Arthur Shapiro

I do Blender Rigging, but sometimes Blender rigs me. Follow me at YT (youtube.com/channel/UCc6-H…) and LinkedIn to stay connected to some new animation characters (mostly free) made for the best software in the World! #b3d #rigging #blender

Oh no, @shapiro_rigs' backpack ate my homework!

@Ammonite_Anim youtube.com/watch?v=61zI4e…

I am so happy that our short movie Koji has won an award at Blender Conference 2024! Congrats to all the @Ammonite_Anim team. By the way it is doing really good on YouTube so have a look at it: youtube.com/watch?v=61zI4e… #blender #BCON24 #shortmovie

Ammie is available on Blender Market! 100% of our earnings will automatically be devolved to the Blender Development Foundation. Or you can download the asset for free from our website. #blender #3dcharacter Music: "Early Riser" Kevin MacLeod, Free Music Archive, License CC BY

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Blender: How to pan/zoom camera like holding \ in Maya? Several forums say it can't be done? blenderartists.org/t/2d-pan-zoom-… #b3d

@chmillout @Ammonite_Anim She just couldn't keep on maintaining her badass attitude anymore and got to her real everyday state of mind :) Thank you!!

We at @Ammonite_Anim created a fully rigged character for #blender and want to share it with you for FREE! Download at ammoniteanimation.com/assets/ It is charged with all the possible features of the CloudRig and is prepared for any type of the animation. We hope you'll enjoy it!!

@bclark_cgchar @sastuvel @Ammonite_Anim Thank you!

@pierrick_picaut Thank you so much Pierrick!

👀Free quality rig from Arthur’s team! Please repost.

The new Mario & Rabbids game has soo cool animations, I saw this secuence and I wanted to try my version of it. Rig by: @shapiro_rigs

💡Koji Art Test 👀 We introduced the characters, now it's time for a sneak peek into the actual animation and what our R&D phase looks like on this project. #characterdesign #animationstudio #martialarts

🎆NEW SHOWREEL DROP! Let us introduce our brand new, shiny, captivating, engaging, refreshing, weird-but-in-a-good-way (we could go on, but you got the gist of it)... 2024 showreel! Have a gander to see what we've been up to 👀 #ammonite #showreel #3danimation #brandnew

@SculptKid That character is made for tge Anination, no skeleton export is supposed

When I rig some non-shearable items (like shoe laces) being deformed along the surface I prefer using chains of bones placed along such structures instead of just copying weights - in sake of better volume and shape preservation. To quickly add the Armature Constraint to all the bones in the chain I use a simple Python script that finds the nearest vertex for each of the bone and converts the vertex weights to the Armature Constraint weights. #blender #b3d #rigging #Python

The geometry, material and everything else is the same for both sides as the right side was symmetrized from the left one. The poses are not fully symmetrical in some parts of the video and this probably doesn't give a good point to properly evaluate the symmetry of the mesh. By "non-shearable" I mean the ability to deform by only one axis (in this particular case - by the lenght of the lace)

@shapiro_rigs Why are shoe laces non-shearable? the right render seems more natural I admit, but is it really because of this fact? perhaps it is because they are of a different material (requiring different deformations). The geo and topo (left/right) are different too, so it is hard to tell.

@AyoadeAyobaba @seynimaiga40902 CloudRig - as a feature set of Rigify - has a built-in option to create switchable parents for the bones

@shapiro_rigs @seynimaiga40902 Sensei @shapiro_rigs how do you create a torso- foot space switch that,ik foot follows the hips rotation like an action figure

You can do it quite fast even without a script: 1) select some edge loop going throught the whole lace 2) convert it to curve 3) add some bone and subdivide it e.g. 100 times 4) add Spline IK constraint to this chain with a curve as a target 5) apply Pose as Rest Pose 6) skin your mesh to this chain (automatic weights work most of the time for such objects)

@shapiro_rigs You also have a script I guess to generate that bone chain guess

@seynimaiga40902 Tutorials need more time and a prepared script to follow while such tips can be made in a couole of hours

@shapiro_rigs Why did you stop doing tutorials on youtube?

@japanesus_ It is a preveiew of a level 2 subdiv. So the density of a real topology is much lower. Also in my rigs I always have sliders to turn off all the smooth deformers, subdiv and shrinkwraps. As for my own specs I work at Asus Zephyrus G16 laptop: i9-13900H, 32 GB RAM, Nvidia4060 6GB

@shapiro_rigs What kind of computer specs would one need, to be able to handle animating a model with a mesh structure this intricate? What kind of GPU would one need?

Mouth Corner Rig Demo. No Shape Keys used (I usually use them only if everything else fails) #blender #rigging

@MaheerTookit I use CloudRig extension of the Rigify but it is extended with my own scripted modules like Spine, Lips and so on