For the Bella Sara project,PEN Productions was asked to create a wing rig for an existing horse. It is always a challenge to create feathers that react well with all the deformations that a wing can achieve.

First shown at Siggraph 2006 in the Advanced Car Rigging Master classes pressented by Paul Neale. This is a dynamic car rig that steers and sticks to the ground as the position is animated.

The rig on this character was created as an uber game rig and shown at GDC 2004. Dynamics drove some of the body parts with stretchy bones solving muscles and joint deformations.

Project: Stacked
Client: 5000 FT Games

5000 FT needed solutions for game rigs and game export utilities to speed up the processes of animation and multi platform exports.

Project: Ogre Facial Rigging
Client: PEN Productions Inc. / CG Academy

These are the facial rigs that are out lined in the 4th Intermediate Rigging DVD from CG Academy.
This technical doc shows some of the bone systems and control interfaces that were used.

Project: Ogre Rigging
Client: PEN Productions Inc.

The Ogre character has been used for lots of testing on new character rigs as well as in the CG Academy Intermediate Rigging DVD series. This character rig out lines a test muscle system that was to produce more realistic skin deformations then what was possible with just bones.

Project: The Night Before Christmas
Client: Elliott Animation

The Night Before Chistmas was an animated childrens TV special. It required some thirty characters and rigs like Santas sleigh that has eight rain deer, a sleigh and santa him self all to animate.

Project: Bull
Client: GP2 Brazil

GP2 is a Brazilian CG company that was contracted to handle a car commercial that needed a real bull to charge through the scene. Because this wasn't possible to do in some shots a CG bull was used and needed to react as realisticaly as possible.

Project: Frank the Fish
Client: Wit Animation

Frank was created for BBC One by Wit Animation and Rigged by PEN Productions Inc. It was unknown what this character would be doing in the commercials so every possible solution had to be implimented in the character rig.

Project: Troll
Client: Autodesk

This character was created for Autodesk to test new features in Max 8 as well as further releases of the software. The model was created by John Chalfant and all rigging was done at PEN Productions by Paul Neale.

Project: Maxwell
Client: Autodesk

This character was created for Autodesk to test new features in Max 8 as well as further releases of the software. The model was created by Erin Nicholson and all rigging was done at PEN Productions by Paul Neale.

Project: Maxine
Client: Autodesk

This character was created for Autodesk to test new features in Max 8 as well as further releases of the software. The model was created by Erin Nicholson and all rigging was done at PEN Productions by Paul Neale.

Project: Sitting Ducks
Client: Kristlin/Elliott Digital, Universal Pictures

Character rig for Bill on season one and two Sittings Ducks. A whole interface for each character was designed to hold all the key controls for hands, face and various other parts of the character. Stretchy arms and legs were added as well as squash and stretch on the body so that animators could get a larger range of motion for the performances.

Project: Zixx Level One
Client: Elliott Animation, Corus Intertainment

Zixx Level One was created as a TV series using a game engin for animation and rendering. This was an experiment to see if there were any advantages to working this way. Allot of custom code was created to allow for the characters to be choreographed inside the game engin using existing cycle libraries. Custom rigs and export utilities were created using Max script and C++ programming was used to inhance the game engin that was used. Thanks to Reevan Mckey for the C++ code that saved us many times over.

Project: Arnold Character testing.
Client: PEN Productions and Hwasup Song

The character model was done by Hwasup Song. It is still being working on and will be getting a full head of hair. The prelininary rig was shown at GDC 2004 and it being updated and enhanced with many new features. Dynamic muscles, hair and cloth will be used to create realism.

Project: Quadruped rig
Client: PEN Productions

This was just a test of a quadruped rig to see what worked best for animation.