Pipe Stream

Honestly, I don’t know how I didn’t come up with that one right away. It should have been the very first stream pun I used on this blog. That it took me till the 4th Notional Pipe stream to see the obvious is a regret I’ll take to my grave.

Anyway, last weeks stream was good, but it got pretty esoteric! Take a look if you want to hear me rant about the evils of auto-rigging and Maya’s lack of a built-in method to mirror transform-space blendshapes.

So for this stream, we’re going to take a break from the pirate and go back to basics. I’ll be rigging a different character from scratch with Contour, and this time I’ll be taking it all the way to being a usable rig instead of diverting to subjects like tweak controls and PSDs, useful though those subjects are. This is basically going to be Contour 101 even more then the pirate is, so if you want a sense of what it’s like to rig a character from stem to stern with Contour without Python or diversions into more complex Maya rigging topics, this is the one to watch.

Come join us at 4PM EST at https://youtu.be/cLTwnZrAIGw