Ashley M Vanchu: Rigger and CG Generalist
The next class is up for my rigging course! In this one, we finish building the head and learn about cloning, duplicating, masking, and different ways of cutting. It’s about twice as long as I wanted to make the videos but I ramble on a … Continue readingRigging Ruby’s Head
We start building Ruby from the top down. … Continue readingRigging Ruby’s Hair
I attempted to recreate something like the basic IK/FK set up I’ve done in Maya before in Toon Boom Harmony. … Continue readingRigging in Harmony: An FK/IK Switch attempt
Showing a couple different ways to join shapes depending on your needs … Continue readingRigging in Harmony: Joining Shapes
I’ve been slowly getting my feet wet and getting back into my old work as I’ve been looking for old projects I would like to update or improve on now that I have a cintiq. It’s pretty awesome going through old work and finding things … Continue readingThrow Back Work
An exercise I did with nCloth on the suggestion of my TA who is a technical director. I modeled and rigged the phone, so the buttons can be keyed if a character was to interact with them. To make the chord I created a cv curve and then extruded … Continue readingnCloth Driven Chord
Finally got this thing rendered out. It took a week to render all the layers. So this is an experiment of nCloth and fluids and particles. Learned a lot from it, mainly how nCloth functions in Maya. I would probably create the robe differently now … Continue readingVarious Experiments
Well, it took me a couple days but I finally got this guy rigged and skinned and with IK controls so I can plug him into my alley and get him moving. I’ll worry about the dynamics later.