The ManCandy FAQ Character Rigging and Animation in Blender DVD9-DaD

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  The.ManCandy.FAQ.Character.Rigging.and.Animation.in.Blender.DVD9-DaD

  Release Info:

  Supplier........DaD
  Packager........BACARDiBOY
  Release Date....03/07/2008
  Type............GFX Training
  OS..............WinXX
  Format..........ISO
  Size............1DVD dadtmcf.partXX.rar 41*100mb

  The 3D character ManCandy has been created by Bassam Kurdali for testing and
  teaching animation techniques. Over the past year it has become a wonderfully
  flexible character, deserving to become the first of the titles in the Open
  Movie Workshop series.

  The ManCandy FAQ is a collection of animations and video tutorials for
  rigging and animating with ManCandy. The animations are in question and
  answer format  (hence the title) and are intended to be a fun way of
  documenting the rig.

  The video tutorials are a little more serious, and are divided into animation
  and rigging topics. Animation tutorials cover setting up files and linking,
  animating an arm motion in FK, doing a cartoony take and walkcycles. Rigging
  topics are arranged according to the parts of ManCandy's body - there are
  sections for the hands, torso, face, legs, etc.

  While this is not a basic rigging tutorial (viewers should have a basic
  knowledge of the Blender interface and the bare minimum of armatures and
  animation) there is a basics/primer tutorial that quickly goes through
  blender rigging and animation features, such as lattices, armatures, weight
  painting, etc.

  There is also a short bonus rigging breakdown tutorial on a simple surprise
  character (not ManCandy.)

  The information presented overall captures most of the Elephants Dream
  production rigs with many improvements that were aimed at assisting the
  Plumiferos project.

  The DVD includes an HTML interface that itself contains some written
  tutorial/reference material, a collection of videos (Animations in 640x480
  resolution, Tutorials in 1024x768 resolution), the ManCandy 2.0 blend file,
  the mystery character blend file, all the blend files for the animations on
  the DVDs, and of course some helper blend files for the tutorials.

  Licensing details: Video and animation content is Creative Commons licensed
  (similar to Elephants Dream) while ManCandy himself is public domain
  (but treat him with respect!)

  Versioning details: The tutorials (and ManCandy) are designed to work with
  Blender 2.44 / 2.45 (the current stable version of blender). ManCandy is
  constantly updated to work with future versions of Blender (and take
  advantage of new features) and the concepts and techniques taught here should
  remain valid for the foreseeable future.

  About the author: Bassam Kurdali - living in Amherst, Massachusettes, USA
  was director and lead rigger/animator of Elephants Dream, the first 3D Open
  Movie project by the Blender Foundation. Bassam is currently working as
  freelancer on various animation projects.

  http://www.blender3d.org/e-shop/product_info.ph...ducts_id=99

  Installation:

  Unrar, burn or mount.

  Greets:

  Tits always look better in a pink sweater.

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