For the most part, the nose, eyes, chin, chest, arms, and legs should line up across all the views.
One of the most important aspects for this reference image is for the views to make the character look as if it is turning in 3d. In order to build a good rig, you need to have a good turnaround reference image to build from, and Vanessa did a great job. The goal was to make something we could use to teach people how to rig in an introductory lesson, so that informed some of my decisions. Matt Watts: In approaching Vanessa’s rig, it was really important for me to make it fit with the Toon Boom Training Courses. Mike Schnier: How did you approach Vanessa Bouchard’s design for the Punk rig? Read their discussion below, along with previews of the Punk rig from the new training courses. Watts also discusses his day-to-day experience working as a rigging artist in tv animation, as well as his advice for aspiring creators who want to work in the industry. He recently joined the team at Digital Gravy.Ĭartoon Brew is pleased to present the following conversation between Mike Schnier and Matt Watts about the care and craft that went into adapting Vanessa Bouchard’s Punk character into a cutout rig for the company’s new training courses. Matt is an accomplished self-taught animator and rigging artist based out of Utah, who not only has a decade of freelance work under his belt but also came recommended by his colleagues from his tv production work in Canada. Remote training is now also available for Cut-Out Animation, Paperless Animation, Compositing, and Storyboard Art.Īmong the professionals Toon Boom approached to develop assets for its new courses is Matt Watts. Interested in building your career in animation? The new Toon Boom Training Courses on Rigging are intended for artists who are new to the craft and want to learn the fundamentals of constructing character rigs for studio productions, under the guidance of a remote instructor.
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