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“Finally the wonders
of MEL are accessible for people with even a bare minimum
of technical knowledge! Kevin's thorough production experience
and strong educational
background shows through in this excellent series on MEL.
With his witty eloquence and well-structured approach he
makes even the most advanced
concepts and techniques understandable. This set is without
a doubt an invaluable resource for any aspiring TD - and
any artist who is interested
in optimizing and fine-tuning his pipeline .”
- Tom Kluyskens
Senior Technical Director
Sony Pictures Imageworks
Final Rig images courtesy of Radiant Square. Visit Radiant Square at www.radiantsquare.com
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- Instructor:
Kevin MANNENS
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In MEL for Character Animators,
Kevin Mannens develops a wide variety of scripting techniques
designed to speed up your character animation workflow and
make your pipeline more efficient. He explains all scripts
in an in-depth and step-by-step manner, aimed at making advanced
users more productive in their day-to-day tasks. With this
DVD, technically oriented animators will become proficient
in developing project specific tools that will shave days off
each production.
About 9 hours of lecture.
Product Code: KMA02
Efficient Top Down Design
User-Friendly UI
InternalVar
FromNativePath
ColorIndexSliderGrp
StringArrayIntersector
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01:
Introduction and Refresher
02: km_animControlCleanup:
Cleaning up Character Controls
in a Jiffy
03: km_createDummy:
Creating Low-res Objects Based on
Joints to Speed up Animation
04: km_rename: A Hierarchy Renamer
05: km_charControls:
Building a Channel Box Integrated
Character UI
Click here to
view a sample clip from this DVD. Note that while this
clip is 640x480 the actual movie size is 1024x768 with
higher quality compression . View the stills to the right
to see the actual resolution.
Kevin Mannens, a Belgian native, originally pursued an academic career at
the University of Leuven, where he received his MA in philosophy. Due to a
mind-boggling sequence of fortunate events, he regained consciousness and
worked three years at the Alias|Wavefront (AW) European Support Centre as an
application engineer. Traveling around Europe, Kevin worked with and trained
AW clients such as Moving Picture Company, Double Negative, CFC, Cinesite
and many more. Wanting a warmer climate and new professional challenges,
Kevin moved to Manila, in the Philippines, for a job as Technical Director
at ImagineAsia. He hasn’t looked back since and swears by his lifestyle as a
lyrical vagabond, alternating between TD and SCUBA instructor, most recently
in China, Malaysia, Philippines, New Zealand, Taiwan and Thailand. He is
currently Technical Director at The Moving Picture Company in London. His
feature film credits include: 10.000BC and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince
Caspian.
MEL 101: Fundamentals
MEL for Effects Artists |
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