By Nathan VegdahlHumane Rigging is a new training DVD in the Blender Open Movie Workshop series.With approximately 6 hours of information-packed video, Nathan\'s friendly and humorous style of teaching will provide viewers with a solid education in designing and building user-friendly rigs in Blender 2.6. The viewer will come away not with mere step-by-step knowledge of how to build specific rigs, but rather will gain a solid conceptual background in Blender rigging tools and how to exploit them to build and design their own rigs. Emphasis is placed on designing rigs that are friendly for animators.Rig deformations are touched on enough to get by, but are not covered deeply. They will be covered in-depth in future training material. The focus of this DVD is rig controls.

Learn a production workflow to rigging and enveloping, create custom tools, and time-saving methods for creating game-ready characters rigs. Contains over 6 hours of project-based training for artists learning character rigging for next-generation games.
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The Studio Light Rig for V-Ray is a high quality collection of lights, background cycs, and pre-made lighting rigs that allow you to easily light your scene with realistic soft boxes, octagon soft lights, fluorescents, and more. The A&G Tool Company was founded in 2010 by two leading industry veterans. With a combined 20 plus years of experience in the CG field, they set out to make tools for the artist, by the artist. In the professional CG world, the tools should be based on production experience and never get in the way of creating great imagery. They recognized the need for simple and efficient tools that are production proven and that is exactly what A&G stands for. Top notch tools/utilities for the professional 3ds max user. All of A&G’s tools are production proven and vetted in the trenches of professional CG studios.

In de Blob 2, Comrade Black is back and so is his war on color. Disguised as Papa Blanc, Comrade Black rigs the city's election in order to win and take control of Prisma City with his brainwashing new cult. That is, until de Blob bounces back in full color-spreading force with his revolution to restore color and life back to the city and its residents.

Bomber terrorist's elevator plan backfires, so he rigs a bomb to a LA city bus. The stipulation is: once armed, the bus must stay above 50 mph to keep from exploding. Also if LAPD Officer tries to unload any passengers off, Payne will detonate it. Joe Morton co-stars as Jack's superior, and Jeff Daniels supports Jack helping him try to defuse the bomb.

Creating animation rigs which solve problems, are fun to use, and don't cause nervous breakdowns.