Sept/Oct 2024 - Arts - The rigging that can evolve over time (Jose Antonio Martin Martin - Remedy Entertainment)
Formation créée le 16/01/2024. Dernière mise à jour le 16/05/2024.
Version du programme : 1
Programme de la formation
Learn how rigging helps bring characters alive in AAA game productions. Here we will cover important tools to help rigging navigate production difficulties and help animation bring characters to live. We will cover some good practices about working with other departments and approaches to help streamline the work on rigs.
Objectifs de la formation
- Where rigging stands in game development
- How to interact with other departments and make sure upstream departments deliver rigging the correct models and downstream departments can trust the rigs we deliver
- Tools and approaches that can speed up the rigging process whilst maintaining high fidelity, leaving time for polishing.
Profil des bénéficiaires
- Technical Artists
- Riggers
- Animators
- Modellers
- Production and Coordinators
- Rigging Knowledge – Can be any platform but we’ll talk mostly about Maya
Contenu de la formation
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Introduction to Rigging in Game Development
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Working with Stakeholders
- Working with modelling
- Working with Animation
- Performance Capture
- Developers
- SemVer
- Production tools
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Version Control Systems
- GIT
- Perforce
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The Rig is Not Enough
- The rig on itself is missing features
- How to work with animation on a Baseline Rig
- How to work with animation on Custom Rigs
- How to deal with non-backwards compatible changes on rigs
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Modular Workflow and AutoRigs
- Modular is the approach
- Steps on a Modular Rigging System
- Autorigs
- Other tools
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High Fidelity Digital Doubles
- MetaHuman
- Ziva
Jose Martin is a Character TD with 14+ years of experience, 10+ of them in VFX and 3+ years in the videogame industry working as Senior Rigger at Remedy Entertainment where he worked in the development of Alan Wake 2 as well as contributing to build the new character pipeline. Outside of game development he has been running rigging courses at platforms like CGMA, Vertex School and Domestika for the last 6 years, for students wanting to learn the basics or rigging and face rigging.