Kiel Figgins - Special Guest

Kiel's website: www.3Dfiggins.com My name is Ilse Zamarripa, welcome to The Worldspace! Today we have Kiel Figgins as a guest, who is a a talented animator and rigger. He will guide us through his workflow, how to learn rigging and tips and tricks to combine animation and rigging. MAIN TOPICS: Animation, rigging, optimize your workflow, Maya, Gaming animation, Video Game industry, Gaming companies, How to learn Rigging, Combine rig and animation, simplicity of controls, VFX, Feature animation, visual effects, ILM, Mandalorian, King Arthur, snake animation, Age of Ultron Avengers, Spiderman far from home. My webpage: www.ilsezama.com My linkedin account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilsezama/ Contact me for product reviews, sponsorship, or collaborations at: ilse.worldspace@gmail.com QUESTIONS: Can we discuss your amazing animation of the snake character in king Arthur? What was your workflow to get it done? It's super interesting that you are a great rigger and a great animator! With the experience you have, what do you look for in a rig? Simplicity of controls or enough features to support different animation styles? What do you consider an advanced human rig? What could you imagine will come next in terms of setup? I remember you told me that your lowest grade at school was rigging and I wanted to ask you this, cause I feel there are many online animation classes, but not so many rigging-oriented ones. Is there a rigging program a book or a learning method that you could recommend? how did you learn more about rigging? How has the knowledge of animation changed your rigging? Are there main structural differences between game rigs, feature rigs and VFX rigs? You have models, tools, and great rigs I've played around with some and they are pretty neat, what drove you to start your store? You're blind in one eye, I believe this is very inspirational, cause even though you don't have stereo vision, you're an incredible 3D artist! Has this ever represented a big challenge in your career in general? What do you enjoy the most about being a lead? Even though you are a very good lead, you've told me before that you wouldn't be interested in being the head of your own company, you have a very interesting philosophy surrounding that reasoning, would you mind telling us a little bit about that?

Author

Ilse Zamarripa

Release Date

October 2020

Duration

22m

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