Rigging Mentor

We are back on for our live web event, we can take live video and web questions with the really cool Vokle site, so come prepared.

Join us March 31st , 2010 -Wednesday

as Rigging Mentor presents: Inside The Setup Machine 2 with Raf Anzovin.

Click here to RSVP

Raf Anzovin, creator of The Setup Machine 2 for Maya, shares some of the
design philosophy and rigging tricks that went into the popular auto-rigging
package and some useful ways to modify it-in a live webcast.

About Anzovin Studio and The Setup Machine 2 plugin:

Company president Raf Anzovin started drawing when he was 3 and animating when he was 8 and has never looked back. You’ll find him on the animation credits of Blue Sky’s Robots. He was also supervising animator for Hasbro’s G.I.Joe Valor vs. Venom andAction Man: X Missions.The Setup Machine 2 enables Maya users to easily and quickly rig a wide variety of CG characters. With just a few clicks, TSM2 installs a high-quality skeleton and proxy, adds a control rig, and applies basic but accurate skin weighting to human, animal, and creature models, a task that normally takes days.

To find out more about the rig and Anzovin Studios, check out http://www.Anzovin.com

Today Registration emails went out to the very large list of preregistered students.
Josh, Chad and I are very excited at the great response that Rigging Mentor is getting.
We are working on other exciting things for both students and the public that I hope I can announce once all the details are worked out.

To top it off we just hit 200 fans on our Facebook fan page! Thank you every one we really appreciate it.

And as promised Here are the Rigging Mentor 2010 start dates:

Session 1- February 1st
Session 2- April 19th
Session 3 – July 5th
Session 4- September 13th

Each session is 6 weeks long.

Brad created an exclusive video just for Steven Roselles blog post over at Autodesk “The Area”.
Brad talks details about the school, the training and there is a sneak peak into the social learning network that students will use!

Click the link and check out the video, available only on the My Oh Maya! blog.

-> http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/stevenr/to_rig_or_not_to_rig <-

And just a quick mention about the types of traning you can recive from us.

• Custom classes for character rigging and setup (for example skeletons, deformations, face rigging ).
• MotionBuilder training both beginer and advanced.
• Max and Maya transition cross training for artists that switch jobs or have to use both in production.

Thanks for watching and reading.

UPDATE: A big thank you to all who participated , two winners were chosen, a grand prize winner and a runner up (details on Facebook and Twitter).
We also released a short video tech demo of our Rigging Review Tool for Maya.

Today on Twitter and Facebook we are doing a giveaway in celebration of 3December with Autodesk. We will we be posting prize details later today and also keep an eye out for a sneak peak at our Rigging Review Tool for Maya.

If  your in Austin and can get out to the local 3December meeting (register now), Brad and Josh will both be there and you will have one more chance at winning a prize from Rigging Mentor.

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Rigging Mentor is currently conducting private invitation-only training.
Contact us if you would like to be added to the waiting list for the upcoming classes.
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Thank you,
The Rigging Mentor Team