Character Rigs: Malcom & Morpheus

Here's a couple of awesome Character Rigs.

The Malcom Rig, unfortunately I didn't tried... yet. So I don't know much about it. But from what I seen it looks amazing as well. It's been built for the online animation school AnimSchool.

There is a Maya and XSI version.

I only tried Morpheus which is very well built by Josh Burton. Gives you tons of freedom for character design and very user friendly for animation.

There is only a Maya version (that I know of).

If you just started, get something a bit more easier like Bee-Boy.

Blog: New Stuff!!!

Hey peeps!

I've been adding a couple more things too the blog, sites of other artists that I follow. Last time I formated my hard drive, lost a huge list of bookmarks, when I updated firefox (for reasons unknown). So I'm building it bit by bit. If you have anything that you want to add feel free to pm me or comment.
Thanks! :)

Blog: Animation Quality vs. Quantity by Jason Schleifer

I've been reading this for a while now and remembered to share it in here.
A great insight between how to balance Quality and Quantity in animation.
Thanks for the share jason. :)

I leave you the links for all of the parts:

- Animation Quality vs. Quantity – the great debate!

- Animation Quality vs Quantity – learning to focus.

- Animation Quality vs. Quantity – What about Quality?!

- Animation Quality vs Quantity – Intent

- Animation Quality Vs Quantity – Finding the Intent

Blog: Brendan Body

Here's a very interesting explanation about crunch time in an animator's week (and life) by Brendan Body! He talks about the development of a shot he was responsable for in the movie

Blog: Letter Of Note

I came across this letter of Pixar's animator Austin Madison, that encourage us (artists) to persist on finding our creative path. Thank you Austin for the inspiration!

Letter Of Note by Shaun Usher

Blog Post: Flip - Draw your timing

I was reading Cameron Fielding's blog (FLIP) and I found a great tip for helping understand the timing of the shot. He explains it how to do it using Fcheck drawing capabilities. Thanks a lot Cameron :).

Blog: Follow-Thought

This has some very, very good explanations about the principles of animation. It's just crazy the amount of information, technique and work that is explored with a "simple" visual exercise.

Follow-Thought