We are such stuff as streams are made on.

We had to take a few months off from streaming, but I’m happy to report that next Tuesday Notional Pipe streams will be back!

This time we’ll be discussing componentized rigging, which is a topic I’ve wanted to talk about for a while. Frequent viewers may recall that I don’t like auto-rigging systems, which add an extra layer to the rig creation process that frequently gums up the works. But you’re obviously not going to build every rig from scratch! Componentized rigging, a concept I first encountered through Raffaele Fragapane’s Cult of Rig, gets you all of the reproducibility of auto-rigging without the ugly rig build and rebuild process.

Contour works exceptionally well with componentized rigging. In fact, the rig components I’ll be building on stream are likely to be shipped with Contour in the future! I hope to see you there.