For the past year Flex Animation has had the pleasure of working with the very talented team at Red Star 3D on their next animated feature film. Based on the best selling Terry Pratchett novel, ‘The Amazing Maurice’ is due to be released in 2022 on Sky Cinema and stars Hugh Laurie (House), Emelia Clarke (Game of Thrones) and David Thewlis (Wonder Woman).

For the project David at Flex Animation Senior Rigging Technical Director was tasked with providing a suite of facial rigging tools for a wide range of stylised characters, working closely with the Head of Rigging and Lead Animator. He then completed facial rigging for Maurice and the entire cast of characters in the film.

Sophie Vickers - Lead Character TD at Red Star 3D:

“I have had the pleasure of working with David for nearly a year. In that time he took what was a very rudimentary and bare-bones facial rigging system and built it up into a production standard tool, all the while deploying facial set-ups for a large array of very varied characters. He is a skilled rigger, very diligent, an excellent communicator and always comes to the table with a positive attitude. I sincerely hope we get to work together again and fully recommend him to anyone seeking a rigging TD.”

Should you have any questions about our facial rigging services, please do contact us.