>From Chris Bayol who lead the job: Rigging was straight up Maya animation tools. We actually tried to incorporate dynamics in the rigs to give them that wobbly quality, but ended up just animating it all. Cloth was nCloth in Maya. Wires were done in Houdini using the wire solver. Everything rendered in Arnold. What you don't see is that there's an actress wearing a bathrobe pretending to be a puppet. Pretty funny actually to see this rather attractive actress act super goofy. 2D actually painted out the actress and then married the live action robe to the CG puppet. Ultimately, they still had to make the robe in CG in some shots to give more freedom for animation to do whatever they wanted. Just a strong concept, funny writing, and a lot of TLC from the Mill LA.
-CB ........... Any other specific I can pass along to the team. -Lu On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Mr Alexei Godek <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/how-the-mill-made-its-marionettes/ > > > On 16 June 2014 18:25, David Rivera <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I just came across this: >> >> >> DIRECTV - Marionettes "Am I Pretty" TV Spot >> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx2OSU6YdPo> >> [image: image] <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx2OSU6YdPo> >> DIRECTV - Marionettes "Am I Pretty" TV Spot >> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx2OSU6YdPo> >> View on www.youtube.com <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx2OSU6YdPo> >> Preview by Yahoo >> Looks so "lifelike" :) heheh. >> >> Anyone on the list could tell us something about the rigging? >> Cheers. >> >> *David Rivera* >> *3D Compositor/Animator* >> LinkedIN <http://ec.linkedin.com/in/3dcinetv> >> Behance <https://www.behance.net/3dcinetv> >> VFX Reel <https://vimeo.com/70551635> >> > > > > -- > > [email protected] > http://www.xtfx.co.uk/ > >
