Rigging Archives - Game Anim

Facial Rigging in Marvel’s Spider-Man

In this 2019 GDC talk, Insomniac Games’ Noah Alzayer (@NoahALzayer) goes over how Insomniac Games’ rigging team created...

Destruction AllStars – Animation Exchange Talks

Both talks below for Lucid Games’ Destruction AllStars were part of the recent 2021 Animation Exchange. Senior animator...

Animating the Main Villain In Marvel’s Spider-Man

In this 2019 GDC talk, Insomniac Games’ Sol Brennan (@wuffles) provides an overview of what went into animating...

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...

Bandai Namco Studios (BNS) Rig

Bandai Namco have generously released their BNS Rig for Maya for free. Based on the one used throughout...

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...

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...

Free Superhero Rigs

Haven’t had a chance to test them but these free superhero rigs from Matthew Lowe look great fun....

What If Any Animation Could Be Played By Any Character?

More amazing work by Alexander Bereznyak. Work in progress tech of Ubisoft Toronto....

E3 Demo & Animation Tech

E3 2015 was easily the slickest and most consistent in quality of all I’ve attended. So many great...

Ubisoft Toronto IK Rig Prototype

Prototype video of Ubisoft Toronto’s IK Rig, an implementation of a runtime rig for characters that uses inverse...

Unveiling Uncharted 4

Last weekend in Las Vegas at Sony’s inaugural Playstation Experience event we unveiled gameplay of Uncharted 4 to a...

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.”...

Epic Games’ Animation And Rigging Toolkit

“This is the toolset Epic Games’ lead technical animator Jeremy Ernst created for [Epic’s] own internal projects.”...

Free Maya Animation Rig From Animation Mentor

“Stewart and Squirrels are professional-quality rigs that are available to the entire Animation Mentor community.”...

Rigging

Facial Rigging in Marvel’s Spider-Man

Destruction AllStars – Animation Exchange Talks

Animating the Main Villain In Marvel’s Spider-Man

Freeform Animation Rigging: Evolving The Animation Pipeline

Bandai Namco Studios (BNS) Rig

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

Maya 2016 Extension 2: Easier Character Creation

Free Superhero Rigs

What If Any Animation Could Be Played By Any Character?

E3 Demo & Animation Tech

Ubisoft Toronto IK Rig Prototype

Unveiling Uncharted 4

Free Animation Rig From Animation Mentor

Epic Games’ Animation And Rigging Toolkit

Free Maya Animation Rig From Animation Mentor

The Cinematic Process Of Marvel’s Spider-Man

Why Gameplay Animators Should Be More Technical

The Animation Of Control

Robust Motion In-Betweening

Local Motion Phases for Learning Multi-Contact Character Movements

The Eyes Have It: An Integrated Eye and Face Model for Photorealistic Facial Animation

Animating Weapons For Battlefield V

Common Mistakes In Game Animation

Updated WoW Male Tauren Model And Animation Comparison