Bubble Rumble. Sprite Sheet: URL for the ...

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Robot Squids: October 2014

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Sunday, 5 October 2014. I'll show you how you can use some basic math knowledge to manipulate points in 3D space. Knowing vectors and points will allow you to fully understand how objects are positioned, translated around, how matrices work, how quaternions are rotated, aim constrains calculated and much, much more. First let me show you what we will be making and after that you will see how easy it is to make something like this:. This is made using Fabric Splice in Maya. Here is the download link.

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Robot Squids: Rigging Reel 2014

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Tuesday, 18 November 2014. Creature rigging in Autodesk Maya using Maya Muscle. A custom flexible auto rigging script for the Variable FK trunk was written in PyMel. Organic and flexible foot posing using only a couple of controls without stacking of a large number of variable foot parameters. This solution allows the animator to position the pivot on any part of the foot and control the direction and falloff of the bend. 04 Smooth Skin Decomposition. A 3D shape is projected onto a plannar mesh and raste...

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Robot Squids: September 2013

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Thursday, 19 September 2013. Sliding Pivot Foot Roll Tutorial. In this tutorial I show how you can create a sliding pivot foot roll using nodes. The first part of the rig is the same as Chris Lesage's rig. But instead of an expression i used nodes. And I only add some stuff on top of that to make it work for any shape. Make sure to visit Chris's site. And check out his awesome reel. The final node graph. Thursday, 12 September 2013. Pymel Bone Split Tutorial part 02. Any comments and questions are welcome.

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Robot Squids: December 2013

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Tuesday, 24 December 2013. As promised here is a video showing the rig. I have also included a small demonstration of the script that I wrote to automate the trunk creation. The technique for the variable FK rig was demonstrated by Jeff Brodsky in this video. I was only responsible for the elephant rig and deformation. Everything else is done by the guys at Irie studios. Elephant Ride rig demo. The video, music and registered trademarks or trademarks are property of their respective owners.