Posts by Mat

You’ve got red on you

Posted by Mat on Aug 31, 2010 | 2 comments

I have been spending the last little while learning Maya, and have just finished up my first Maya rig. You’ll recognize the character as Shaun, from Shaun Of The Dead. Modeling was done by Stephan Perreault – www.stephanperreault.com

Skinning Quickies

Posted by Mat on Aug 24, 2010 | 2 comments

This is a collection of macros for completing quick tasks while skinning. Most of these are just simple tasks found in the modify panel for skin which did not have macros already available, but there are still some custom ones in the mix. I decided to put this together when starting to use my new Wacom tablet for skinning, as it was annoying to always have to go to the UI to accomplish some of these tasks.

Material Manager

Posted by Mat on Aug 5, 2010 | 0 comments

Here is another tool I made back in college which has been useful over the years. The reason I made this tool is because I was annoyed with the limit of only 24 material slots in the material editor, and the inefficiency of getting those materials in and out of the editor. If you wanted to get 24 materials into the material editor, you’d have to go pick them one at a time.

Quick Layer Organizer

Posted by Mat on Aug 4, 2010 | 1 comment

Current Version: v2.0 – August 4, 2010

I made this tool back in college when first learning MAXScript. It was just a good easy script to quickly organize entire scenes based on object and layer naming conventions.

Demo Reel – July 2010

Posted by Mat on Jul 30, 2010 | 2 comments

I have updated my last reel to include characters I rigged and skinned (body only, facial rigs done by Paul Neale) for an Actimel Commercial. I also added in a demo of the mirror rig tool I was working on in spare time a few months back.