I bought this rig today and took it for a test, I blocked out a progressive walk cycle using my bh_cycleTools toolset (currently in development) in about 25 minutes real time. In a separate pass later I added some details and in-betweens. Really like the rig, will definitely do more with it.
Tags:animation, georgeous george, horse, gaits, quadruped, tools, mel, maya, cg and 3d
A quick video showing how I would convert a progressive walkcycle into an in-place or treadmill style cycle so that it can be used with a path system like bh_pathAnim.
Tags:animation, mel, walk, cycle, maya, walkcycle, georgeous george, horse, trot, path, path system, bh_pathAnim and bhPathAnim
A quick tip on blocking out overlap in an arm I made for my animation students.
Tags:animation, maya, overlap and follow through
A quick demo of one of the additional tools built into my forthcoming 'bh_cycleTools' tool set. This has some options to work with Scene Time Warps in Maya which help you very quickly apply the workaround I detailed in this video a while back without taking any additional manual steps - vimeo.com/233770243
The rig in the video is from TurongCGArtist.
Tags:maya, bake, tools, animation, cycle, mel, script, bh, demo, timewarp and cg
Often you need to make broad changes to animation when it's already pretty key-heavy, particularly if you animate for VFX or block in a detailed way to live action reference. My forthcoming tool set 'bh_cycleTools' has some tools I like to use that help me deal with this in a simple and predictable way.
The rig in the video is from Kiel Figgins.
Tags:tools, maya, mel, animation, vfx, keyframes, mocap, reference and samurai
Personal project to learn the basics of setting up a 3rd person locomotion system from scratch in Unreal Engine. Lots to add and improve on but I learned a lot building it and really enjoyed the process.
The rig is one I purchased from TurongCGArtist and then modified to make it game-ready.
Tags:unreal, unreal engine, animation, game, ue, 3rd person, locomotion, gc, maya, monster and turongcgartist
Here's a quick video showing how I use bh_aimTools in Maya to help control how much weapons inherit animation from the body for game animation in Unreal Engine.
Aim Tools is available here - gumroad.com/l/bh_aimTools
Tags:maya, unreal, unity, game, animation, tools, bhaimtools and bhTools
A quick look at a tool I'm wrote that adds a 'smarter bake' to Maya when dealing with animation layers. Still in Beta so not ready for release yet.