Modular rigging tools now open source

After a year of releasing the first version of MRT, I've made its full source available for everyone to use. I've been able to find some time aside from my work to make updates to…

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Moving here...

I decided to move away from my last domain, animformed.net, as I noticed some performance issues and had to undertake a lot of maintenance and upgrades from the domain / server provider (not to mention…

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Using Modular rigging tools for Maya

In this section, we will rig a simple character from scratch using modular rigging tools. For this tutorial, I’ll try to explain how to use the tools at the same time, but for more…

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Modular Rigging Tools for Maya v1.0 – Public release

It’s finally here. The first release of Modular Rigging Tools for Maya is available for download. When I wrote the first draft of MRT, I didn’t intend to make it public. I wrote…

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Extending Modular rigging tools by writing custom control classes

Modular rigging tools has a set of built in control rig methods that you can use for rigging joint hierarchies in a character. However, you may need a functionality to apply with a control rig…

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Modular Rigging Tools – Documentation

Here’s a detailed text explaining all the features within Modular Rigging Tools for Maya. It describes the installation under supported operating systems, the user interface, and the modules for rigging characters. Section I -…

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Control rigging with Modular rigging tools for Maya

In the last part, we finished with building all the necessary scene modules for describing the rig, so now we will create a character. What’s going to happen now is that all the information…

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