DEMO REEL | Mason Smigel

00:03 | Bartok - Personal Project

Responsible for all aspects

00:15 | Hex limit - Short film

Responsible for female character model, Character modeling supervisor, All character rigging, Animation pipeline development

00:49 | Bearly - Short film

responsible for all character rigging

Animation pipeline development

01:12 | Shot Sculptor - Animation Polishing tool for Maya

Python script for shot sculpting in maya

Full Breakdown available on Vimeo

Personal and collaborative projects I've worked on

Containers act as a way to add relationships between a container and node without a DAG hierarchy or DG connection. Maya also sometimes...

Building a rig requires more than just the components, it also requires inputs like the model, skeleton, and post-build operations like...

The foundation of the rig is the components. While the system utilizes other scripts and procedures to create the character, components...

Posts about tool development progress and rigging