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News and Updates: July 23, 2008

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


PEN Productions works with New York based Eyeball NYC.
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.


Quick Lesson on Trigonometry.
Max script tutorial on using Trigonometry has been added. This will get more updates in the near future.

Traditional Work.


PEN Helper has been released!
The all new customizable PEN Helper plugin is now avilable for download. Have you ever wanted a helper object that you could define the shape yourself? Here it is! Please visit down load page or the scripts page for other PEN tools and scripts.


New Tutorials April 14, 2008

These two tutorials cover how to create an IK / FK arm with twist bones in the upper and lower arm.


MX Driver:

Tutorials and Online Shopping have been added to the Car and Trailer Rig page.

Blur Studios:
Eric Hulser, Tools Developer from Blur Studios has been working on a plugin to Max to make it possible to use Python from inside of Max. Here is what Eric has said about it.

"I just finished up the first version of this DLL for 3dsMax (still pretty rough) that we're going to start using here at Blur...pretty much it embeds python for use inside of MAXScript, opening up all the modules that exist in python directly. There are some example scripts on how its used, but its relatively simple - you import your module, and work with with it as if you were in python."

You can download the plugin here. And read more about it on cgtalk here.

www.CG-Academy.Net

 

CG Academy Intermediate Rigging DVD Box Set now available by Paul Neale.

DVD #1 focuses on production methods for creating animator friendly character rigs using an Ogre model that I custom built with this series in mind.

DVD #2 continues with spline IK, arm rig and twist solutions, hands and more custom scripting for creating control Interfaces.

DVD #3 This DVD covers skinning the Ogre character using stretchy bones, morph deformers and many other techniques

DVD #4 is facial setups with targets and bones.