Riggy's coming to life:

Treatment...

Next step after script and the ikea-man storyboards was to animate it in Maya. This was my first ever experience in the software.

Animation tests...

'Riggy' short was an attempt to show we can animate almost anything and it need not have any physical features. Narrowing down to the basic idea of a good mime artist who enacts with least and expresses the most. Riggy who is a sweeper at a theatre performs series of acts, just like pro!

I really think the rig in it's grey un-textured surface would have served our purpose better :)

But neither the less it was some precious learning and experience making it. Thanks to my maya guru Gareth! Here's one of the initial animation tests in all it's crude greyness just for you.

In the test shot you here, Riggy is in a pretty stormy situation ;)

Enjoy!