Rigging Foundations
Joints, constraints, hierarchies and the logic of a rig — what animators need and why.
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Rigging & Character Setup
Build the puppet's strings.
Rigging is where art meets engineering, and good riggers are the rarest people in animation. You'll learn to build skeletons, controls and deformation systems animators love to use — and enough Python to build the tools that save a production hundreds of hours.
1 year · full-timeOn campus · HaldwaniNo experience required
What you'll learn
The curriculum.
Deformation
Skinning, blendshapes and correctives: making a mesh bend like a body instead of a hose.
Control Systems
IK/FK switching, space swaps and clean, animator-friendly control rigs for bodies and props.
Face Rigging
The hardest 20% of a character: expressive facial systems for dialogue-heavy series work.
Scripting for Riggers
Python fundamentals and small pipeline tools — auto-riggers, renamers, checks that catch mistakes.
Production Term
Rig a full cast handed over from the modelling program, then support animators using your rigs.
Tools you'll work in
Autodesk MayaBlenderPython
After the year
Where this takes you.
You leave with a specialised portfolio built on real briefs — and a year of habits from a floor that ships. These are the roles this program prepares you for. Admissions open for the next intake — seats are limited.
Rigging Artist
Character TD
Technical Animator
Pipeline Assistant
How the year runs
Twelve months, one craft.
Whichever program you choose, the shape of the year is the same — because it is the shape apprenticeship has always had.
01Months 1–3
Foundations
Fundamentals, daily. Whatever your program, the first term builds the craft basics everything else stands on — with no prior experience assumed.
02Months 4–9
Specialisation
Deep in your discipline. Weekly briefs, weekly reviews, rising difficulty — the same feedback loop the studio's own work goes through.
03Months 10–12
The Studio Floor
Live briefs from real productions. You finish with a portfolio of work made to shipping standard — not classroom exercises.