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Comment on Sophi Azucena Stoehr by Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:23:12 +0000

Thank you!

Comment on Sophi Azucena Stoehr by Curtis Yee

Curtis Yee — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:25:45 +0000

Congrats Matt and Matt’s Wife!

Comment on Asteroids Ship by Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:49:17 +0000

Feel free to post your questions here, or you can me at mattstoehr@gmail.com.

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Comment on Thera-P-Fin, by Maria Sclafani by Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:00:06 +0000

Hi Maria and Pete! Very nice. Can you post a photo of your prototype?

Comment on Baby Girl by Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:58:58 +0000

hi Maria! I’m sure Petie will come around. Thank you for your blessing.

Comment on Training and Tutorials by JakeW

JakeW — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:45:22 +0000

Hey Matt,

I will definitely pick up the book. Thank you for the resource.

Looking back on the tutorial request it does seem a bit excessive in scale. For the sake of giving you projects to work on for your website, however, how about a toned down version?

You start your 3D Rigging and Character Modeling course with the bouncing ball rig and preface the assignment with a logical breakdown of the problems that need to be solved through the rigging process. IE: squash and stretch. This breakdown gave a tremendous amount of direction to those of us approaching it for the first time so we didn’t run off and over-think/over-complicate the solutions.

The face is a much more complicated problem to try and breakdown in this manner than a ball. One that I am not sure many new to 3D, myself included, could adequately identify problems that need to be solved as a first timer. Perhaps you could adapt your bouncing ball rig lecture approach to address the basics of a face (in the 3D environment) in terms of what major problems need to be addressed for a simple rig. Not the rig itself, just what the rigger is hoping to achieve by the end and hand off to the animator so he can achieve very basic animations/expressions. I may be asking for more than I realize again, but here is hoping that this request is a bit more realistic in size and scope.

Comment on Thera-P-Fin, by Maria Sclafani by mariapete

mariapete — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:35:55 +0000

Matt,
I have personally made the two-piece set working prototype, can you believe it? The first VR you produced for us was very handy; I also produced a much better looking one-piece set, as well.
Keep in touch.

Maria and Pete Sclafani

Comment on Baby Girl by mariapete

mariapete — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:26:21 +0000

Consider yourself the luckiest person in the world.Having a baby is a miracle, which will keep on being miraculous as the everyday joys of parenthood go on 24/7 for ever.

It was great to hear from you. We are happy to hear you are happy, and we will pray your family unit…Keep on touch….
We are still working with the patents. Petie (Our 32 -year old son) got married two years ago… no grandchildren yet…Sad

Maria and Pete Sclafani

Comment on Training and Tutorials by Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:15:06 +0000

Hi Jake,

That’s a tough one to cover in a short amount of time. I would rank facial animation setups as full blown training. It’s far beyond tutorial level. Regardless, there is a fantastic book called Stop Staring 2nd Edition by Jason Osipa. It’s a must have for this topic, and I believe he does a fantastic job teaching the subject. And, someday, I’ll have my course “3D Head” completed and running in the near future semesters. I’ll be using Jason Osipa’s literature in that course. I can do small setups in the meantime. I’m sure I can create facial animation tutorial quickies.

Matthew.