This is uncharted territory for most motion designers. You may have even dabbled with rigging, but your foundation is poor and now you need to rebuild that foundation. Rigging isn't the easiest process to tackle, and there are so many moving pieces that it can easily become overwhelming. You may even find yourself becoming lost in the massive amount of layers.
School Of Motion Rigging Academy
At School of Motion our courses challenge the industry standard by helping to create a sustainable industry that allows artists to make money and demolish ever-growing student debt. Our passionate goal is to equip artists with a top-tier motion design education experience that you'll never be able to get at a brick-and-mortar school.
If you're ready to make a decision you can head over to our courses page! Either purchase instant access to rigging academy, or sign up during registration when our courses are open for enrollment! Best wishes as you continue to grow in your motion design career!
On the 3d end, most motion designers favor Cinema 4D because of its amazing Mograph tools and other features that are tailor made for motion design. And although Cinema 4D might not be as perfectly structured for 3d character animation as Maya, its character rigging and animation tools keep getting better, and are more than serviceable for most motion design applications. And it even has a few advantages that motion designers can appreciate:
GFA 2030 - Georgia Film Academy Grip and RiggingGrip and Rigging is an introduction and orientation to the practice of rigging and supporting grip equipment, cameras, vehicles and other physical/mechanical devices. Grips are first and foremost team members. In addition to a gaining a thorough knowledge of the equipment used in grip and rigging, students will engage in on-set exercises in inventory, maintenance, set-up, troubleshooting, teamwork, set protocol and safety. The purpose of this course is to prepare students to work on a motion picture production set. As such, student responsibilities are matched to potential responsibilities as a team member on a production set as closely as possible.Prerequisite/Corequisite: Prerequisite: GFA 1000Hours: 6
The Rigstar Training and Testing Center was established in Dec. 1998 to establish hands on and class room training with testing procedures to prove one's knowledge and competency of world wide standards of rigging in the concert, theatrical and motion pictures industry.
Safety is the number one priority above all else! This hands on experience is worth more than any book can ever teach you alone. You can come to RIGSTAR to gather some of the more than 38 years of concert and theatrical rigging knowledge that Steven Kendall has accumulated throughout the vast amounts of situations that he has personally experienced in rigging. Steve's experience and training in rigging within concert arenas, theaters, stadiums, outside roofs, trade shows, convention halls, hotel ballrooms, along with fabrication of many products are for the advancement of everyone involved in show business in one way or another. Steve has toured as head rigger with such shows as Heart, Kansas, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jethro Tull, RUN DMC, STYX, Phish, Depeche Mode, Barbra Mandrell, J. Geils Band, Howard Jones, Iron Maiden, and Ice Capades just to name a few. Steve also has worked on motion pictures, stage plays, trade shows, Republican and Democratic conventions. All with out ever having an accident. Consultant for many product lines such as designing the interior hanging skeleton of the famous EAW 850's sound cabinet and one of the Klipsh sound cabinets series along with many sound hanging bars. Consultant and designer for arena and theater Truss and grid systems. Inventor of the famous K-LINK rigging slings, the Jam-Free chain guide for the Rigstar chain hoist, the new Truss Hangers, innovator of laser rigging techniques and software.
Who can benefit from coming to the Rigstar Training Center? Simple! Everyone! Whether your involved in lighting, sound, video, staging, scenic carpentry, props, stage management, facility operation management, company owners, college and university students and staff involved in a theater program, manufacturers, installers, contractors, inspectors, consultants, engineers, designers, free lance riggers, rigging companies and members of the I.A.T.S.E. Most likely you can be sponsored to attend by your local union, school, venue or company that you work for.
Students create evocative narrative and non-narrative films and installations using 2-D and 3-D digital animation techniques, live action, and motion graphics. Recommended electives include history of animation, film criticism, traditional animation, character design and rigging, lighting and rendering, audio and video, compositing and special effects, and advanced digital animation techniques. 2ff7e9595c
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