Robbie Reid the Rigger
@chowgood
Freelance Senior Rigging TD in Melbourne Australia. Open to work/commissions. (He/him). Has a Simpson's quote for everything robbiereidrigs.com
@mariskahara.bsky.social and I are giving a talk at GCAP in October this year! Join us as we go through the process of building all the NPCs for Mixtape in "The Mixtape Townie Talk (feat. Characters & Rigs)". We're on at 12pm Tuesday on Day 2, don't miss it!
The feathery and friendly Q'onzu is now available in Hearthstone! They are the eighth pet in the game, continuing my rigging work for Superseed Studios in collaboration with the team at Blizzard
Forget London's red telephone boxes, in Australia ours have true culture
Hey #PortfolioDay! I'm Robbie, a freelance rigging TD working in games, film, commercials and more. I specialize in highly bespoke rigs. I'm open to short and long term work, dropping in and out of projects as needed. All my work is 100% human made 🎨 robbiereidrigs.com 📫 robbie@robbiereidrigs.com
Q'onzu, the next pet in Hearthstone, is coming at the end of July! With a bunch of feathers and folding wings, their rig was a nice little technical challenge
When I modify a Maya ASCII file in Notepad to open it in an earlier version of Maya
The squishy, adorable and totally evil C'thun is now available in Hearthstone! They are the seventh pet in the game, continuing my rigging work for Superseed Studios in collaboration with the team at Blizzard.
Haul number three. Each time I seem to be seeking out one particular album, then buying a bunch of other cheap CDs as well. This one was a particularly pop-y one
The variations include a mechanical version as well, "Mecha’Thun"
C'thun is coming to Hearthstone next week! I know I probably say the same thing with each pet release, but the animators really took this one to the next level. You've got to see this squishy guy in action
Haul number two. I'm getting through a backlog of albums from my early 20s that I thought I owned...but turns out I never did. Plus some classics from the 90s and 80s to expand my collection
I've started buying cheap CDs off eBay in efforts to strengthen my collection of physical media. It also gives me the benefit of ripping high quality FLAC files for my DAP. This was my first little haul
Seven years ago, Jorge R. Gutierrez post this about a movie made by an entire team of artists and animators because he didn't like the visual style. Now you may call it petty to remember something from so long ago, but now I get to post this...
Turns out I did get a credit, thanks Siamese! They are one of the few VFX studios in Western Australia. Honestly it's really nice to be in there along with friends I've known since university. Finally working together...if somewhat tangentially...
After working on it behind-the-scenes for more than a year, my overhauled rigging codebase is finally ready for use in productions. I still have a few remaining things to port over, but the majority of the heavy lifting is done. It feels crazy to finally be in this position...
The animators did such a good job turning him into a little scamp
Deathling, the chaotic spawn of the Worldbreaker, is now available in Hearthstone! He's the sixth pet in the game, continuing my rigging work for Superseed Studios in collaboration with the team at Blizzard
Hey #PortfolioDay! I'm Robbie, a freelance rigging TD working in games, film, commercials and beyond. I specialize in highly bespoke rigs. I'm open to short and long term work, dropping in and out of projects as needed 🎨 artstation.com/robbiereid 🌳 linktr.ee/robbiereidrigs 📫 robbie.j.reid@gmail.com
I'm allowed to share BTS on this project, so I can show you! Each tentacle has a ground control and 4 main controls under it. They can move independently, switch to FK space, and scale to tweak the curve shape. There is a chain of FK controls at the end, which can scale to adjust the grip shape