Robbie Reid the Rigger

Digging those clavicle joint placements

Conversely, if you live outside of Australia, there are several studios looking for mid to senior rigging talent here. Mainly in games and animation. They do generally require relocation to work on-site, but most offer visa and moving assistance

If you are a rigging TD (Or tech artist with rigging experience), you live in Australia, and you are currently out of work, I'd love to connect with you! There is a high demand for riggers in Australia at the moment, and I've run out of local people I know to recommend for jobs

We're working on some exciting projects over at #Gameloft Brisbane. If you're an all-star tech artist/rigger, do not hesitate to apply.
Come join a wonderful team working on world-class games!
#gamedev #gamejobs #techart #rigging

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I second that

Oh no! That's truly awful to hear Liz, if I see anything come up I'll send it your way

I use motion paths and uValues to place them along lid curves. So they can be evenly spaced automatically, or I override them and set the specific values I want

Main idea was for animators on film or games to have access to the same features despite project limitations. Things like automated lid follow with eye movement, intuitive controls for quick and detailed posing, blinking via a meet point between the lids, and more

As a freelance rigger, I need to make sure my builds have a lot of flexibility. So I've recently reworked my lid modules to add variable joint counts. Higher joint counts for fidelity and control, lower counts for simplicity and optimization. Or I can test and iterate to find a happy middle ground

A screenshot stating I recently viewed a film "Pizza My Heart" 5 days ago, and that only I can see it

Only I can see this? We'll see about that

Being a freelancer is just being in a constant state of "my resume is out of date"

This is tonight!

Blankets

The return of the king

Banner for networking event. Australian Animation Network. 2025 Melbourne VFX, Gaming and Annimation Industry Social. All industry professionals from any studio welcome! Friday July 25th, 6:30-10:30pm. The Emeral Peacock, Peacock Lounge, 233 Lonsdale St. Free nibbles, raffle prizes

Hey Melbourne folks, the Australian Animation Network industry social is on this Friday. Last year it was mainly artists from the VFX industry in attendance, would be great to see people from games and animation there too. A nice way to make connections across adjacent industries. I'll be there!

Steelcase Leap v2 is a great option

Soulja Boy was a regular poster on the same stick figure animation forum I frequented as a teenager. He shared his early music there, several years before Crank That blew up

Thanks a lot Jess!

Okay so it can work when it wants to. Also shoutout, Glitch are looking for a mid level rigger to join their team. Remote possible!

Wait Taxiride are Australian?! How did I never know that

And now for some colours:

The purest form of a "3D artist"

I once had someone reach out via LinkedIn messages showcasing a catalogue of pipes and poles. I replied "not that kind of rigger" and they immediately blocked me...

A push notification from LinkedIn showing a job ad for scaffolding based rigging, when I have a notification for "character rigging"

Thanks LinkedIn

Ah thanks man! The team really knocked it out of the park

I rigged and skinned all four variations provided by the modelers at Blizzard, with animation being handled by the team at Superseed. The King Krush pet is now available through the Lost City of Un'Goro expansion for Hearthstone!

King Krush is here! I've been working for Superseed Studios, in collaboration with the team at Blizzard, to build the rig for Hearthstone's first pet. He was a fun and unique challenge, balancing rig flexibility and expression controls with low joint and polygon counts

Shaved my beard, got carded at the liquor store. Why yes, please go on about how under 25 I look

Runs well! It strikes me as the kind of game that would suit it. Right now it is defaulting to the trackpad "mouse" layout, a controller layout might be less fiddly. I think the UI updates you guys have talked about will improve the experience too, the tooltips are a bit tiny on the screen

Cozied up on the couch, booted up my Steam Deck and gave the early access build of @summerfallstudios.com 's Malys a go tonight. As someone who has never played a roguelite deckbuilder before, I gotta say, there might be something to this genre...