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2008 Reel

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Whoops, I forgot to post this little guy at the end of the last year!
It’s been ready for some time already. Expect a new reel with newer stuff soon.
Download my Character TD Reel for the year of 2008 here:
Richard Maegaki’s 2008 Rigging Reel
It’s about 28mb in size and features some professional and personal […]

StickyIt - Automatic Sticky Lips solution script

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Hey everyone! Long time no see!
Sorry about that, I’ve been really busy lately with personal stuff. To be more specific, about two months ago I started dating a really, really nice girl! And I must say, that does change the perspective of everything! It’s a very renewing and profound experience to get to know someone […]

Paint Skin Weights Tool Filter

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Hey all, did you know it’s very easy to change Maya’s user interface?
It’s everything written in MEL (there’s a ton of scripts) and you can find them in a folder that is located somewhere like this: MAYADIR\scripts\others
As a character rigger, I usually do the paint bind skin process a LOT. And since I’m not a […]

Maya Custom Manipulator/Locator

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

It’s really simple and quick to make your own nodes and plugins using python in Maya!
Here’s my own locator and manipulator, I just modified the existing footPrintManip scripted plugin that comes in the Maya Devkit. Another advantage of a scripted plugin is that you don’t need to recompile it when using in different Maya versions.
The […]

2008 Teaser!

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Hey all! Long time no see!
I’ve been really busy lately - mainly doing nCloth and Maya Hair simulation for work… the blog was a little bit abandoned so I decided to compile some works I did these last months with some cool music from Tekken - my favorite fighting game.
Did I ever […]

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