Updated Reel - Sizzlin Houston Summer Edition!
Update of the ole' demo reel. Some new work from the last year and a test of ole' Morpheus posted a couple of weeks ago. What else has been happening.... Next month I'm gonna be doing a demo at the...
View ArticleMorphy! By a noodle....
Morphy Tip of the Month: If you get some funky creasing in the face with a customization option don't hesitate to select the offending section and try a 'smooth skin weights' option or just manually...
View ArticleA Week in the Life Between Gigs...
Some folks wonder what freelancers do between gigs. Well I can't speak for them but for me more than a few days without a project to work on is a painful thing - I just really enjoy making stuff. As...
View ArticleIs it really October already....
Morphy Tip of the Month - If you hit render and all you see is black. You're most likely either 1) not using mentalRay or 2) don't have the textures connected Been a bit busy, started another project...
View ArticleOnly one month to 2012....
Where does the time go....seriously. Morphy Tip of the Month: Please, please read the docs or check the threads on 11 second club. Most of the emailed questions are a bit... repetitive:) This month in...
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It's gui in the middle...
My first GUI! So, I've been learning python for the last year and have piles of tools I could use...when my brain remembered which module they were in and what the call arguments were. Handy, I know....
View ArticleMerry (Insert your winter holiday of choice, but for me...) Christmas!
Morphy tip of the month: If you're having slow playback, try commenting out the squash stretch expression. How do you do that? Open the animation expression editor and find the morphy squash stretch...
View ArticleHappy New Year. Hope it's not our last!
Sorry for the gibe, keeping seeing blurbs about Mayan prophecies. Hope everyone had a good New Year celebration. My wife and I brought it in playing games with neighbors and eating pancakes and bacon...
View ArticleHappy Birthday me, you all get a present!
I turn the big 34 in a couple weeks. Exciting, no? Back to the important bit about a present to the internets. After a year of getting many inquiries and frankly just not knowing how I wanted to handle...
View ArticleDo I really need that....?
Ah, the therapeutic process of geeks everywhere. Getting a new machine setup is both annoying and refreshing. One such part of the process is thinking through the apps you had and culling out the...
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CG Monks!
I'm happy to announce the formation of CG Monks a new venture with some good friends through which we hope to make cool tools, rigs, and other goodies available to the cg internets. Some of our goals...
View ArticleIf you've not been checking....
There's been a whole lot going on over at CG Monks. The tools are coming along and we've gotten some fantastic contributors to the tool set. Here's this weeks vid from there as a way of enticing some...
View ArticleFace Rigging Webinar Next week...
Doin a webinar next week for Faceware if anyone would like to hear my ramblings on facial rigging. Planning on covering blendshape and joint based rigging as well as a bunch of tools from CG Monks as...
View ArticleA snapping update!
Latest update on CG Monks/cgMonks/cg.Monks (not sure how we wanna put it in text yet:). Lots of updates in the post. The webinar went well last week and I'll post a link once they get the vid up for...
View ArticlecgmWeekly is back!
Hope everyone is doing well. Finished up a gig and back on cgMonks workin on tools. They're in open beta now so hop over and download em if you like:) In other news... Prometheus - beautiful film with...
View ArticleHappy Independence Day!
If you're not from the US, you can celebrate independence from Maya's frustrating attribute editing tools with our latest tool! Hope you enjoy and if you play with pop bottle rockets, after you light...
View ArticleMorpheus Needs help...
Or rather I do in helping to plan next steps that involve ole'Morphy. If you're a fan, please take a moment to fill our a survey to assist or maniacal plan making:)...
View ArticleEpic Mickey Work...
Well, it's finally up. At least a good chunk of it... I had the pleasure of working on this project last fall and a chunk of this spring. Last fall I animated a segment (all of which is in this vid)....
View ArticleMorpheus 2.0 Kickstarter Preannouncement!
First off, thank you for all the great uses so many of you have put Morpheus (and Squirrely) to. You've pushed the rig in ways I hadn't anticipated and it's so exciting to see it. This September, CG...
View ArticleCG Monks Tag Anim WIP
Been playng around with a tag animation for CG Monks. We're probably gonna do the fx in maya and do 2d characters for the tag. Gonna try go get it done this week. Hope everyone is well!
View ArticleMorpheus Rig 2.0 Kickstarter Teaser
It's about time for an update, no? We're super excited to get this ball rolling.
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Morpheus Rig 2.0 Kickstarter...the game has begun!
CLICK ME! We're live, internets! You have 30 days to make this project a go. So if you like Morpheus Rig or CG Monks and wanna see more, now is your chance! Thank you for all your support.
View ArticleFAQ - I graduated, no job, now what?
So, it's about 6 months or so after some folks have graduated and I've gotten a few emails on the subject and actually a few asking this very thing as well at a users group meeting in Austin last week...
View ArticleHappy February
First up, here's a teaser for a film my friend Hugo is working on : In other news, there some scary stuff going on right now with my pals in the vfx and film industries, been thinking about you all....
View ArticleYes, the internet just might be a mind numbing ray of distraction.
So, lately I've been thinking that perhaps those studies that say the internet is rewiring us aren't as ridiculous as I used to think. I have no idea how much time I've lost checking email, new sites,...
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