Jesper Vlietstra 3D animator & generalist

My graduation film3D animated short · director, writer, animator

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Merlot, mid-run
Instant-Life

Blender addonAutomatic character animation

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Hippo
Creative Studios

Internship3D modeling · texturing · motion design

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Rigging

Merlot character rig

The character rig I built for Merlot, from a first version driven by shape keys to the final rig, made without auto-rigging tools.

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Rigging

The final Merlot rig. I didn’t use any auto-rigging program or addon like Rigify or CloudRig for this.
Version 1 of Merlot. This rig was mostly based on a driver-based shape key system. It was simple and fast to use, but it didn’t give us the level of control we wanted for the final film.