I’ve been diving into rigging in Modo 701 and absolutely loving it. I wanted to share a work in progress rig that I started that takes advantage of many of the new modifiers and other features introduced in 701. Here is an image of the object I’m rigging. It’s a simple cartoon truck that I [...]

I was happily surprised to get another plug in the latest Modcast for some of the recent posts on pushingpoints. Much appreciated. Click here to listen to the latest Modcast: Overseas Bradcast Rating 4.00 out of 5

The other day I created a simple Joystick control that I shared here on the site. The idea was to develop animation joystick controls to be used in all sorts of rigs, but primarily character facial rigs. I dusted off the old Ivan model that I box modeled in Modo years ago and created some [...]

I’ve had to rig and animate iris doors several times over the years and the first couple times I attempted it proved to be quite a challenge. It turns out to be a trivial task when you break it down but isn’t that how it always works? While exploring rigging in Modo, I created this simple [...]

Eleven years ago I developed a simple reverse foot rig that is easy to setup. It’s an alternate setup to how most artists rig feet and I have used for the majority of the productions I have worked on.  You can watch an old video tutorial for how I set this rig up in LightWave below:   [...]