Engineer vs Designer – Episode 13: Rich Hurrey

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Episode 13: Rich Hurrey

This week, EvD is greasin' up our best-est puppet wires and riggin' it up in modo with the one and only Rich Hurrey, Articulator at Pixar Animation. Rich has a 30,000-foot view of rigging in modo and has the knack for communicating these complex mechanisms to product designers and engineers with CAD backgrounds. Additionally, if you can handle even more rigging bliss from Rich, check out our extended interview download below in the download section. Listen in, and we'll be talkin' about:

Rich Hurrey's new Animation Course on Luxology
What is modo? Why use it as a designer or engineer?
Can an engineer utilize modo's animation features effectively?
Understanding the modo language
modo vs. other 3D visualizers
How modo could change the future of design presentations through animations

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News Updates and Links

Prepare to rejoice NX fans. Siemens has released NX 8 bringing new direct editing enhancements, the ability to sudivide models for concurrent design, more pattern layouts and some slick new multi-physics analysis solutions.
Things are heating up in the direct modeling scene. After an IP acquisition by the parent company of Bricsys, direct modeling capability is out in Bricsys V12 and in the same month licensed to Ascon for the new version of Kompas 3D. (and for some context, this would be akin to Siemens acquiring the Parasolid IP and licensing it to other 3D software companies.)
3D Systems just gobbled up Alibre in July, but they’re not loungin’ around. They’ve just released Alibre Design 2012. Features include a sporty new UI, faster sketching and the ability to copy and paste surface from Rhino and Moment of Inspiration.
The 3D animation industry is a’growin’ in China. Shandong currently has over 800 comic and animation companies, but they’re adding a 3,000 acre outsourcing park to employ another 80,000 skilled workers for the animation sector.
Techsoft 3D has rebranded Hoops3d which means company CEO, Ron Fritz, will need a new tattoo.
Alexey Ershov, at 32, becomes the youngest CEO of Ledas, which means Josh's chance is gone.
Autodesk has acquired Alice Labs and their speedy point cloud tech used in maya and max plugins.
3D World is launching a new iOS app for iPad and iPhone. You can grab a free issue if you head over and download it right now.
And last but not least! Our special guest, Rich Hurrey, has his new Rigging Master Course out for modo 501. It runs $199, but EvD listeners get a special discount. After October 24th, use the code: Rigmodo and you’ll get a $25 discount on the training, and there’s no time limit! NICE.

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5 Comments

Paul McCrorey on October 24, 2011 at 18:40

Rich Hurrey of Pixar??? That dude is awesome. Great show guys.

Chris H on October 26, 2011 at 2:21

Great show. Loving it.

Adam – What was the outcome of your outdoor recording incident? Did your PC survive? And N Sync…. Really???? You don’t admit to that.

Jay on October 26, 2011 at 3:46

Not bad 1st time checking this out. I saw the link over on lux site. One problem your video cuts switch kind of fast.

Adam OHern on October 26, 2011 at 13:15

Thanks Chris! haha, yeah, everything survived, but I definitely went back inside very, very wet… and it was cold too, so my monitor actually fogged when I got inside as well. So funny.

Adam OHern on October 26, 2011 at 13:16

Hey Jay! Glad you enjoyed it! The video could definitely use some work. Thanks for the feedback!