This page collects links to my old Game Developer articles and other published works. Submit!: An overview of how to write a successful GDC talk. The Conquest of Space: a conceptual article about how riggers and animators should think about…
I’ve been using this address to host slide copies of my 2006 GDC talk Character Rigger’s Cookbook. When Dropbox stopped hosting images I had to take them down temporarily. However I found an old recording of the original presentation, so ra…
Posted on Sun 09 October 2016 in blog It’s been a craaazy summer at work, so I had to defer integrating a bunch of mGui changes that have been sitting on a branch in the GitHub repo for several months. However things have settled down a bit…
Posted on Thu 22 June 2017 in blog • Tagged with python, web An interesting way to get python into the browser Posted on Sun 23 April 2017 in blog • Tagged with gdc, rigging Some issues with the Character Riggers’ Cookbook Posted on Wed 29
This is a blog about technical art, particularly Maya, Python, and Unity. With lots of obscurantist references thrown in for my own amusement. I fell in love with computer animation in the Dark Ages, in more ways than one: I dropped out of
Posted on Fri 28 March 2014 in blog I’ve left this article mostly intact, but some elements of the syntax have changed in mGui 2.0. The big changes, generally speaking, are under the hood — but the 2.0 version uses pep-8 style naming so the…
Posted on Sat 26 March 2016 in blog For those of you who’ve been using mGui to speed up and simplify your Maya gui coding, there are some interesting changes on the horizon. Although I’m not entirely ready to release the changes I have in m…
Posted on Wed 26 March 2014 in blog If you hate regexes as much as I do - which, honestly, seems scarcely possible - you should check out these regex preview sites which make like a little easier when you’re trying to work out a particularl…