bhAnimSphere Demo 1
Writing a new animation tool! Wouldn't it be handy sometimes if you could visualize animation on any control on a character as a sphere and hide everything else in one click? And then just one other...
View ArticleSnout from Artella test shot
Animated this quick test today to test out 3 things : animating in Maya 2018 for the first time, this super appealing rig from Artella and the really fun workflow demonstrated by Rick Arroyo here :...
View ArticleThe Beast Awakens
A creature test I animated using a cool rig from Kiel Figgins.Cast:Brian Horgan and Kiel FigginsTags:animation, creature, maya, cg, beast, student reel, animation reel, dragon beast, kiel figgins,...
View ArticleChester the Monkey
Quick walk test with the new Chester rig from iAnimate.net. Very fun character, great rig too as always from Victor Vinyals.Cast:Brian Horgan, iAnimate and Victor VinyalsTags:animation, chester, cg,...
View Articlebh_AnimSphere Demo 2
Update Nov 1st - Now available! - gumroad.com/l/pSgco#Some progress on my 'bh_AnimSphere' tool, now called bh_AnimProxy since it can create cubes too.. I've added a GUI where you can choose sphere or...
View Articlebh_animProxy - Installation and Usage
My new animation tool bh_animProxy is now available, this video runs through how to install and use it. The tool is available now from my Gumroad page : gumroad.com/l/pSgco#Hope it comes in...
View ArticleDragonBeast WalkTest
Blocked out a quick walk cycle with this great rig from Kiel Figgins a couple of weeks back to try to figure out how it might move.Cast:Brian Horgan and Kiel FigginsTags:dragon, dragonbeast, maya, kiel...
View ArticleMeet Leo
Never let it be said my love for cats is only skin-deep.. Meet Leo, my new rig/quadruped animation personal learning project. Rig and animation needs a lot of work yet but I'm excited to see it moving...
View ArticleBoone Run Cycle - The Sexy Brutale.
A run cycle I animated for Boone, the star of the Sexy Brutale game early last year. I see lots I'd do differently now but I'm proud it made it into the game as his main fast locomotion...
View ArticleMonkey Snacks
Another quick test shot with the Chester rig from iAnimate. Really fun character to animate with. This was based on reference of a Spider monkey so I pretty much had to add a tail :)Cast:Brian Horgan...
View ArticleBrian Horgan_Creature Animation Reel_2017
A selection of animals, creatures and eh.. Deadpools.. I've animated over the last year or so. Hope you enjoy it!Cast:Brian HorganTags:reel, animal animation, creature, animation reel, creature...
View Articlebh_pathAnim Beta1
I'm writing a new tool for path animation, my goal is to make it simple and intuitive to attach any rig, with any number of limbs and body controls, to a path and animate it walking or running along...
View Articlebh_pathAnim beta RigTest1
A practical test of the path animation tool I'm writing (demo video here vimeo.com/245022447 ) with a rig I built recently. I noticed a few things I want to improve on workflow-wise but the...
View ArticleHow to train your Velociraptor - bh_pathAnim workflow demo.
I'm testing my new path animation tool a lot at the moment before releasing it. To do this I've done several quick tests with different rigs. I thought I'd make a video while working on this one to...
View Articlebh_pathAnim Workflow Demo 2 : Attaching a complex rig
EDIT ! I've since come up with a fully automatic way of setting the hook offsets..just working on implementing it to the main script. So this video will be obsolete very soon as the final workflow will...
View Articlebh_pathAnim time-lapse demo : Beetle rig
EDIT ! I've since come up with a fully automatic way of setting the hook offsets..just working on implementing it to the main script. So this video will be obsolete very soon as the final workflow will...
View Articlebh_pathAnim : Final Setup Demo
I've made a big improvement to the workflow for my path animation system today, the setup process is now much simpler due to more scripted automation under the hood. It's now really fast to get a...
View ArticleLobster_bh_pathAnimTest
Trying to get more snap in my animation.. A very quick bh_pathAnimation test with 8 legs.. very fast to set up now since the latest update to my script.Cast:Brian HorganTags:animation, maya, creature,...
View ArticleSpider_bhPathAnim Test
Another 8-legged test with my new path animation tool. For this one I used a global time warp to ease the animation in and out a little and a bend deformer on the paths to get the curved travel. At...
View Articlebh_pathAnim - Complete Workflow run-through
bh_pathAnim is now available! - gumroad.com/l/SBUCXbh_pathAnim is a robust and flexible new tool for path animation in Maya. This video shows the complete workflow from installing to final baked...
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