Much like last week included volumetric FK scaling of joints. This week we have volumetric IK scaling of joints with animation...

Got some pretty exciting results this week after experimenting with scale. Maya scaling works in UE4 and Unity since segment scale...

The implementation is a bit more hacky than I would prefer, but it works for now and its easy to add to an existing IK 😊 The reverse IK...

Piper has been updated to support Python 3/Maya 2022. The main caveat for piper was the relative/absolute import statements that are...

Thanks to the work of Chris Lesage and Armin Halac, we have this cool way of animating banking: a dynamic pivot on a track via curves!...

Maya: Create a plane that goes across mesh to represent the cross section. Boolean difference mesh minus plane with the intersection...

Cluck. The render looks significantly better than the mviewer

Finished the initial sculpt for a clucker, now to retopologize, UV, add detail, and texture said clucker. Onto joint orients: Maya' joint...

Maya's ShaderFX has a lot of names for its options: attribute, setting, property, value. Exposed attributes can be changed regularly with...

New concepts, might start sculpting some of these soon. 3D printed Johnny Jupiter, soon I hope to have the rigging system up and...

My friend, Nick Cannon, made some super awesome concepts a while back and I promised him I would sculpt some in 3D. Alas, we have Johnny...

Got to a good checkpoint with piper, still not ready to rig and animate, but I have a good start! Currently capable of generating FK and...

This week's character is Oliver. He wears a magical headband that always flaps in the wind even when there is no wind. So far he is one...

Moo. For piper's rigging system, my goal is to use matrices only in order to practice matrix math. Therefore, here is a script for a...

Jeez thats a long title. I am trying out Jetbrains' CLion after using and enjoying their Rider app. So since CLion uses CMake for build...

Got to finally try my hand out at Marmoset Toolbag. It is a great tool to present 3D art! I ended up refreshing the little of what I knew...

The game's first character, blobber! Blobber went through a lot of programs to get to where he is, and he still has more to go! Ill break...

There are two schools of thought when it comes down to profiling and optimizing games. One thinks it should be done early and often, as...

This week's achievements include bi directional platforms and character movement polish. Bi directional platforms work similarly to how...

This week I have been discovering weaknesses about myself. Not the game. The game is perfect. I am joking. The game is only as good as...