stephg@pobox.com
Los Angeles, CA

Tools Details
All listed "Major" tools have GUIs

Proof Inc. Los Angeles, CA
Major tool systems
Building tools and character rigs for a Motion Builder/Maya Mocap/Handkey Pre-Visualization Pipeline

• Arbitrary hierarchy animation transfer
• Character Builder and Library Structure (creates character from a "wardrobe" interface with
  wardrobe image preview)
• Universal (character animation) Translator (FK to IK)
• Animation Channel Loader (alternative to Trax, fully editable)
• Auto archive scene saving utility
• Animation Pose Selector (creates and displays picture shortcut buttons)
• Character Space Switching Configurator
• Auto Control Builder
• Face Blend and Control Deconstructor/Reconstructor
• Character wardrobe pre builder
• Control rig builder (many options including space switching, IK without space switching,
  pre-built head with blends import, FK to IK compatibility hierarchy, retro-fitting options and 20
  specialized tools)
• New FBX to Maya tool with scale compensation

• Animation time/range scale slider
• Object color changer (changes color offset even with textured objects)
• Save and auto archive (with original date and new date and time in filename in "archive" folder,
  creates "archive" folder if one doesn't exist)
• Reload current scene
• Clean up (deletes unused script nodes and various nodes leftover but no longer used that are not
  caught by built in "optimize" functions)
• Close all windows (closes tool and other windows that are not part of main Maya interface)
• Skeleton mirror tool (with parented geometry normal reversing)

Threshold Animation Studios Santa Monica, CA
Major tool systems
Wrote 99% of Rigging Tools (supervised creation of the rest)

• Modified Personal Rigging system for Threshold naming conventions and requirements
• Modified Eye Movement tool for use with Threshold Characters and captured eye movement
• Auto Control Creator for IK characters

Wrote all Integration Tools

• FBX to Maya tool (with scale compensation and FK to IK)
• Image Metrics blends and controls to latest model tool
• Image Metrics track editor
  (for multi shot scenes combined to one scene)
• Multi Camera camera integrator
  (for in-scene camera switching from Motion Builder to Maya)
• Shot breakout tool
• Subcontractor Character Model topology updater

Wrote all Crowd tools used in actual production

• Fast and Dirty crowd grouping, distribution and randomization tool
• Vehicle Traffic tool
  

Personally develped tools (transportable)
Major tool systems

• Full character rigger (11 modules)
  Skeleton, Cleanup, Skinning, Controls, Create Spurs, Rename Skeleton and Control
  Objects, Remove Unwanted Weights, Save/Read Weights, Make Chain Stretchy,
  Make Bones with IK using splines, Other Tools
• Procedural Eye Movement tool (with eye hierarchy builder, multiple character support)
  Presets include:
  Camera Angle: Close Up, Shoulder, Medium, Wide
  Character State of Mind: Relaxed, Nervous, Anxious, Panic
  Other Features: Range, Multistate Variable interval, Variable Margins for duration and
  interval, individual Variable Margins for vertical and horizontal eye movement, test
  before commit, Animation overlay over procedural eye movement, eye movement hand
  animation tools, snap eye direction to scene object (from text scroll list)
• Animation Save/Read
  Includes two scroll list manual remapping, selectable object list, channels or bake, offset,
  map list preview.

Small tools

• Layer control (multi select visibility, template, reference)
• Crap Be Gone (a cleanup tool)
• Fixed interval key reducer
• Multi Smooth Proxy (creates proxies based on multi selections, and places all low res objects
  under "LoRes" node, high res objects under "Hi Res" nodes)
• Move added attributes up or down in control box
• Convert reference objects to scene objects
• Move Namespaces to UI
• Unlock and delete selected cameras
• Hide all visible cameras
• Geometry face control and face camera windows (cameras are temporary and delete when
  interface closes)
• 1 Button Copy Skin
• Demo loader (for rapid loading of demonstration scenes to demonstrate tool use)
• Align tool (inspired by 3DS Max tool)
• Control geometry maker (7 object types, selectable axes and radius, color preference, with
  naming, parenting and constraining options)
• Multi select renaming interface