Moray Eel 3D rigged model

[thegriffin88]

Damn that's boss.

[Hanyou1993]

I'm just woundering.. do you have a tutorial of how to do the rigin... or what it's called.. to make it moves like it dose here?XD without having to use keyframes?

[6943cahill]

beautiful! I noticed amplitude and wavelength. Was this done by attaching a sine wave deformer to the rig? and then the rig itself was a spline rig? Cool stuff! love the lighting!

[squirc]

@6943cahill you got it, that's exactly how I did it!  thanks for the comment :)

[scooterskittles]

Wow.

[JosePablo24]

amazing!! this kind of stuff really motivates me to take visual effects (animating, modeling, blah... etc) as a career ^^

[goranification]

Wow, amazing rigging, did you use any script? A tutorial would be perfect, Hablas español? yo si 8^)

[squirc]

@goranification Thanks! I didn't use any scripts, but I did use lots of expressions in Maya. Ademas, si, hablo español :) I don't think I'll make a tutorial because If I were to do it again, I wouldn't do it this way.

[yoitsjeremy]

what program are you using????????

[cloudsurfer007]

This is a good model. I am a diver. When you see these in the ocean, they snap more, and hide in rocks. They look very much like snakes on land. I have done some computer rigged art, this is well conceived project.

[kakabukkake0]

awesome work man this is perfect. I would freaking love to animate that rig!

[luchiostudio]

Did you use normal mapping?

[squirc]

@luchiostudio yep!

[HawxTeamDelta]

your so awesome!!

[luke046]

great model! I like the secondary animation

[blindkid2]

i gotta say, that is one mighty goddamn fine rig

[jweinrub]

You need to make a tutorial on how to make rigs like that man! Great job on the project!

[SomniumDS]

that is sweet!... how'd u get the fins to be dynamic?... there's actually a whole bunch of questions i wanna ask with rigging but I'll just ask the one i wanna know the most :D

[squirc]

@SomniumDS Thanks! The fins are controled by a chain of dynamic hair curves. The rest is top secret :)

[ThatGuy321654987]

@squirc how did you bind the curves to model?

is it like a deformer

[Brutallll]

te quedo chingon, muchas felicidades

[squirc]

@Brutallll gracias de verdad. Voy a subir mucho mas videos pronto

[Armanienius]

Looks great. Sell it to Hollywood!

[lilurik]

NIce good job

[Xyos212]

Wow Amazing animation :D

[3DSource]

Awesome !

There's only one thing that could have made it even better, at the start if it would have closed his mouth :)

[SkenaNbagen]

nice work !

[RossHildick3D]

excellent.

[Serenity4art]

Wow very nice Rig, it looks awesome.

[sergiuung]

That looks amazing. Good job

[Urhed]

That is awesome! I'm glad that you are back :)

[wct75ccad]

errr, Hi, in 1st place: GREAT WORK!

in 2nd place: can'u make a tutorial about it? thx..

in 3rd place: Sry about my english, is bad..., i'm from brasil and I never get some course of english...

again, Thx lot...

[dariusfol]

good job!

[iank240]

Really nice work.

[rustik13]

BRAVO!

[yoneverknow123]

nice work ryan!

[Tallacus]

I love that Character UI

[kcin228]

Nice work man. Did you use an N-CLoth effect for the fins to get them to wave like that? Very cool use of the Nulls as well.

[squirc]

@kcin228 Thanks, Kcin. I used dynamic hair curves for the fins. If I were to do it over again, I just might use ncloth instead, tho.

[kcin228]

@squirc lol everytime I try something new I find fault with it. And realize what I have should have done. Even though at the point in time I am racking my brain. I would love to see a series with the Normals characters you did. Although being in Digital Animation and VIsual Effects student myself I recognize the render times that go into these things. Awesome work, you cease to amaze me. I hope you are finding work.