Matthew L. Stoehr
Artist and Technical Artist
mattstoehr@gmail.com

Professor of Art New Media
American River College
4700 College Oak Dr.
Sacramento, CA 95841
stoehrm@arc.losrios.edu

Since 2002, Matthew has been teaching at American River College in Sacramento, California, and has developed the Art New Media Animation curriculum. In 2002, Matthew received his Master of Fine Arts from Ohio University of Athens, Ohio, and in 1999 his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the SUNY Fredonia of Fredonia, New York. In both degree programs Matthew focused on sculpture with a minors in ceramics, drawing, and digital audio. It was in his Master's program where Matthew discovered digital sculpting and digital audio, and combined his physical and digital work. Eventually, he fell in love with the digital art form, and since 2002, has dedicated himself to the art of digital sculpting and the design of motion for production animation.

Form and Space is a place for the public to view his concepts and art, and download turtorials and tools designed for 3d production.

These videos are from the course Art New Media 421, 3D Character Modeling and Rigging, at American River College in Sacramento, California. They are the first three weeks of rigging training. I cover the theory and discuss the setup more thoroughly in the classroom, but the following 40 minutes will get you up and running. I hope you can learn from these very few videos. Please, e-mail me if you have questions or comments.

The project directory has all the files you need. Use the Project Manager to add the project to XSI. Then you're good to go!

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March 2008