Hello Shiv my old friend, I've come to rig you again #rigging #animation #technicalanimation #deadlock

Funny how "I'll take a quick look" turns into "hours and hours in notepad++" Now that I know how to mirror the controls for cable component, I can simplify the face rig a bit. Less viewport clutter, less complexity. I'll take the win. #technicalanimation #mgearframework #rigging

Quite happy with how this face rig is turning out, especially the Nasal Labial Fold. Just have to wrap it up with post build scripts and default values. #animation #rigging #FACS #technicalanimation #mgearframework

Nasal labial fold and Corrugator. Just a few additional bones and verts. Nose wrinkler can be handled similarly. #animation #rigging #FACS #technicalanimation

100% gratuitous rig feature #rigging #animation #technicalanimation

I think I've had my fill of this song for a lifetime... Identified some issues to fix for next rig build. #animation #rigging #technicalanimation

More dog-fooding, just blockout pass so far, but it's working better than I anticipated. #animation #technicalanimation #rigging

When rigging it's important to check your progress frequently using the Wiggle Test® #rigging #technicalanimation #maya

Rigging, rigging never changes... #technicalanimation #animation

How do you animate wind? Noise node! Use it to drive rotation axis of the control, adjust Frequency; Frequency Ratio; Depth Max parameters etc. Animate Time attribute. If the rig doesn't have dynamics, bake the curve, paste and offset! #animation #thesixshooter #technicalanimation

How is the sauce made? Character is in place; ground is static; trees and tombstones scroll past the character; moon is small plane; big church and camera slide toward center. All smoke and mirrors... #animation #thesixshooter

Some highlights from 2025. An unexpected sabbatical year gave me time to advance my animation and technical animation skills. 2026 lets fuckin GO! #animationvsanimator #animation #technicalanimation

Gonna park it here for now. Maybe come back for some more mographic passes in the new year. #animation #thesixshooter #notoverwatch

With Critical Reflex being such a major player in the indie space, these accusations of covered up sexual harassment and unfair labour practices are all deeply disappointing and distressing. I hope this all gets tackled quickly and decisively. noisypixel.net/critical-ref...

Laying out a quickie before Jesus' b-day #animation #thesixshooter "Guns Go Bang" Kid Cudi, JAY-Z

3/4, On a mission... #animation3d #thesixshooter

ok ok hear me out... The Sixshooter

How you automate anything, is how you automate everything... something something #mgearframework #rigging #technicalanimation "We Go Harder" - Laura Mvula, Mayra Andrade

Pectoralis major, or an approximation thereof. PlusMinusAverage and UnitConversion nodes do all the heavy lifting #mgearframework #rigging #technicalanimation

Everybody loves a ROM test ROM anim Emilio Serrano CCBYNC4.0 #rigging #technicalanimation #mgearframework

finally automated elbow and puffy pants, amongst many other things, in post build script. #mgear #rigging #technicalanimation

How it started... how it's going. OC Collab w. @mrngreeny.bsky.social Still much more to be done, and many more maya crashes, but making good and steady progress! #mgear #rigging #technicalanimation

All about them springs and cables #rigging #mgear

bangles #mgear #rigging

Just a lay in, mainly to impress on my #animdiversity mentee the importance of using reference as a spring board rather than a close guide. Reference is collected, edited and reedited, timed and retimed, long before jumping in to Maya. #mentoring #animation

Cartoony revolver rig available on Gumroad. Link in reply #animation #rigging #technicalanimation

More musings from the Deity series. Always wanted to paint a sphinx of some sort but never have, they’ve always fascinated me. So why not make one for the series (or several actually). The anatomy was a fun design challenge, thanks for looking!

do you feel lucky punk? #rigging #technicalanimation

gotta let loose once in a while, even if it's all gray #animation #notspiderverse

It's been a while. Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs. store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...

This is the kind of joke that never lands.

For the last two weeks my #animdiversity mentee and I worked on this short bouldering animation referencing Janja Garnbret. We took the time to really study the ref using primitives, making sure to build a solid foundation through blocking. #mentoring #animation

Hotkeys! I love hotkeys! These hotkeys I use 97%+ of the time. I'll take hotkeys over tool windows anytime. Not that well designed tools are not good but for me they divert my attention from the viewport too frequently. pastebin link pastebin.com/u/keyojimbo #animation

First blocking pass. Second lateral swing is more challenging than the first. Important to capture the effort put into each swing by throwing her legs to gain momentum, often overlooked is the arms also play an active role. #animation #mentoring #animdiversity

What are we doing today? Same thing we do everyday.

Ramping up into another 2 week anim along side #animdiversity mentee who chose this clip. A real challenging one. Starting off with ref and pose studies before going into blocking. #animation #mentoring animdiversityfund.bsky.social

Another video showing how to study and use reference, and when to let it go. And also to reemphasise the importance of blocking and experimentation before moving to spline and polish. reference footage from ericjacobus.bsky.social #animation #mentoring animdiversityfund.bsky.social

New look at Guillermo del Toro’s ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth. (Source: @VanityFair | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-monster-jacob-elordi-guillermo-del-toro-oscar-isaac)

Sat, Sun, Mon #animation #animexercise

Do your daily exercises animators, even if it's just half an hour. #animation #mentoring

Happy as a pig with a headcrab #animchallenge #agoracommunity #animation

Portal + Cats! ⚛️ Split into two entangled cats. 🤔 Solve tricky test chambers. 🔬 Learn the labs' dark secret. Like the concept? Consider a 🔁 Share. New here? Hey, hit follow! We don't (often) bite. Game 🔍 Schrodinger's Cat Burglar on Steam #TrailerTuesday

Gaits for Dinobird: Walking, Running, and Sprinting. This was refreshingly straight forward compared to RootYaw and Jumping, and it works pretty well with the other systems with no nasty surprises. A good week! #unrealengine5 #controlrig #proceduralanimation #technicalanimation

Here we go again #PORTFOLIODAY2025 #portfolioday

Started implementing Jump Wed last week, figuring it was gonna be relatively easy and fast. I was wrong, so so wrong. But after three days of banging my head against the wall, the wall fell. Now Murder bird can jump, jump, jump #unrealengine5 #controlrig #proceduralanimation

Puro #animation #flamenco

fondo... #animation #WIP

Break through. Spent large part of the week not having success getting Root Yaw Offset applied to the actual character without horrible contortions, but then it clicked yesterday. Quite a big difference with than without it! #unrealengine5 #proceduralanimation #controlrig