MODO Feature Request: Integrate Tim Crowson’s MODO Popup plugin

After I mentioned Tim Crowson’s MODO Popup Search Fields plugin in my previous tutorial and everyone who used it agreed that its functionality should come with MODO by default I decided to record a separate Feature Request video for it.

If you’d like to see this integrated into MODO please voice your request in this forum thread and don’t forget to also send in a direct Feature Request with The Foundry’s form.

Tim Crowson’s forum thread “Popup Search Fields (PySide)”
Tim Crowson’s script website

Variable FK rig

After wrecking my brain for a couple of days trying to replicate Jeff Brodsky’s Variable FK trunk rig and failing miserably, I now finally managed to pull it off.

Since I intend to use it for a spine I only added a single control but now that I have it assembled like this, adding additional controls is trivial.

Thank you also to Sergio Mucino for his walkthrough on how he set up his version of it in MODO. Good stuff! 🙂

Non-spherical eye rig test

Here’s a quick demo of how to create a rig for a nonspherical eye rig in MODO after somebody asked how to do it on The Foundry’s forums. I may record a quick tutorial later on how to set something like this up.

Spine rig demo for Lukasz Pazera

Here’s a quick demo of my work-in-progress character rig in MODO, specifically talking about the spine. I recorded this for Lukasz Pazera, the creator of the brilliant Automatic Character Setup kit for MODO in The Foundry’s forums.

How to create a squash and stretch ball rig in MODO

Here’s my first tutorial ever, going into how to create a bouncing ball rig with squash and stretch in MODO. Any questions, comments and feedback are more than welcome! Enjoy. 🙂

Forum thread “Can someone teach me how to Rig this?”
Tim Crowson’s forum thread “Popup Search Fields (PySide)”
Tim Crowson’s script website

MODO Channel Handles

Channel Handles in MODO allow for very intuitive and animator-friendly controls. I set up these finger curl controls so that you merely have to click and drag the arrow controls to curl the fingers. No numbers or angles or rotation axes to consider. Quick and simple controls. 🙂

Stretchy Spine Rig

Here’s a cartoony character rig I’m working on in MODO 901. Just set up the stretchy spine. Volume preservation for squash and stretch coming up next, as well as variable FK spine.