Long Winter

Made some changes to the Long Winter Character Library - Accessible through the BLINK tool. They all pop right into your maya session. 30 Characters - 1 rigging system. Videos | vimeo.com/longwinterstud… Access | wp.me/P4Si8f-45s #Maya3D #Rigging #CharacterAnimation

@joedanimation yeah, it's the fun part that is compelling! This is a great example of using the tech to get the tech out of the way and do what we all came here to do. Enjoy characters and moments. Great stuff!

@Long_Winter Thanks! Yeah, animating 3d in actual 3d space makes a lot of sense. When the tooling is right, it's way faster and way more fun.

Gotta say, it's tons of fun. And it's easy to keep just the poses you want and discard the rest, so this can become starting poses for animation you polish, either in VR or on a desktop PC. What a time to be alive! #aniimate

NEW MAYA TOOL: AXE Proxy v0.2.0 Hover → proxies appear. Click → select real control. No more squinting at tiny curves. X-Ray toggle, thickness slider, named sets, reference-friendly. Clean viewport. Any rig. -> wp.me/P4Si8f-sdz #Maya #Rigging #MayaAnimation

@jjbrambles Really cool stuff Josh. I dig it!

Dragonling - Sleep Sprint Update - Anims - Perch sleep enter/out, fly lean, split yawn from sleepy flight, fixed compression - Shoots weak fireballs now when tired, they cost energy - Arm perch toss improvements - Flight body/head tracking improvements - Design - refuses some orders when exhausted, refined other behavior splits Medium post soon.

FREE MAYA TOOL :: wp.me/P4Si8f-sdz AXE Proxy puts clean, selectable fills over your controls — hover to reveal, click to select, rig completely untouched. Works on any asset. #Maya3D #Rigging #CharacterAnimation #LongWinterStudios

I'm oldschool. Need to flip those frames. Axe Onion - wp.me/P4Si8f-seB

Had a good time rigging MIKS for NEVER FIGHT ALONE. youtube.com/watch?v=gictwC… The anim team at LITTLE ZOO is just wild. #valorant #miks #characteranimation #characterrigging #maya

I wonder if there is a better way to handle Control Rigs? Less curve soup. More animation. AXE Proxy — soft launch. Link in bio. #Maya3D #Rigging #CharacterAnimation #LongWinterStudios

what the hell

Hot Damn! Simple. Reliable. AXE Onion is a beauty. wp.me/P4Si8f-seB #Maya3D #Rigging #CharacterAnimation #LongWinterStudios

These anims done with the Long Winter Library are so good. A few are even my own. It's true - it's the artist not the tools.

It's a dead simple way to access rigs.

Made some changes to the Long Winter Character Library - Accessible through the BLINK tool. They all pop right into your maya session. 30 Characters - 1 rigging system. Videos | vimeo.com/longwinterstud… Access | wp.me/P4Si8f-45s #Maya3D #Rigging #CharacterAnimation

forget the noise - make stuff because making stuff is awesome. Any stuff. Any stuff at all. make it.

@ElLucasF That's a solid question. I've also run into that issue a fair amount - a promise to improve is an arduous disaster in reality. Keep an eye out this week - I am using it now and it's oddly handy to be honest.

@Long_Winter I’ve worked with similar proxy/control rigs before and sometimes they ended up slowing things down rather than helping, so I’d be really curious to test how efficient this one feels.

Tools works on any rig - in conjunction with a control setup. Honestly - It's dope. Give it a go if you're not afraid to party. #Maya3D #Rigging #CharacterAnimation #LongWinterStudios

@sheepboiiii time and pressure

How do we get good at this fucking thing called animating