Technical Art Reel (2018)

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1. Bigshot Bruno - 0:04-0:18
Modeling, texturing, rigging, lighting, rendering
Maya, Zbrush, Substance Painter, MentalRay
Character bust and facial rigging setup designed for ease of use for initial posing, along with layers of unlocked fine controls for complex shaping.
vimeo.com/alexkmann/bigshotrigdemo
2. Frog - Ribbon Rig - 0:18-0:41
Modeling, texturing, rigging
Maya, Substance Painter
A ribbon rig exploring ways to facilitate comprehensive control over each joint length, allowing artists to easily and intuitively adjust and animate many aspects of a control’s behavior, bend control influence area and interpolation, squash/stretch, and twist, while also granting the artist a wealth of other options including sine wave manipulation, random noise, and joint distribution. Created entirely with native Maya nodes.
vimeo.com/alexkmann/ribbon
3. Rig Control Interface Script - 0:41-0:48
Modeling, rigging, scripting
Maya, MEL
A model and facial rig utilizing a system of mesh controls, which allow animators to deform characters with very little visual clutter, and to select controls without requiring pixel-perfect accuracy. The script can be applied to any finished rig and is a non-destructive system, allowing animators to switch back to the original curve controls if desired. Computationally fast - no wrap deformers.
vimeo.com/alexkmann/kindredextras
4. Shelf-Building Rig - 0:48-1:00
Rigging, scripting, modeling, texturing, lighting, rendering
Maya, MASH, MEL, Arnold
An outside-the-box example of the procedural animation toolset in Maya to interactively create modeling assets.
vimeo.com/alexkmann/library
5. Auto-rig - 1:00-1:16
Scripting, rigging
Maya, Python, PyMel
An object-oriented auto-rigging script with 15,000 lines of code (so far) written in PyMel. Easily implement and reuse modular ‘fit rigs’ for initial joint placement and to interactively view rig settings. Automatically creates and connects result rigs, drastically increasing quality and turnaround time.
vimeo.com/alexkmann/autorig
6. WestConnex - Connecting Sydney - 1:16-1:58
Scripting, rigging
Maya, Python, PyMel, Mixamo
Rigged all characters, vehicles, and road for television commercial project for WestConnex with Buck Design. Implemented motion capture baking script, as well as many other features for easy or automatic animation, including magnitude-directed limb bending, and automatic tire rotation.
vimeo.com/alexkmann/westConnex
7. Holden Sevens - 1:58-2:00
Rigging
Maya
Another example of bendy rig setup, used for Holden vehicles commercial animation. Used auto-rigging framework for both unlucky man and mischievous cat.
8. Difflam - 2:00-2:04
Maya
Created lozenge, bacteria, head, and throat rigs for short animation spot for Difflam.
vimeo.com/alexkmann/difflam
9. Orbits Soft Chews - 2:04-2:10
Rigging
Maya
Rigged costumes and props for two commercial spots for Orbits Soft Chews.
vimeo.com/alexkmann/orbitsLion
vimeo.com/alexkmann/orbitsBench
10. Happy Holidays from Ancestry - 2:10-2:17
Rigging
Maya
Rigged multiple boxes and ribbons for holiday spot for Ancestry.
11. Tinder - Invention of Together - 2:17-2:28
Rigging, Animation
Maya
Cloth, hair, props, and yak rigging for Tinder, as well as on-site animation cleanup and assistance.
Song is Skin to Bone, by The Jungle Giants

[@太阳神-e5i]

good

[@romaintruchard2939]

Great reel ! I really like the rigging part : some very interesting things ! Keep it up :)

[@gibranjalil9695]

Awesome!

[@dennissabrievski4543]

I really love it man! Heads off to your work. I was wondering what auto rig set are you using in your reel ? it doesn’t look like the Advanced skeleton. I also like the animation you are responsible for animations too ?

[@bosspanda485]

Thanks! It's built with my own rigging tools, but the animation was done by a bunch of other talented people. It's more to show that it was production-ready

[@dennissabrievski4543]

Alex Mann Thank you very much for taking time out of your busy schedule to write me back. You are the guru of rigging! I’m just an animator. I love my craft. They gave me an animation test this week for the job. They also wanted me to rig. For the first time, I rigged the character it seemed a lot of fun to do it through auto rig sets. facial and eyes stuff are more complex, however. I just was wondering what auto rig was I see it’s your own program. If I get this job. I’m considering to learn the basics of rigging in the future.