I was approached by Ragdoll Productions and asked to help out on a new project. They were about to make a dramatic change to their pipeline and begin animating in 3D, using Maya.
What they needed was a series of rigs creating for their new show The Adventures of Abney and Teal, but these rigs weren`t your average type. They wanted to keep the stop motion approach, but attach these frames to a rig in Maya to make them easier to animate. So as the body rotated nothing actually moved in Maya, only the images changed.
As this was a new approach it took lots of outside the box thinking and in collaboration with the team at Ragdoll, we managed to come up with a rig which was intuitive, quick to animate with, could handle thousands of frames and retain the stop motion look when rendered.
On top of this I also created a host of tools to help them in Maya including an animation control window (seen above).
“Antony applied himself totally to build some very usual and creative rigs. With his technical expertise and calm approach, Antony has been unflappable despite the scale and refinements required for the task.” – Steve Dorrance – Animation Supervisor
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