Procedural Rigging with Construction Kits using Voodoo by Matt L Derksen

Procedural Rigging with Construction Kits using Voodoo from Matt L Derksen on Vimeo.

Muscle Training to Joint Reconstruction by Hans Godard

Muscle Training to Joint reconstruction from Hans Godard on Vimeo.

Links, enlaces et liens - GDC 2017 Edition

www.animstate.com/free-gdc-2017-animation-talks/
A list of all animation talks from GDC2017.

http://www.animstate.com/animation-exchange-2017-recording-feedback/
The link above contains links to each section of the excellent #ANIMX talk that was held during the latest GDC. Below is the full stream (8+ hours!) in case you want to watch the whole thing (as I did).


Watch live video from TwitchOffice on www.twitch.tv

The Motion Capture Pipeline of The Last of Us

Daydream Labs: Animator

Playing with the Graph Editor in VR must be interesting, to say the least ;)

Fusion4D: Real-time Performance Capture of Challenging Scenes

Allright Rig For Unreal Engine 4

This is the future of animation for video games.

Links, enlaces et liens

http://www.creativebloq.com/3d/download-free-versatile-3d-characters-11618979
Free rigs!!

http://www.catsuka.com/news/2016-02-07/dofus-livre-1-julith-en-salles-depuis-cette-semaine
I love the style of this film! The link is in french though, but you can still watch the videos.

http://www.animatedspirit.com/weight/
A nice post about adding weight to 2D animation.


http://venturebeat.com/2016/03/16/epic-games-shows-amazing-real-time-motion-capture-demo-for-ninja-theorys-hellblade/
I find this tech more helpful to both the director and the mocap actor because they can see the character realtime. For animators, they still have to clean up the data, so no change there.

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tech/toonz-software-used-studio-ghibli-futurama-made-free-open-source-138111.html
It's out! Download it here!

http://www.dualshockers.com/2016/03/15/ubisoft-introduces-motion-matching-the-first-step-to-next-gen-animation/
I've seen a similar demo last year when I was working at Ubisoft.

Unity GDC demo - Adam - Part I

The lighting looks excellent in this demo! Looking forward for part two. :)

Skull Chaser - Behind the Scenes

What I find impressive of this "Behind the Scenes" is that it was all done in Blender!

GP -"Skull Chaser" Fan art, character by Jake Parker, based on a Anthony Holden anim) by Daniel M. Lara (Pepeland) from psl on Vimeo.

Links, enlaces et liens

https://www.toolchefs.com/?page_id=225
Some really good tools for Maya.

http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/creating-the-illusion-of-speed/
Cool read with some tips about motion blur and how to create the illusion of speed.


http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1021791/Animation-Bootcamp-The-Animation-Process
The animation process behind Ori and the Blind Forest video game.

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/making-of-uncharted-4-a-thiefs-end/
A brief behind the scenes look at Uncharted 4 video game.

http://ow.ly/Wbjrd
DreamWorks pipeline explained by Skipper

http://www.twitch.tv/finespline/profile
Ben Sanders Twitch channel. He has A TON of hours of content about animation. Worth to check it out.

https://www.patreon.com/morganloomis?ty=p
Morgan Loomis has created a Patreon page to support him create tools!  
 

Hellblade Development Diary 20: Movement & Control

Epic explains animation tech behind Paragon game

These two videos are long but totally worth it. There is a lot of stuff that could be very useful (and applicable) to other systems.

My Life In Monsters: Meet the Animator Behind Star Wars and Jurassic Park

[GDC 2015] Animation of The Order: 1886

Links, enlaces et liens

A heavy loaded post since it's been a while I didn't post anything...

https://www.reeview.it/player

Great tool for reviewing videos directly from Youtube or Vimeo. When I tried it, it only worked with Chrome (it didn't work on Waterfox, the 64-bit version of Firefox).


http://livestream.com/gnomon/world-class-animator
Marco Marenghi's speech about how to become a professional animator.

http://rustyanimator.com/memorable/
Some tips for creating memorable animations.

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/animating-with-constraints/
I've been using these setups for a while now and they work.

http://yokai.com/
Some reference for artists.

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/going-off-model-hotel-transylvania-2/
How animators modified the rigs for extreme poses.

http://www.kruelgames.com/tools/kuadro/
Cool tool for artists!

http://www.stickybones.com/
Looks like a really interesting puppet for stopmotion

Step into the Page with Glen Keane

I love Glen's style, but I think the tech that is being showcased here is even better.


Glen Keane – Step into the Page from Future Of StoryTelling on Vimeo.

Paul E. Neale Track Editor tool for 3dsmax FREE

Go to this link, watch the tutorials, be amazed (and wonder how come Autodesk hasn't implemented something like this before), download it and install it.

http://www.penproductions.ca/scripts/trackEditor/

Crazy tool!

Enjoy!

akeytsu demo

I love the graph editor!

Links, enlaces et liens

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020639/Technical-Artist-Bootcamp-Hacking-MotionBuilder
Great tips and trick for Motionbuilder by Brad Clark. You will need a GDC Vault user to watch it though.

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/filmmaker-transforms-nintendo-power-glove-into-awesome-1679408095
Cool gadget!! Not sure how it will be useful for a 3D program like Maya, but cool nevertheless.

http://www.cgmeetup.net/forums/files/file/67-pink-panther/
Pink Panther rig!!

http://www.3dfiggins.com/writeups/fastAction/
Great breakdown on an action shot by Kiel Figgins.