The Puppeteer Lounge have run some pretty good webinars in the past, helping people up their skills, with scripting, animation and rigging.
tips and trickery that Andrew has to share with us on using SHAPES tool
There is a new webinar coming up that you might find interesting – a SHAPES Blend Shape Editor webinar with Andrew Silke.
Andrew will show the inside secrets for setting up corrective blend shapes in Maya using the Brave Rabbit’s SHAPES tool.
You can learn how to set up an expressive facial rig and create anatomically correct articulation for you character’s body.
The SHAPES Blend Shape Editor Webinar is set to cover:
- Set Up
- Creating Shapes
- Shapes Brush
- Modifying/Tweaking Existing Shapes
- Mirroring Workflow
- Auto creating SDKs
- Creating Combos
- Demo of a fairly finished face rig setup with shapes
- Managing SHAPES with a complex setup
- SHAPES Paint Weights
- Auto creating Pose Space Deformers and Shapes for body
- Using shapes for Animation Finaling
- Demo of the upcoming SHAPES 2.0
Details for the SHAPES Webinar Hosted by Andrew Silke
About Andrew Silke: Andrew worked from small games studios to the biggest post effects houses in the world including Weta, Framestore and Animal Logic. Andrew’s credits include many movies such as Gravity, Avatar, Harry Potter and Happy Feet. Andrew now teaches 3D classes in Sydney (From modeling to rigging to animation to lighting and compositing) atCreate3dCharacters.com
Andrew was the first to join the initial SHAPES beta. Andrew together with Ingo Clemens from brave rabbit have been collaborating with each other towards the development of SHAPES, the two of them infecting each other with great ideas!
The SHAPES Webinar will run about 2.0 hours and cost $75. SHAPES Webinar Hosted by Andrew Silke starts Sunday, September 21, 2014 at 7:00:00 PM (AEST “Sydney” – GMT + 10 hours) Check the Puppeteer Lounge page for more information on the SHAPES Webinar.
