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Archive for April, 2009

Walt Stanchfield sketch

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

I just recieved in the post both volumes of Drawn to Life, a brilliantly put together collection of Walt Stanchfield’s Disney drawing class handouts. During art college I printed out and bound the pdfs that Animation Meat used to have of the notes, but it’s really much nicer having them properly published in book form. [...]

Rig update 2 – on to enveloping

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Just for fun, I wanted to see what would happen with just the default envelope weighting applied to the finished mesh, no tweaking at all, no blend shapes. A quick pose later, and here you go: Ok, kinda messy; but I’m happy that (excepting the blown-out areas on the head, chest and elbows) the rig [...]