Cody Cisneros

December 16, 2011:: Master Sword

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3ds Max/Mental Ray

I've always wanted to make this.

December 14, 2011

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Working on a little scene to do an animation with "The Escape Artist". Scene needs some work, but just thought I'de share.

October 24, 2011:: Update

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Ok, I still feel like I have tons of work left to do on this characters materials/shaders. But I just thought I'de share my progress.

October 10, 2011:: New T-pose

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Original concept on right: Janet Kim

T-pose done by me. I know it's nothing too great, just needed a t-pose so I can start modeling.

Time to model.

October 3, 2011:: Chale Brown Rig

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Custom rig "Chale Brown" built in 3ds Max

September 23, 2011 :: Walk Test

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Just a little walk cycle to check out how some of my deformations are working, could use some improvement but just a test I suppose.

September 11, 2011:: Update

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September 1, 2011 :: Chale Brown

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I have some down time so I think I am going to model and rig Chale brown, I've been meaning to for a while now. I changed his proportions a little bit from the original design so he will (hopefully) translate well into 3D.

June 28, 2011 :: Call for Submissions

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June 17, 2011 :: Update

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A little late but E3 was a blast, I was lucky enough to chat with some of the guys from Riot Studios, meet the creator of Fable, and get the coveted Minecraft head. Oh yah I got to meet Notch, the creator of Minecraft too! I even got his autograph on my mincraft T-shirt. I'll try to post photos on my facebook this week.

In other news, I had a phone interview with the Wyoming Tribune Eagle for a "where are they now" article. An article they put together to see where graduates from Cheyenne high schools are now. Pretty cool stuff. Really made me think back about why I am in the industry I am in now, and how I got here.

Just want to say thanks to everyone who inspired me and helped me along the way, my family and friends, Mom, Dad, Erika, Jim, Drea, all of my cousins, brothers and sisters, Mrs. McDougal and all my other teachers through out school in Cheyenne and here in LV. And I can't forget Mario, Link, Sonic, Toy Story, and Finding Nemo. If I missed anyone, you know who you are.

Thanks.

June 02, 2011 :: Asian Fan

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Me and Rachel were messing around with an Asian fan this week, and came up with a cool and quick little way to rig an Asian fan using "slice to" in your cylinder parameters options. I've been really busy lately, but just thought I'de share the results.

May 25, 2011 :: E3

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Out of town for the weekend then hitting E3 2011 in two weeks. Get ready...

April 14, 2011 :: New Artwork!

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New artwork from our awesome concept team in Santa Monica!

Feb. 16, 2011 :: Rigs Added

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Rigs added to gallery. I will be adding video demos for each unique rig soon, stay tuned and feel free to comment.

-Cody

Feb. 11, 2011 :: Moving Along

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Website is moving along well.

Scripts section added
Tutorials and rigs coming next
LoL: A New Champion Approaches: Maokai, the Twisted Treant

Gallery

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3ds Max Scripts

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Facial Controller with Float Limits

Quicky and easily create a controller/UI for facial animation. One button click to create a controller with already assigned float limits.

Link multiple controls into one large UI
Limits keep your facial UI looking clean and easy to read

** You are able to scale and resize the box to your needs, link into a larger UI or whatever you see fit. But just remember you will have to change the float limits manually if you do so. I had a script written out that automatically achieved this for you but we encountered a bug that randomly produced keys on flat tangents so that "script is scrapped" until the bug can be fixed.

Stretchy Bone Script

This is another great script I came across from watching Paul Neales Intermediate Rigging Videos. Simply select your bone chain by double clicking the root bone, then run the script. Done.

Greatly speeds up the time it takes to make stretchy bones for a bone based facial rig
Written into a simple UI, it can easily be added to My Rigging/animation UI or any other common tools UI or shelf that you prefer.

** I noticed there was some problems using ctrl-z (undo) after applying this script. So just remember to save often and that incremental saves can and will save your life when using any 3d package.

Download Here

Four Finger Hand Script

This is a simple script I came across from watching Paul Neales Intermediate Rigging Videos.

Script that can easily be applied to any attribute holder to create custom sliders and spinners
Can easily be edited to fit hands with only 3 or even 2 fingers
Collapsible rollouts for each finger including a master

*If your pipeline allows or you are simply working from home I highly recommend using this script in conjunction with the PEN Attribute holder. It's a great attribute holder that can save, copy, and blend poses from one to another. Made by Paul Neale, the PEN Attribute holder can dramatically speed up animation.

Check it out at PaulNeale.com

Download Here

Rigging/Animation Tools

I use this UI all the time, I have it load when Max starts up because these tools really help speed up my workflow. Here is a quick overview of tools/buttons in this UI.

Quick Group/Ungroup button
Button to assign Euler XYZ quickly, I use this when I need to set up a master clench manually for any hand. The Euler XYZ is applied to the finger bones so they can be driven by an individual finger control as well as a master. This button speeds simply speeds up the process.
Xray On/Off, self explanatory. great toggle for rigging as you can toggle Xray on/off on a frozen layer without, unfreezing, selecting, turning on Xray etc. (you have to manually write in the script editor what you want to be driven by this button)
Skin Wrap button simply helps me work faster when setting up morph targets.
Trajectory/Ghosting button simply toggles traj. or ghosting. Great for animation.
Reset Transforms- self explanatory, quickly reset transforms if they are frozen .

Download Here

Feather Script

This is a script I found on Tyson Ibeles site. I just wrote it into a simple UI, it's a great tool.

Simple Feather UI that creates and constrains a feather (or any other object) between two others.

Download Here

Toons :: Chale and Weazel

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Booze 'n Girls

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The Button

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Loading Dock

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Wooly Mammoth

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The Escape Artist

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Built in 3ds Max

Animation to follow

"Chale Brown" Rig

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Modeled/Rigged in 3ds Max

Tutorials

2011-02-01T11:55:00.000-08:00

I will be adding a tutorial section to my site.

Contact

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Feel free to email me with any comments, suggestions or questions at:

contact@codycisneros.com

You can also reach me by phone at:

702-482-5176

Profile

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Painting by Janet Kim

Hi, I'm Cody Cisneros. I'm a 23 year old animator from Cheyenne, Wyoming. I currently reside in Las Vegas, NV where I work as a 3D Character Animator for Inviro Studios.

I started making my first crude animations on the corners of my notebooks at school when I was maybe 12 or 13. I first came across 3ds Max in high school but didn't even know where to start. Since then I learned Maya at the Art Institute of Las Vegas, and have re-familiarized my self with 3ds Max while working at Inviro Studios here in Las Vegas.

I am experienced animating in both Maya and 3ds Max as well as being very familiar with everything from rigging to modeling and texturing.

Rigs

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Rigs Completed in 2011

Chale Brown

Modeled/Rigged in 3ds Max

Legend of Zelda Gear

Rigged in 3ds Max
Models downloaded from http://www.gfx-3d-model.com

Trung

"Trung" Character Rig:: Modeled by Rachel Hollenbeck

Bone based facial setup
IK/FK arms
Spine built with stretchy IK
Individual finger control with master clench/splay
Full foot roll plus left and right foot bank
Rig fully scalable
Upper and lower arm twist bones

"Ozzy" (That's what I called him)

"Ozzy" Character Rig:: Modeled by Rachel Hollenbeck

Can adjust Eye pupil size through scalable control object or custom slider
Head Squash/Stretch
Facial UI with assigned float limits for each controller
Facial setup using morph targets and bones
IK/FK arms
Spine built with stretchy IK
Individual finger control with master clench/splay
Full foot roll plus left and right foot bank
Rig fully scalable
Upper and lower arm twist bones

Rigs Completed in 2010

Marcus

"Marcus" Character Rig:: Modeled by Rachel Hollenbeck

Facial UI with assigned float limits for each controller
Facial setup using morph targets
Full FK spine
Rig Fully Scalable
Individual finger control with master clench/splay

Checkers

"Checkers" Quadrupedal Character Rig:: Modeled by Inviro Studios

Full tongue control
Toggle-able secondary motion on cheeks and ears
Facial UI with assigned float limits for each controller
Facial setup using morph targets
Full IK spine
Rig Fully Scalable
Individual finger control with master clench/splay

Cliff

"Cliff" Character Rig:: Modeled by Rachel Hollenbeck

Stomach wiggle Controller
Facial UI with assigned float limits for each controller
Facial setup using morph targets
Full FK spine
Rig Fully Scalable
Individual finger control with master clench/splay

Francis

"Francis" Character Rig:: Modeled by Inviro Studios

Facial UI with assigned float limits for each controller
Facial setup using morph targets
Full FK spine
Rig Fully Scalable
Individual finger control with master clench/splay

Sam

"Sam" Character Rig:: Modeled by Rachel Hollenbeck

Facial UI with assigned float limits for each controller
Facial setup using morph targets
Full FK spine
Rig Fully Scalable
Individual finger control with master clench/splay

Projects completed in 2011

2011-02-01T10:07:00.001-08:00

A walk cycle done with my original character "Chale Brown". Pretty much just a deformation/shader test.

Projects completed in 2010

Here's an animation I did for the intro to my 2010 student reel. Everything was done by me. Rig was downloaded from creativecrash.com

This project began as a challenge given to me from a friend to make a quadraped walk.
Afterwards I was challenged to add fur. Everything was done by me. Rig was downloaded from creativecrash.com

This was a fun project I did to mess around with ncloth and dynamics, as well as animate to some fun dialogue. Everything done by me. Rig provided by creative creativecrash.com

Walk Cycle- Rig downloaded from creativecrash.com

Box lift exercise, ended up modeling the warehouse after words to practice lighting/texturing. Rig downloaded from creativecrash.com

Inspired by a short clip I saw on youtube, mostly just messing around. Everything done by me. Rig downloaded from creativecrash.com

Simple run cycle, not much to say. Rig downloaded from creativecrash.com

2010 Demo Reel

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Spring cleaning...

2011-01-31T20:56:00.000-08:00

I think it's time for a new website and a new blog. Let the process begin now!

Hope to be done by the end of the week.

-C