Taking a minute to test out video blogging from my iPhone and to say what an awesome event Derby Dolls puts on. Honestly, I can’t remember when I had that much fun! If you’ve been putting it off you really need to get diwn there ASAP befor they lose their hot streak! Fear not, they are ranked third in their division and they winning against the Brawlers who were 2nd in the division means the Fight Crew could be ranked higher now. It was a close and exciting match but the LADD Fight Crew pulled a victory in the end with 100 points. Very good stuff indeed, and who doesn’t want to go see roller derby, a crap load of ladies (a lot of whom look similar to the suicide girls) brawling on roller skates going 90 miles an hour around a claustrophobically short track!?

Fight Crew sheer jubilation, I mean LOOK at her.

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Watch the first trailer here!

People are buzzing this morning about the new trailer released today from Rockstar Games for LA Noire (not sure where the extra “e” comes from), a game that’s exactly what it sounds like, a film “noir-esque” detective drama/police drama and other LA film noir movies like The Big Sleep,Double Indemnity, Chinatown, and LA Confidential.

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Rigging Dojo Interviews Jan Berger Creator of MCS

Previously I was baffled by MCS, the modular character system used for rigging and animating, and now one of my favorite rigging resources online, Rigging Dojo, is actually having a live online discussion via Vokle.com with the creator Jan Berger!  This could be the next biggest thing to hit the rigging world in a long time, and it’s gonna be incorporated into Autodesk at some point.  I’ll be tuning into the episode that takes an under the hood look at this technology for sure.

Modular Character System by Jan Berger

Suntoucher Labs

modular rigging tools system

http://vokle.com/lineups/6874-modular-character-system-mcs-under-the-hood-with-jan-from-suntoucher-labs

 

zooTools make character rigging a breeeze!

Hamish McKenzie (macaroniKazoo) has put out a new release of his tools, now written in Python as well as good ‘ol Mel–YAY!  This is big news since it’s been a whole year since another version has been publicly released!  It’s good to know that someone out there is still enthusiastic about sharing with the online community what he’s learned and developed over a long period of time.  I hope to bring something as useful to the proverbial table one day.  Guess I better keep hitting the books and learn from great the great ones!  I feel like such a noob in comparison and it’ll take years to catch up with these guys.

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