Category Archives: Norman

Norman for Blender

Posted on 26 January, 2012 by Morgan Loomis

This is so cool, I didn’t realize that someone ported Norman to Blender. Nice to see Creative Commons in action! I’ve been playing a bit with Blender recently, it’s a really impressive piece of software for being free and open … Continue reading →

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Selecting Norman Controls

Posted on 24 November, 2010 by Morgan Loomis

Norman’s naming convention is set up in such a way that it’s easy to grab all controls, or types of controls, using a name search. All controls are prepended with “ctrl” followed immediately by the type of control, such as … Continue reading →

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Troubleshooting Norman Ik/Fk Matching

Posted on 27 October, 2010 by Morgan Loomis

I’ve gotten a lot of emails from people having trouble using the mlAutoIkFk.mel script that is downloaded with Norman. Pretty much everyone who has an issue gets this error: // Error: line 1: Cannot find procedure “mlAutoIKFK”. The real problem … Continue reading →

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Norman Variations

Posted on 2 October, 2010 by Morgan Loomis

I just came across Romain Digonnet’s website, and maybe this is old news, but he’s been stockpiling a collection of Norman variations! This is something we always wanted to do but never really had the time or motivation to organize, … Continue reading →

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Norman Online

Posted on 3 March, 2009 by Morgan Loomis

For reals this time. Get him here: http://sites.google.com/site/normanrig/ Norman is free to use for non-commercial purposes, as stated in the license. Animate him, edit him, pass him along, and have fun!  Thanks to everyone who contributed: Leif Jeffers Peter Starostin … Continue reading →

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