Kiel Figgins
@KielFiggins
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Associate Animation Supervisor @ILMVFX - London // Anim Rigs :
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Here's my decade in film animation. Proud to have played a role in so many amazing project.
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1) "Using video reference (for animation) is cheating"
2) "Using 3d to block in shapes, perspective and light direction is cheating"
Everything I was exploring in school was slapped down by purest, only to find that both are 100% viable in a production environment.
Artists: Did you ever have a bad art-school critique that really set you back, knocked you off your pins?
What was it? Keep it short; don’t exaggerate. Often, it can be the least thing.
Have you ever made a “revenge” work of art?
What was it?
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Teaming up with Darren Bartley
@fightpunch
on his Tribal series. Initial rig and sim test, since the poncho plays a big part in the character design, I wanted to test my workflow before starting animation. High res
#Tribal
#Korlyn
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Wow, this took off! There's been a lot of questions on how, so here's the arm breakdown and an example file you can reverse engineer if your interested. Thanks again!
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🛠️nCloth for Animators Tutorial🛠️
How to setup, sim and bake nCloth motion onto rigs from an animator's point of view and how I personal handle character's accessories
Rigid objects, Cloth, Jiggles are covered and tools provided to help you get started!
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Some rig tests for Tribal (
@fightpunch
) support characters. Not polished work, more to check the setup and wrap my head around the design / motion types. More to come!
Model by
High Res/Notes:
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🔹🔹FREE RIG🔹🔹
🐢⚔️TMNT Raf Rig now available at !
Full range of controls for body/face/accessories and game ready!
Concept :
@NicolaSaviori
Model :
@KenyArticho
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🎇Debris Emitter (Maya Animation Tool)🛠️
Free download
Here's the tool I use to create duplicate poly meshes with baked transforms that I can easily duplicate/offset/adjust after the sim is created.
Bullet casings, rocks, wood shards, go nuts!
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Nora with a flourish! Rig available at (custom rope setup not include :) Amazing work
@TuxedoPato
!
I was recently annoyed at animating ropes in 3D so I created a new tool.
It's not polished, but I made this test anim in about 6-8 hours using it.
This tool basically can create IK splines over anything while preserving existing animation. I will release it after I test more 🎈
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😕⚔️ Shao Nian Rig now available at ! Full range of controls for body/face/accessories and game ready!
Model :
Concept :
📡 RT for a chance to win a free download!
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Advertise your account with one animation
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🔹🔹FREE RIG🔹🔹
🐢🍕🟠TMNT Mike Rig now available at !
Full range of controls for body/face/accessories and game ready!
Concept :
@NicolaSaviori
Model :
@KenyArticho
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From The Archive : Demon Skin Suit
Animating a demon putting on a skin suit back in 2006
Full project breakdown/high res:
Questions? by all means ask!
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My son has started to express interest in animation. I couldn't be more proud of his first one!
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TL:DR - I'm now permanent at ILM and as things settle, I'll showcasing some of the work (prof/personal/experimental/RnD/tech) that I shelved over the past several years. As for those reasons why and what's ahead, please read below.
Fun stuff on the way :)
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🔹🔹FREE RIG🔹🔹
🐢🟣TMNT Don Rig now available at !
Full range of controls for body/face/accessories and game ready!
Concept :
@NicolaSaviori
Model :
@KenyArticho
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🔹🔹FREE RIG🔹🔹
🐢⚔️🔵TMNT Leo Rig now available at !
Full range of controls for body/face/accessories and game ready!
Concept :
@NicolaSaviori
Model :
@KenyArticho
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Starting the new year off celebrating 5 years at ILM and being promoted to Associate Animation Supervisor.
Good times 😀
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👀Looking for an animator to give my new wing setup a quick pose test/flap cycle. Lemme know if your interested and available in the next 24/48 hours.
I think the setup works/makes sense to me, but I'm pretty far down the rabbit hole, so would like a second opinion!
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Designers, try to consider range of motion on armor. Even a single facet can allow for so many more options in animation.
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Anim tools I wrote to not animate accessories:
-Shoulder pads (link below)
-Mapping mocap
-nCloth Driven controls
-dynHair Driven controls
The anim/sim are rough, more about process than polish.
Rig available at
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@ferhra
asked the weirdest thing weve animated? Mine was a beetle who's head transformed into a Gatlin gun and shot smaller beetles... was a pitch for a music video over 15 years ago.
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Leo takes on Dragon Slayer! Rig available at , great work
@artist_leo
!
After working on Spiderverse. I felt I have learned a lot. So I tried to work on a 30s animation practice. Not finished yet but here is the first 5s.
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👯Maya: How to transfer animation from one rig to another
More so, from an unref'd rig to a ref'd one. A common problem/tech issue, esp for new animators that animated in the rig file and now can't use pipeline tools looking for a namespace/file path
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Animation Tip: As tempting as it is, humans and their limbs don't really bounce when they land, it's more of a crumple...
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Finally get to say what I've been working on...
Avatar: The Way of Water!
It's going to be an incredible film, done by an amazing team.
I'm really excited to be a part of it!
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Working on Avatar 2 was an incredible experience, I couldn't be more pleased to have my name share the screen with all the talented and hardworking individuals who made it come to life. Congrats
@weta_digital
and
@ILMVFX
!
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🏴☠️🧙♀️ An'oum rig now available at !
Full range of controls for body / face / accessories and game ready!
Model / Concept :
@KOramasionwu
📡 RT for a chance to win a free download!
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Bat Sniper lock and load! Rig available at (Body only, face is separate), great work
@DominicEsprit
!
Another free time animation. Playing around with the rig (
@KielFiggins
) and a little bit of lighting in maya.
#animation
#3Danimation
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🪶💎 Sasha rig now available at ! Full range of controls for body/face/accessories and game ready!
Model :
@TheGreatJug
Concept : Nadezhda Tikhomirova
📡 RT for a chance to win a free download!
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Still the most versatile rig I've ever seen and no idea how most of its achieved. Pure magic!
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The pony tail / hair of this shot has been burned into my head since the first time I saw this movie in the theatre.
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I've always liked this graph.
If I had to pick another bit of advice, it'd be that it took 13 years of applying before I got into
@ILMVFX
, sometimes it takes a while for the stars to align...
ARTISTS BIG AND SMALL
What's the best advice you could give to a beginner/small artists? 🤔
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🪰🧪🧝♀️ Abyss rig now available at ! Full range of controls for body/face/accessories and game ready!
Model :
@KenyArticho
Concept :
📡 RT for a chance to win a free download!
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Weirdest things I've Rigged:
1) A rain coat shoe
2) A whale on a radio flyer wagon
3) A fully anatomical vagina for an interactive experience
::Link Not Found::
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Always good to know the terms, even is some people don't...
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"Aim small, miss small"
Dont just apply to big studios, apply to small
Dont start big projects, finish small ones
Instead of big sporadic chunks of time, schedule small frequent ones
The goal is to build up momentum, especially after leaving school, to create a better reel.
You have one advice to give to juniors struggling to find their first job, what would it be?
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😈Nora and Pet rigs available at ! Full range of controls for body/face/accessories and game ready!
Model :
Concept :
📡RT for a chance to win a free download!
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Nora and Pet go for a walk! Rigs available at , great work
@RotemNinyo
!
Practicing on some cycles, thanks to
@pierrick_picaut
for the feedback.
Rig by
@KielFiggins
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Continuing on the Tribal character study (created by
@fightpunch
). Proxy modeling env and character and playing around with possible staging for an opening shot. Still more modeling to do before previz.
Env concept
High res
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Ghouls get sliced up! Rig available at , great work
@kee_dn
!
wanted to animate something fun! Also, I've been watching too much anime...
AZRI rig by
@GameAnim
Ghoul rig by
@KielFiggins
#animation
#3Danimation
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Options for Animating a Dress
1. Bound to Legs
2. FK Chains Keyframed
3. FK driven by Dyn Curves
4. FK driven by Simmed Low Res
5. In Engine Sim
6. Hi Res wrapped to Simmed Low Res
7. Full Res Sim (Cached)
Am I missing any?
Feels like the list hasn't change in years...
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Polis Bot Activate! Rig available at , great work
@AnimMason
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Robot anim :D I've been having a blast creating animations from one inspirational pose
- Sound design by
@dponsford_audio
- Awesome Robot rig by
@KielFiggins
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🥷🖌️⚔️ Peinto rig now available at ! Full range of controls for body/face/accessories and game ready!
Model :
@Alfher_
Concept :
@StarSoulArt
📡 RT for a chance to win a free download!
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Black throne showing off! Rig available at , great work
@lukeanimates
!
Was inspired by the animation work of
@TuxedoPato
so I made this over the past couple of nights.
Might polish it up for a showreel one day 👀
Rig credit:
@KielFiggins
Model by Joffrey Ferrandes
Concept by Natalya Glushenkova
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🛠️Creating Anim Proxies for Rigs (Maya)🛠️
A new tutorial and tool covering how I create my own proxies to help speed up animation playback on heavy rigs. Enjoy!
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"Using video reference is cheating."
Irks me to this day how I struggled with body mechanics/float/even timings because this mindset was so heavy handed in my education.
Weight shift, connectivity, nuance, natural chaos, etc... Ref is a gold mine to improve your animation
What’s the worst creative advice you have ever been given?
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💀🔫Skull Chaser rig now available at ! Full range of controls for body/face/accessories and game ready!
Model :
Rifle Model :
Concept :
📡 RT for a chance to win a free download!
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Avatar : The Way of Water Animation Reel
My small contribution to such an amazing film.
Full breakdown in the the Vimeo description.
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🕷️Proxy Spider 🕷️
⭐️Free Rig at ⭐️
A fun little rig from an older project. The spider was super small in the shot so the legs aren't as detailed, but hey, still creepy :)
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🐭⚔️ Piper rig now available at ! Full range of controls for body/face/accessories and game ready!
Model :
Concept : Koni /
📡 RT for a chance to win a free download!
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🏹 Meli rig now available at !
Full range of controls for body/face/accessories and game ready!
Model :
Concept :
📡 RT for a chance to win a free download!
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Got a little carried away doing RnD (Transferring Mixamo Motion and Dynamic Secondary) using the Abyss Rig (available at ).
Still rough, but I'm trying to get in the habit of showing WIPs. Enjoy!
@KenyArticho
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Yellow dude punch combo! Rig available at , great work
@aklipse47
!
WIP shot for a longer project I’m working on . Reference taken from the talented
@all_F808Z
and rig by the amazing
@KielFiggins
.
#3Danimation
#3D
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🔫🔫🔥 Gunner rig now available at ! Full range of controls for body/face/accessories and game ready!
Model :
@TheGreatJug
Concept : Nadezhda Tikhomirova
📡 RT for a chance to win a free download!
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AnimRef: Even Big can move fast!
Would have loved this shot in landscape though... :)
There are people in this world that think they can successfully fight one of these.
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⚔️ War Rig now Free to celebrate the launch of
#DarksidersGenesis
!
Download at
About the Rig
Model by
Based on the Art of
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Ninja Turtles! 4 Free Rigs at , great work
@Knight_Arti
!
I love 2003 TMNT animated series, So I wanted to recreate one of its intro shots with a few changes. Thanks to
@MasoudAbootale2
for his tips!
Amazing TMNT rigs:
@KielFiggins
VFX rigs:
@ShadrakGF
#3Danimation
#3D
#3DCG
#animation
#TMNT
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Bat Sniper Bat Attack! Rig available at , great work
@vanillaPuds
!
Motorcycle attack
#animation
complete! Huge thanks to Nigel Style for overseeing this shot to completion.
Rigs by
@KielFiggins
and
@AgoraCommunity_
Geo by Androcom
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Continuing Tribal (
@fightpunch
) Previz. Proxy env/char for staging the opening shot. Pillar running feels a bit long, and the ending is cut short. Still more to add/adjust, but blocking other shots first.
Video
#Tribal
#Korlyn
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Nora playing with her pet! Rigs available at , great work
@RotemNinyo
!
A personal project I recently finished was quite challenging.
Thanks to
@pierrick_picaut
for the feedback and patience.
And again thanks to
@KielFiggins
for the amazing rigs!
#animation
#animation3d
#gamedev
#game
#3D
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👦🎒 Oliver rig now available at ! Full range of controls for body/face/accessories and game ready!
Model by Oliver Hughes
📡 RT for a chance to win a free download!
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Shao Nian knows how to move! Rig available at , great work
@animslot
!
Hey ! Remerber my "How do you setup your animation?"
That's a WIP ! pretty happy about the first pass. Still a lot of works to do but it's so cool to do some stylized animation !
Rig by
@KielFiggins
#animation3d
#3D
#WIP
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3d Pipeline (as shown with bunnies) - Concept, modeling, texturing, rigging, animation...
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Yellow dude (turned white) goes on the offensive! Rig available at , great work Natchapon Wongjarusatit!
Smooth, clean, and brutal, we love the way everything comes together in Natchapon Wongjarusatit's shot!
Check out all of the entries here:
▶️
#agorastudio
#animation
#martialartschallenge
#animator
#3d
AnimChallenge is brought to you by
@AgoraCommunity_
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I don't know if I'm a good animator or just good at copying reference.
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I animated all the shots of the cable, even modeled the frayed bits used to grab the helmet. Was a fun show to work on, one of my first st DD in LA.
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⚡️💙 Free Symmetro AnimRig at !
Teamed up with
@polybutts
and
@ChallengeAnim
for their May challenge: Highlight Intro!
Winning entries gets feedback from a Blizzard Animator!
Rig breakdown / Challenge Details:
Enjoy!
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👩🦳⚔️ Queen Arthur rig now available at ! Full range of controls for body/face/accessories and game ready!
Model :
Concept :
📡 RT for a chance to win a free download!
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Ok, show me your unfinished projects that your totes going to finish one day
Steampunk Cyborg... one day I'll pick you back up...
Ok, show me your unfinished projects that your totes going to finish one day
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🛠️Leveling up my eyelid rig to support more stylized/round eyes. The main addition is the eye lid volumes (shown in blue) that help pull the lid down and out without shapes.
I pulled pieces and ideas from these eyelid setups
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Seeing animation like this makes me almost sad I've never done more stylized work. It has so much appeal, flare and is such a joy to watch, great job
@marcusssxg
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He doesn't like fruit...even if it's happy walking fruit
Small block animation to share something because everything I do is under NDA, aaaaand to have some fun with the basics 😄
#animation
#3Danimation
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Henchman and bat Sniper make an appearance! Rig available at , great work
@frosty_lolii
!
An advanced body mechanics assignment for school, took a while to finish. But I like the outcome of it! Definitely will light and readjust the BG textures in the future
#animation
#3Danimation
#3D
#3dcg
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⚡️🏃Strike rig now available at ! Full range of controls for body/face/accessories and game ready!
Model :
@polybutts
Concept :
@ZenofyMedia
📡 RT for a chance to win a free download!
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Lyette's near miss! Rig available at , great work
@chris_impactt
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Done polishing a third of the film. The real challenge starts with the next shot.
#3Danimation
#2danimation
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On 47 Ronin I hand animated hundreds of arrows, some bows didnt even have strings...
Wait till people find out almost every time a bow and arrow is drawn, the arrow is CG because they can’t have loaded weapons on set.
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Reminder when applying for anim jobs:
🔸Name your video file 'NAME Animation Reel YEAR'
🔸If pw protected, make sure the pw isnt crude
🔸Shot breakdown in the description is very helpful if you don't want to do overlays
🔸Leave out your address, don't put where you sleep online
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Yellow Dude dips and dodges! Rig available at , great work
@aklipse47
!
Been cooking with this one for a while. Easily some of my favorite work Ive done so far, and it still feels like just the beginning. The Rig, environment , debris tool and the lightning tool by
@KielFiggins
#3D
#3Danimation
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Advice I give almost every student that asks me. Short shots that you can polish, not be overwhelmed by the frame count, can swap out when a newer/better piece is made.
Think of your reel as a slot machine, if you didn't get a job, you get more spins with short shots.
8. YOU CAN LEARN MORE AND GROW QUICKER DOING MANY SHORT SHOTS, AS OPPOSED TO ONE OR TWO LONG SHOTS....Without giving yourself enough chances to fail, you won’t have as many opportunities to grow.
#animator
#animationtips
#keeplearning
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I never have anything prepped for
#PortfolioDay
so here's one of my favourite shots I did for Rise of Skywalker. Not the most complex of shots, but a great moment in the film
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kfAnimCycle - Free collection of tools to make creating cycles a bit more straightforward. Designed to work with my own rigs, but editable to work with hopefully any referenced characters.
Download / Help Doc :
Enjoy!
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Whenever I see videos like this, I imagine submitting it to a Sup or client without the ref video and seeing how fast it would be kicked back...
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🛠️Learn the basics of MEL scripting, line by line, by rigging a simple IK Arm🛠️
One of my
@VertexSchool
Mentee's wanted to learn the basics of MEL scripting, so I thought I'd share, in case any other animators had an interest...
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Ahh Bird Wing setups... just as tedious as I remember. Every couple of years, I end up rewriting and hopefully improving it...
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