Lol - we have finished one movie - and now finished rigging for the second - so quite a lot of practice has been done, and a lot of animator testing too.
S. _____________________________ Sandy Sutherland Technical Supervisor sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za _____________________________ ________________________________ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Peter Agg [peter....@googlemail.com] Sent: 20 June 2012 16:59 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Rigging or Character TD type courses question "Courses are very important of course, but you will learn much more efficiently by spending more time on doing your own rigs (and animating them) than reading too many books" You learn even more by giving them to animators to break them in ways you never imagined. :) On 20 June 2012 15:22, Sandy Sutherland <sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za<mailto:sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za>> wrote: I agree - it is easy to get stuck into a particular methodology, especially since we are stuck out of the mainstream here - beaches are great though, the the mountain - well........ S. _____________________________ Sandy Sutherland Technical Supervisor sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za<mailto:sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za> _____________________________ ________________________________ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com> [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>] on behalf of Eric Thivierge [ethivie...@gmail.com<mailto:ethivie...@gmail.com>] Sent: 20 June 2012 16:15 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: Re: Rigging or Character TD type courses question My point above was that taking a course could give you a different perspective you may not have thought of and also someone to bounce ideas off of that you may not necessarily have at smaller studios. -------------------------------------------- Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com