PEN Productions Inc. is back for another year to provide the best possible 3D technical support, modeling and pipeline devleopment to our old and new clients.

PEN has a wide range of experience working with clients all over the world in almost every area of 3D out there. Currently PEN is working with multiple game companies and broadcast televisions companies on projects for kids to adults.

If you are interested in what PEN can do for you and your production please call us or drop us an email. Contact..

PEN Productions supports Hatch Studios on the recent Toblerone Christmas commercial. Read more about it here.

Hatch Studios contracts PEN Productions to create the character rigs and facial system for the next installment of the award winning Robin Hood commercials. Read more about it here.

PEN Productions worked with Stuart Simms and team, including production guru Joe Gunn to create Dead Space 2008 / No Known Survivors trailer. PEN Productions created the character rig that would be used in multiple characters for two trailers. This rig incorporated some of PEN's latest character system tools, called RAIC, that allows for such things as real time motion capture conversion in 3DS Max from TRC files and a host of other tools for working with characters in complex animated shots and productions.

Technical write up has been posted here.

I have created three new demo videos of the wing rig that was developed for Eyeball NYC for the Bella Sara project. The first shows the animation work flow and has a brief description of how it works. The second and third are showing a simple animation test using the dynamics on the feathers.

Bella Sara and Wing Rig Demos..

I have finaly updated PEN Reset X Forms to be compatable with 64bit versions of Max. I have also added a couple of new tools. Read more about it here.

Pete hangs out at CG Talk a whole lot sharing Max script and Dot Net wisdom to all that will listen. He has finaly launched a web site with great reference for Max script and Dot Net scripting in 3DS Max.

http://lonerobot.com

Forth part of the DotNet tutorials is complete. A simple example of using a DotNet button control.

DotNet Tutorials..

The frist half of the DotNet XML tutorial is up. This covers the use of xmlDocument to write scene object data out to an XML formated file using the scene hierarchy.

The second half of this tutorial covers how to read XML files and recreate the data that was stored in the first half.

XML Writing Tutorial..
XML Reading Tutorial..

DotNet Tutorials..

In this tutorial I cover how to setup and use a dotNet treeView control to display the hierarchy of objects in Max and select objects using the list.

DotNet Tutorials..

In these tutorials I try to explain how to use dotNet controls and objects in Max script to enhance UI design and functionality of scripted tools. I have completed the first tutorial on dotNet listView control and how to create, populate and access it.

DotNet Tutorials..

This tutorial will show you how to get Z-Depth and fog in compositing out of the same render pass.

PEN Productions worked with Eyeball NYC on several productions in 2007 working on character rigs and motion capture conversion tools.

The Bio Shock trailer done by Eyeball was in need of advanced rigs that would handle motion capture and hand animation. The base character rig used Puppet Shop from Lumonix and the muscle and deformation systems were handled with standard 3DS Max tools all driven with custom code and tools. Read more about it here or watch the full trailer here.

Bella Sara is a fantasy style commercial that was in need of a wing setup for the horse. PEN Productions created a solution that incorporated real time dynamics to drive the feathers that also had full manual control. Read more about it here.