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“Carlo is the master
at reating robust character rigs that have feature
film quality on a video game budget…he knows the rigs, he knows
animation, and he never stops impressing us with his ability
to blend
this knowledge into amazing results. Frankly, our job would
be
impossible without Carlo. He is a marvel!”
- Marty Davis
Animation Director
Heavy Iron Studios
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In this DVD, character rigger Carlo
Sansonetti demonstrates the rigging process from research to
completion. Carlo covers creating the skeleton and
rigging the spine, arms, hands, legs, head and neck. He discusses the core
concepts of rigging, including joint orientation and understanding rotation
order, as well as some more advanced techniques like stretchy limbs,
forearm twist without volume loss, and connecting attributes with
Hypershade. This DVD is for students who are new to rigging as well as for
professional riggers who are looking for different approaches to rigging
their characters
400 Minutes of Lecture.
Product Code: CSA01
Joint Orientation, Naming and Placement
Animation Controls
Utility Nodes
Stretchy IK Spine
Head and Neck Rigs
Stretchy Legs and Arms
Foot Roll Using Group Nodes
Local vs. World Space
Connecting Attributes with Hypershade
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01. Overview / The Importance of Research
02. Skeleton Creation, Part 1
03. Skeleton Creation, Part 2
04. Iconic Representation
05. The Spine Rig
06. The Arms and Hands, Part 1
07. The Arms and Hands, Part 2
08. The Arms and Hands, Part 3
09. The Legs, Part 1
10. The Legs, Part 2
11. Head and Neck
12. Control Cleanup
Click here to
view a sample clip from this DVD. Note that while this
clip is compressed for the web the actual movie
is high quality video. View the
thumbnails to the right to see higher resolution stills.
An Italian native, Carlo Sansonetti studied Photography at the American
University in Rome. Following his dream, he decided to move to the U.S. to
study and work as a CG artist. In the past eight years Carlo has worked on
several projects as a rigger including Scary Movie 3 and on the National
Geographic documentary Fight Science. More recently he completed work as a
rigger on the next generation game title Ratatouille for Heavy Iron Studios.
In his spare time, Carlo taught at Gnomon School of Visual Effects and
created the award-winning animated short film The Auction. Carlo is
currently working at Lucasfilm Animation on the CG animated series The
Clone Wars.
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