Tippet pipeline link

I accidentally found new link to an article about old Tippet Studio pipeline. Until some point it was available and then acm.org moved it under paid articles. So here is my old post edited with new link where you can see how they did it. It`s quite rare material, bit older today as it was used on Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) but it can be an inspiration for some pipeline TDs who yet didn`t have a chance to work for a bigger facility.


http://syntetik.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-thought-i-would-add-this-link-to-some.html

caricature

nice Brad Pitt caricature taken from this website which is some kind of compilation of various caricature artists work.

Rigging class/workshop

I will be at Maxcon 3d conference in Prague on 18. and 19. september having talk about Rigging in film on saturday and making workshop on Deformation setup and simple deformer development in Maya on sunday. All talks are in czech/slovak language only.
For more details and registration go to Maxcon website:
http://maxcon.maxarea.com/registrace.html


Link to workshop information:
http://maxcon.maxarea.com/workshopy.html

demo skinToolsEdit - YouTube

This looks like a nice set of tools for dealing with skinCluster weighting. For tools like this I would say, the more the better!

This tool is licensed, so it needs to be bought. But there are few free scripts

http://docs.osipaentertainment.com/Tools/Free/oeRay

...including simple python wrap deformer plugin (good if you search for some reference on Maya plugin dev).

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/polygon/c/oeray-py

More Jason Osipa tools are here (from Stop Staring book):

http://www.sybex.com/go/stopstaring3

R.U.R., Prague

Prague post production field has new member. R.U.R. (named after czech writer Karel Čapek`s novel) is a post production studio assembled from experienced czech artists, some being ex-members of U.P.P.
As with another fresh Prague facility Cubone, let`s hope they will survive on the market (knock on wood! :)