new Volvo

...and more about collisions. This video shows collision detection system of new Volvo. I can only say: it`s perfect! Watch it yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jClxcSBNwcw&feature=related

free mesh collision deformer

There is new Maya plugin for riggers on creativecrash. Free collision deformer (basically with source code, as it`s python script) is definitely something worth checking:

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/animation/c/jlcollisiondeformer

Thanks for sharing this Jan!

background change

enough summer country side road! switching to Phobos, Mars moon.

and who the hell is this guy...?

Sculptris - free sculpting

this is quite cool application as it looks from the demo. You can also paint textures.

This is the product website: http://www.sculptris.com/

DNEG is looking for a rigger

http://dneg.com/jobs/rigger_250.html

nice tutorials page

I was looking for some tutorial and found some nice video here, free:

http://www.cgtutorials.com/

ID software office tour

A quick look inside the legendary game studio id software. Made recently during their production of R@GE, their next first person shooter. Tim Willits definitely enjoys to be showing the visitors around :)

How to draw an owl

MPC on HIRING TOUR

MPC is looking for bunch of various 3d artist positions and will be touring around some Europe cities - this is also good opportunity to get in film vfx if you are from commercials or games:

http://www.moving-picture.com/index.php/london/968-mpc-recruitment-roadshow.html

MPC is getting ready to hit the road for a European tour... We need to hire a host of creative, technical and overall exciting individuals to join our world-leading VFX company.

With dates in Paris, Munich and Turin; MPC’s Recruitment Roadshow will give you an overview of day to day working at MPC as well as the opportunity to see how your career can develop with us.

We really hope to see you there and to find out if you fit the bill to fill one of several positions in the following disciplines:

Compositors
Lighting Artists
DMP and Environment Artists
Character Finishing TDs
FX TDs
Rigging Artists
Texturing Artists
Matchmove TDs

maya python tips

I thought I would share 2 Maya python tips here for more elegant code:

(this code assumes you have namespace of maya.cmds as mc)

# filter objects with some attribute from a selection

# as this doesn`t work...

rigs = mc.ls( '*.rigNode', sl=1, o=1 )

# ...list comprehension can be used

rigs = [ o for o in mc.ls(sl=1) if mc.objExists( o + '.rigNode' ) ]

# example on handling returned NoneType

# test if joint has no child joints, if not is a good test for NoneType return value

if not mc.listRelatives( someJoint, c=1, typ= 'joint' ): print 'joint has no child joints'

# and opposite if statement is good test that return value was not NoneType

childJoints = mc.listRelatives( someJoint, c=1, typ= 'joint' )

if childJoints: print 'child joints:', childJoints