1 month ago (edited) • BrianKouhi
While waiting for our Ultimate Rigging Course public release, you can prepare by completing this [ Mecha Warrior Mini-Course ] that we JUST LAUNCHED! 🤖 https://www.toanimate.ca/blender-mech... Our most affordable course yet! By the end of this mini-course, you'll have a fully rigged, animation-ready Mecha Warrior, built with tools already sitting inside Blender.
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3 months ago • BrianKouhi
We're days away from giving early access to our Kickstarter backers. The rigging course is going to blow your mind!
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5 months ago • BrianKouhi
Annnd we've just hit our 4th STRETCH GOAL, 1-week into the Kickstarter! Students can now expect an additional high-quality character to be added to the course 😎 🟢 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/... 🔒 Next unlock: Live Monthly Sessions with Instructor
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5 months ago • BrianKouhi
WE SMASHED through our Kickstarter goal in just 2-minutes! Thank you everyone who backed us right as we launched ❤️ You won't be disappointed, this course is going to be epic. Especially if we hit most of our stretch-goals! 🟢 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
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7 months ago (edited) • BrianKouhi
Who says you can't make production ready rigs in Blender? Meet Professor Pimbleton. 🏅 Join the waitlist for our upcoming Blender Rigging Course! https://www.toanimate.ca/blender-rigg...
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8 months ago (edited) • BrianKouhi
👀 It's official, after hundreds of messages from our animation students who use our rigs to YouTube comment section and emails, we're finally announcing it! The waitlist for our new Ultimate Rigging Course is now open! 🎉 Join here 👉 https://www.toanimate.ca/blender-rigg... 🏅 Check out the VIP waitlist bonuses. We'll be running the Kickstarter for the course in just a couple of months, keep an eye out for our email updates and information regarding the course. We can't wait for you guys to see what we've been cooking!
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10 months ago • BrianKouhi
Just spent 3hours with 3 YouTube animation legends, talking about animation, the industry, education and AI. Check it out!
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11 months ago • BrianKouhi
🔶 FREE mini-course alert! Learn everything from the basics of Blender's animation tools to animating your first walk & run cycle. 👉 Join here: https://toanimate.ca/blender-challenge 🎓 100% Free 🎬 Learn by actually creating 🎁 Free rigs & PDFs 💪 Structured like a 3-day challenge
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1 year ago (edited) • BrianKouhi
Weight painting lips and eyelids has always been a major pain when it comes to character rigging, so our co-founder Vladimir Mokhov spent a couple of weeks and made a tool to automate the entire thing. 🔶 This will be included as part of a toolkit for our upcoming Ultimate Character Rigging course (in Blender) at TOAnimate.ca 4️⃣ The tool uses 4 points on a loop (corners and upper/lower mid points) and breaks it into quadrants, then distributes weights evenly along the points within the quadrants based on the step count, calculating distance between the points. This makes sure that every point is weighted identically and consistently. The weight generation/distribution is done through geometry nodes, and the rest is with python scripting. The goal of this tool is to make facial rigging way more painless for our students and save them time. 📆 The course is coming later this year, inside it, we'll be covering tool development such as this as well as the entire process of creating movie-quality character rigs. 🚀 Sign up for our newsletter (bottom of the page) to stay updated: https://toanimate.ca/animationtips
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1 year ago (edited) • BrianKouhi
Working on a full video breakdown of how we made "Bob - Awakens" cinematic. Our brand new studio's (TOAnimate.studio) very first paid project. In the video I'll cover what our process was when creating a CG cinematic from scratch for a client, using Blender. Bob - Awakens cinematic: https://youtu.be/tjKp6LeiJ9Y?si=8ZiPN...
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