Thor - Love and Thunder

I was very lucky to help my teammates on this project. Great exposure to Houdini. Thanks for the opportunity!

Mice

I was lucky enough to help on this project, rigging and CFX.

Avengers - Infinity War

Thanks for the opportunity to work on this project with pretty the much the same crew
that worked on Guardians of Galaxy 2. We were responsible for few characters on this
show, to name few, Rocket, Groot etc .. Lots of hard work and lots of fun.
MORE TO COME...

The Jungle Book

Finally got a chance to add this great trailer to my blog. I have spent over a year working
on this project with DD - virtual production. Helping with Rigging in Maya and Motion
Builder, as well as writing tools for our animation team and our pipeline.
MORE TO COME ....

Gardians of Galaxy 2

Very grateful for getting the opportunity to work with Method Studios and its crew of
techAnim members. I have learned so much from these guys. Thanks for the opportunity.
MORE TO COME....

Beauty and Beast - help tools

Disney's - Beauty and the Beast

Had a chance to work on this amazing project, even though we faced some incredible
challenges, we did good! Shout out to all the talented people that have been part of this
project, have learned great deal about my craft. Will miss my comrades, you know
whom I am talking about :):). MORE TO COME.....

Spiderman Bumpers

LG - washing machine commercial

Some 228 simulations, 4 people, 7 weeks. Lots of work, good team to get it done with.
MORE TO COME....

Hotel Transylvania 2

HotelTransylvania2 trailer from Rick on Vimeo.

Had an opportunity to be part of a team working on HT2 project at Sony Imageworks.
Responsible for shot work on various characters hero and background. Super excited
to work with Brian Casper, Gavin Bagger and Chris Logan. The movie looks great!
MORE TO COME....

The Jungle Book - tool samples

The Jungle Book - Digital Domain/Virtual production. Responsible for developing and

writing tools for Motion Builder and Maya. I spent more time writing code in MB.

There are some examples of some of the tools I have written for the show. Was great 

experience and steep learning curve. I appreciate the time on it. Made me understand 

the application and Python in more depth. Also, credit to Johnny Zimmerman from DD

whom I had constant discussion about python. Miss that! :) 

MORE TO COME .....

Maleficent

Maleficent with DD, responsible for Cloth and Hair simulations as well as writing
some intermediate tools for CFX pipeline. I was involved with the little pixies
characters. Learn a ton, worked with amazing talents.
MORE TO COME ....

Had a chance to help few guys on this short film. Rigging and Animation.Think
the story is great, I wish/hope this will succeed in the future and will get pick up
by someone "big". :)
MORE TO COME....

BattleBorn

Another cool little project done at DD, Video game cinematic for BattleBorn video
game. I was responsible for mocap retargeting and rigging elements in this piece.
We had somewhat finished rigs from the client so we used those to put the animation
on the chars and use them throughout the project. Some additional rigging was required
for the flying bugs. The whole piece is in slow motion. Animators spent quiet a bit
of time making sure there is no visible twitching or snapping. Rendered in UDK 4
at HD resolution and lots of elements were added in composting stage in Nuke.
MORE TO COME.....

Lara Croft

Another piece we did for E3 @ DD. I was responsible for cloth along with few of my CFX
buds. Big thanks to Damon for being patient with me while asking a million and one questions
about sim rigs and his way of doing things. You are a river of knowledge my friend. :)
MORE TO COME .....

Shadows of Mordor

Another piece we have done @ DD,  this one was lots of fun, lots of characters and
character FX, cloth, hair etc... I was responsible for rigging along with A.Diamond and
I was lead for the cloth. I like the way the project turned out. There was lot's work
to be done on this. MORE TO COME ....

Reel 2014 - collection some of the projects I have been lucky to be part of. Much
appreciate the opportunity on each and every one of them. I have learned a ton
and hope to continue learning and producing better and better work . MORE TO COME .....

NBA2k14

Another cool little project we have done at DD, pretty small team on this one
I was responsible for developing cloth simulation rigs and some shot work.
MORE TO COME ....

Ryce

Ryce - an awesome cinematic done at DD, this is just a piece of it. I was responsible for the cloth setup and simulations. Building rigs, challenge here was the layer clothing, very tricky with collisions and IP's. Overall a great project, as always lots of fun with guys at DD. :)
MORE TO COME.....

Murdered

Another piece done by DD, I was lucky enough to work with Adrian on this one as well.
Working on mocap setups, rigging secondary props and accessories, I was mainly responsible for the hoody guy.  Good times ! Thanks DD.
MORE TO COME .....

Destiny

Destiny - The law of the jungle trailer - really awesome project to work on, I was responsible for rigging and all cloth simulations for the entire project. DD's awesome pipeline and key people like A. Diamond helped with some more technical challenges. Great story, I think the game is going to be visually awesome. MORE TO COME .....

Deadspace 3

Another cool project I was lucky to be part of. DeadSpace 3 cinematic done @ DD. I was responsible for rigging of the guy and animating some of the shots. The helmet transformation.
I also rigged up the props, from rigging point of view, nothing hard. Some of the parts of the
suit couldn't be just simply skinned because of the nature of the meshes. They had to ride on
top of the surface instead. The helmet animation was pre-animated and then published so animators were able to load the animation on the base rig level to start with. Offset animation
controllers were provided to animate on top of it. We have a sick vRay pipeline @ DD so everything is rendered in vRay. Also, huge "bravo" to vfx guys , Eric and Carl.
MORE TO COME ......

NIKE - HyperWarm

Very fun and cool project Nike hyper warm,  helping vfx guys with 3D aspects of the shots.
FX done in Houdini.
MORE TO COME .....

Medal of honor

EAMOH - more videos of the project. I was responsible for rigging background characters and cloth setups and simulations. Working with Navin Pinto, really awesome cloth guy. I have learned so much from him. Total length about 3 months. Long hours and weekend. We had lots of fun and gained about 30 pounds. :) MORE TO COME........

NBA2K

NBA2k 2013 @ DD - project. Very cool little piece , I was responsible for all the cloth simulations , uniforms , nets, banners. We used nCloth solver. Had lots fun working on this. High five to Tim P. for the crowds. He did an awesome job.  Viva DD. MORE TO COME .......

EyeRig - simpleTool

Eyerig tool for background characters. Simple tool to build eye setups for characters.
We had about 30 background characters to rig. Very simple tool with UI for the artist.
MORE TO COME ......

IBM - All in the clouds

This piece was lots of fun, I was responsible for rigging all the faces it wasn't anything complex just enough to give us enough control to get what we needed for this stylized piece.I also rigged up the props in this spot(Telephone poles,Flowers,All the wires). Psyop rocks !

IBM - ahead of time

Only helped with rigging the conveyor belts in this piece. By the way conveyor belts = headache. All the credits goes to Psyop people mostly my boy John P.He did most of the prop rigging.Fabio the end came out great man. Awesome work guys. MORE TO COME .....

Marvelous Designer Test

A test done in MD for a quick cloth test. Simulation is coming. More to come....

Ally Bank Commercial

Directed by Buck NYC , I was responsible for all the dynamic elements in this piece as well as modeling some of the props and scene assembly. More to come...

ND_test part 01

This is Naughty Dog test for Riggers and TA's. I hope it's okay to post it here.I wanted to keep it simple and flexible, added some code to control the rig,plot the rig to bones. Simple ik/fk for arms spine. Clavicle rotations,added few extra bones for scapula and trapezius muscle to get better skinning. More to come ....

Tool - copyWeightsBasedOnShaders

Tool to prepare character assets for previs or mocap department. Assets with lots of
meshes making the asset heavy and overkill for mocap department. This tool spits out
a single piece of mesh with identical skin weighting, to keep the asset light and clean.
It also maintain the textures of the meshes.
MORE TO COME ......

Character Rig - WIP

WIP - rig based on JS paper. Really awesome and flexible rig

just to mention few : ik/fk , forearm ik/fk, squash and

stretch , I slipped that anywhere I could , spine , arms, legs,

shoulders, neck etc,, correct mirror control setup , global scale of animation
controls,designed for traditional key frame animation.
Model provided by Thaddeus Mitra Marahaj very talented
modeller from R*, www.thechindian.com
MORE TO COME ....

Mocap Test - Homefront

I was responsible for the main 4 characters on Homefront video game. Skeletons,

deformations , rigging , cinematic animation support. This is a simple anim to see

how Boone moves around before importing him into the engine.

Homefront - official trailer

The official trailer of the game. 7 months of hard work. Looks great ! My first AAA title with THQ/Kaos New York City 2010. I was responsible for all 5 main hero characters, rigging , deformations , animation support for all cinematic scenes. Tool development, batch animation tool , roll bone system batch tool. etc. I hope you like it. MORE TO COME....

Bone based - facial poses

Some facial poses and ranges test for one of the Homefront character before
applying animation sequences to him and getting it out into FaceFX module
of Unreal Tournament 3 engine.
MORE TO COME ...

MotionBuilder - Batch Tool

A batch tool for Motion Builder 2010 , tool used to batch animations when animators
finished their part on the files. It recognizes control rigs as well .
Specify a folder with all your work files. Then where you would like to save the plotted
animation. We had sometimes 2 different locations so that's why 2 output paths.
Then you go get a coffee and take a nap.
Again ...HUGE thank you to Andrew for being patient with me to finalize the tool . :)
Best to Kaos and THQ

SkinTool v.01

Skinning tool that helped us to skin characters much faster than regular way Also kept us sane when fishing for requirements like multiple characters multiple LOD's per character, Granular characters etc. We had to make sure only 3 influences affect each vertex so a script was written to keep that always true. Then we added checking tool for making sure that joints included in skinClusters only had the amount and name of joints that the LOD required. Then I added poseLib using simple dagPose command . I also added a sample ROM that could be referenced in on a character during the process when simple poses weren't enough. Thank you Kaos for the opportunity and HUGE thanks to Zhi and Andrew. I look up to you boys....:)

Secondary dynamics - ears,skin - test

Dog facial deformation test. Skinning, some basic rigging, dynamic curves , Soft body used for the test. More to come...

MBX

MBX aka 18 days ... PS's project , duration 18 days ...ironically. The show never took off but fun to work with Jonah ,Charles, Joe Fiore, Paul. Pretty small team. I was the animation supervisor I was responsible for integration between Mobu and Maya but also was involved in TD work(skinning, deformations, lighting etc.) We only had 20 days to produce this. More to come....✔

Clomp - character concept

Character intro , quick model and quick anim to introduce a character to a client. Designed for a TV show, 3-5 year old kids. 😜 More to come ...

Flash - character concept

Character intro , flash modeled , animated , simulated secondary motions, animation , and render in Maya. Composite it in Nuke. Few render layers. motion blur through composite vectors. More to come ... ✔

Simple Cloth sim

Layer nCloth simulation , basic mocap used to get animation on. Fast motions and fast collisions is next text. MORE TO COME ....👌

Face - mocap retarget One to One - test

Facial retarget in Mobu and then out to Maya.Animation tweaks done in Mobu. MORE TO COME ....😒

Pickle - test render

Haven't had the time to finish the facial for this guy. I have the rig ready though..:) I am really showing the secondary motion on his belly and the clean retarget.:) MORE TO COME.....✔

Pickle-setup

Pickle setup with twist systems , simple and parametric muscles used for secondary animation. Easy to setup jiggle. Still problem with global scale and muscles. Local muscle scale must be used. More to come...✔

Balloon - nCloth simulation

Balloon commercial for NYC investor David Lerner, short turn around, deadline 3 days, model, texture, simulation, render all in Maya. Composite in Nuke. More to come...😉

Procedural face rig - simple

These are very simple facial rigs we used for Psyop-IBM project. It was simple
enough to script the whole setup. I made sure the skinning was nice with a nice
fall off to get the basic poses we needed. I also included a animation UI that have
few features , like , selecting controls on left or right side, selecting opposite
control , resetting controls, mirroring controls left-right side. Anything that
would make animating faster for the animators. The build part was written in
MEL and the animation UI and functionality was written in Python.
Guys did really nice job animating these characters. I am a huge fan of Psyop !
I may post a video of how it all worked. MORE TO COME ....

DinoRig

Testing modular system from creatureRigs guys. Awesome system. I love it.
Added few things, which is easy to build on top of the system. Quick skin pass
and animation block out done by my buddy john V.
MORE TO COME......

Update on FaceRig tool v0.21

There is an update on teh face Rig tool. It is still a huge mess
but I am going back to clean and re-write some of the stuff
to improve the whole concept...I am not happy ...Grr.
More to come.