Rigging Archives - Game Anim

Freeform Animation Rigging: Evolving The Animation Pipeline

In this 2020 GDC Virtual Talk, Unity's Dave Hunt shares how Unity has implemented Freeform Animation in the Animation Rigging package, enabling Animators to no...

Bandai Namco Studios (BNS) Rig

Bandai Namco have generously released their BNS Rig for Maya for free. Based on the one used throughout their Tekken and Soul Calibur series, the rig is very s...

A Practical Approach To Developing Forward-Facing Rigs, Tools And Pipelines

In this 2018 GDC session, Creative Assembly's Michael Malinowski presents the company's approach to building and utilizing a version-centric plugin architectur...

Maya 2016 Extension 2: Easier Character Creation

Now available in Maya 206 Extension 2, new tools like Quick Rig along with big enhancements to Shape Authoring help make character creation easier than ever. ...

Free Superhero Rigs

Haven't had a chance to test them but these free superhero rigs from Matthew Lowe look great fun. https://vimeo.com/149298046...

What If Any Animation Could Be Played By Any Character?

More amazing work by Alexander Bereznyak. Work in progress tech of Ubisoft Toronto. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DyO_VS_3Gk...

E3 Demo & Animation Tech

E3 2015 was easily the slickest and most consistent in quality of all I've attended. So many great games from large and small developers around the world on all...

Ubisoft Toronto IK Rig Prototype

Prototype video of Ubisoft Toronto's IK Rig, an implementation of a runtime rig for characters that uses inverse kinematics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V...

Unveiling Uncharted 4

Last weekend in Las Vegas at Sony's inaugural Playstation Experience event we unveiled gameplay of Uncharted 4 to a cheering crowd of thousands. It was an amazi...

Free Animation Rig From Animation Mentor

"Squirrels is a fantastic rig for beginner-level animators looking to easily infuse personality and life into a character." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w...

Epic Games’ Animation And Rigging Toolkit

"This is the toolset Epic Games' lead technical animator Jeremy Ernst created for own internal projects." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knbZ_g8Hgvk...