Creature Breakdowns

 
 
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Horse Anatomy

Models: Anto Bond
Puppet: Cara Gately/Tim Mackintosh
Animation: Ross Novak
Skeletal Rig: Tim Mackintosh
Muscle Sim Rig: Tim Mackintosh
Skin Sim Rig: Tim Mackintosh

Software: Maya, Ziva Dynamics, Maya XGen

 
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Elephant Anatomy

Models: Anto Bond
Puppet: Arthur Tersiz/Cara Gately/Tim Mackintosh
Animation: Ross Novak
Skeletal Rig: Tim Mackintosh
Muscle Sim Rig: Tim Mackintosh
Skin Sim Rig: Tim Mackintosh

Software: Maya, Ziva Dynamics, Maya XGen

A Full Breakdown Can be found here

 
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This was produced earlier in the development of the Creature
pipeline at Rising Sun. We had introduced cloth and hair
elements using Nucleus and Yeti but I used this Jaguar project
to introduce Ziva Dynamic’s finite element software for our
muscle, fascia and skin elements. Given it was our first real try as a team at integrating Ziva it came out ok.

Jaguar - Rising Sun Pictures

This is a project that was undertaken at Rising Sun Pictures as a training procedure to build up the creature based workflow and pipeline.
There were quite a few talented artists that contributed to the final image but note-ably in the Creature FX department that I supervised and headed up and directly related departments:
Models: Albert Rodosevic
Puppet: Cara Gately
Animation: Ross Novak
Skeleton Rig: Tim Mackintosh
Muscle Setup: Oleg Magrisso
Skin and Fat setup: Oleg Magrisso/Tim Mackintosh
Look Dev: Hang Li