Many congratulations to Escape Studios student Rianna Patel who came 33rd out of 241 Entries in the November 2022 11 Second Club Competition. The 11 Second Club is a monthly character animation competition in which aspiring animators compete to win prizes and get their work noticed. Animators from all over the world participate, animating a character speaking a line of dialogue, which is provided on the first day of every month by the club.
Escape Studios in the 11 Second Club
To see past successes by Escape Studios students in the 11 Second Club, see the links below:
Meet "Thep"
Rianna's shot uses the free "Thep" rig; he's fun and cartoony and you can get a great performance out of him. You can find him here for free download at the Squiggly Rigs official site.
Escape Studios in the 11 Second Club
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| Rianna Patel |
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Rianna's shot uses the free "Thep" rig; he's fun and cartoony and you can get a great performance out of him. You can find him here for free download at the Squiggly Rigs official site.
Thep is the first character made with the "Squiggly rig system". Built to allow plenty of flexibility and exaggeration, Thep comes equipped with some useful features to allow him to act as cartoony as possible without losing appeal.
Thep is a good choice for students starting on acting and lipsync; he works well with a cartoony voice, such as one from the Sesame Street wav archive.
Consider Thep for acting and pantomime shots, or for short dialogue scenes; he has good facial expressions and a wide variety of mouth shapes.
Thep rig Features
The control to move the clavicle is a pole vector control in front of the shoulder.- Full body rig with a non-switch IK/FK spine system
- Bendy arms and legs
- Smear control for hands and feet
- Hands UI with fingers pose presets
- Full facial rig
- Head squash and stretch
- Detachable head with a space switcher – Neck/World
- Personality switcher for the eyes – Normal/Evil
- Personality switcher for the teeth – Normal/Evil
- Extra set of legs with visibility and taper control separately for leg and foot
- Extra set of arms with visibility and taper control separately for upper arm, forearm and hand
- Extra set of eyes with visibility control
- Fully rigged extra head with visibility control
- Extra cloth string with the Mgear spring system
Foot Roll Control
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Eye Direction Controller
The Eye Direction Control (named "eye_aim_ctrl") works best when you change the Follow Head slider in the Channel Box from 1 to 0. This way the eyes will still follow the eye_aim_ctrl even when you rotate the head - which is generally what you want.
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We recommend always creating a Face Camera when you animate characters in Maya. To do this, follow these steps. Creating a camera, name it faceCam, and parent it to the facial controls. Then tear it off (Panels/tear off) so you can return to the faceCam whenever you need it.
This will save you a lot of time when animating facial expressions. To see this process in more detail, watch this free video.
Animation with Thep
To see some more excellent animation with Thep, check out the reaction shot by Escapee Paloma Zhu below.
Animation with Thep
To see some more excellent animation with Thep, check out the reaction shot by Escapee Paloma Zhu below.
The Escape Studios Animation Blog offers a personal view on the art of animation and visual effects. To apply for our BA/MArt in 3D Animation, follow this link. For the next 12 week animation course, click here.
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