Eternal W.I.P.'s Blog

It is great that I can finally share with you how we did the CG version of young Arnold Schwarzenegger for Terminator Genisys here at MPC.

I’ve seen tons of articles about it so instead of me explaining it I.m going to post the links to all the sites I’ve come across so far, mainly to make sure I don’t tell too much ;).

First of all here is a featurette on Arnie vs Arnie.

And a Young Arnie Making-Of:

Second, here are the links to some other Lead Artists on the team:
http://www.ashtilley.com/#/alps/
http://www.klausskovbo.com/


And finally some other links with info on how we did it:
http://www.moving-picture.com/news/terminator-genisys-featurette
http://www.cgsociety.org/news/article/702/making-the-young-arnie?edit=true
http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=12737
http://www.3dtotal.com/index_interviews_detailed.php?id=588#.VavYz_lViko
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/terminator-genisys-a-cg-schwarzenegger-806508
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/01/terminator-genisys-building-young-arnold
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/movies/terminator-genisys-the-biggest-bonanza-is-about-a-computer-generated-arnold-schwarzenegger-1015031.html
http://screencrush.com/terminator-genisys-arnold-fight-effects/
http://tv.bamargera.com/terminator-genisys-is-pulling-out-all-the-vfx-tricks-and-it-looks-sick-


And as a bonus, some stills taken from various teasers and trailers.

Hope you enjoyed the movie and our work in it!

Regards,
Jose Martin.

Almost 3 months late but here it goes!

Since late February I’m a Rigger at Framestore-CFC. I’ve been really busy between the new job and London so I haven’t been able to write a decent entry on the blog until now.

It’s been 3 months now and I feel like I can fairly say that so far it’s even better than I expected. I’m working in some really cool projects, that I’m not sure if I can’t talk about them or not, so I won’t do it… for now… 😉  and surrounded by this amazing and at the same time frightening REALLY talented people.

I just hope to take the best I can from this new exciting experience and do my best!

That’s all for now… Jose out…

I finally put together my Rigging Demo Reel.

In it, you’ll find samples of the following:

• Rigging Techniques such as:
  • Stretchy Limbs with Volumetric deformation
  • Reverse Foot
  • Seamless IK/FK Switching
  • Mirror & Flip Controls
  • Pin Controls with Animation Bake
  • Seamless Global/Follow Switching
  • Dynamic Main Pivot with Animation Bake
• Facial Rig
• Game Rig (using Unreal Development Kit)
• Mechanical Rig
• Autorig Tools (Autodesk Maya and Softimage XSI)
• Final Production Samples:
  • Quest School (enne entertainment studios)
  • Escape Hockey (enne entertainment studios)

And here’s the video:

Cheers.

As promised, you can now download the Crash Test Dummy Rig from CreativeCrash.

Here’s the link: http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/crash-test-dummy-rig

Go Nuts!

Cheers.

Long time no see!

It’s been a long time since my last post but I’m been really busy working on some cool stuff. So, with luck, I’ll been updating more constantly the following weeks to show them to you.

The first one, a video to show a rig I’ve been working on bit by bit the last couple of months.

Here’s a list of the features:

– IK/FK Limbs with Stretchy, Volumetric Stretch, Follow, Global Space, reverse foot attributes, etc…

– LOD. Proxy and Skinned with Low, Medium and High smooth levels.

– Completely scalable.

– Seamless IK/FK Switching.

– Mirror and Flip controls. World Space and Root Relative Space.

– Pin controls one to another. Also to extra pin controls that can be created dynamically.

– Bake the animation and delete the pin from pinned controls.

– Seamless Global/Follow Switching.

– Dynamic Main Pivot.

Also, this rig and it’s video are both part of the demo reel I’m working on (coming soon).

And last but not least, within a few days I’ll publish this rig with all this features in http://www.CreativeCrash.com.

And now, the video. Hope you like it.

Cheers.

Behold! I present to you…

Joint Orient Tool – v 1.0

This tool allows to orient the selected joint or the hierarchy according to the selected options (Aim, Up, World Up, etc.)

Features:

– Orient selected joint or the whole joint hierarchy.

– Can select the Aim, Up and World Up axis. (Can check to auto guess the World Up vector).

– Orient the selected joint or joints with World Orientation.

– Orient the joint as another selected object.

– Manual tweak on the three axis.

– Show or hide the Local Rotation Axis on the selected joint or the whole joint hierarchy.

Works fine on the latest version of Maya. Tested on 2009, 2010 and 2011.

The interface had to be tweaked in order for a correct display on Maya 2011, so in the older versions it will look a little bit weird.

Hope you find it useful.

Link:  http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/character/c/maya-joint-orient-tool