CG Tarian instructor and Dreamworks Animator, Mike Safianoff, talks about sculpting organic appeal in facial expressions.
Category: Production
Acting Reference: Braveheart
I attended a great talk on villains by Ted Ty at CTN and it made me think of this clip from Braveheart. I love how Longshanks is very precise with his movements. He’s hardly moving at all and he doesn’t …
Jackie Chan – How to Do Action Comedy
Another excellent analysis by Tony Zhou
Acting Reference: The Rover
I wanted to show this clip from The Rover and talk a little bit about free rigs. There’s a lot of free animation rigs out there and we see them over and over in animation tests. Often moving & acting …
Ballet Animation Process
Here’s a process video of a body mechanic shot I did. The rig is from the Body Mechanic Mega Pack created by Joe Daniels – its a great deal, 12 rigs for $40. You can check it out HERE

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