Bring RIG.B to Life in This Autodesk Sponsored Contest

Main Image by Madchamo

The Autodesk Art team has provided a robot character for you to flex your creative muscles with! Texture, Animate or bring RIG.B to life with some imaginative FX.

Entries into The Rookies RIG.B contest have a chance to win a ton of cool prizes, including 3x BOXX Technologies laptops, gift cards, hardware from Wacom and software from Adobe! For the full list of prizes, check it out here.

Important Dates

Entries Close 11th April, 2023
Finalists announced 17th April, 2023
Winners announced 25th April, 2023

Making of the Autodesk RIG.B

For a bit of inspiration, have a look at how Paul Neale created this clean and simple robot rig:

Choose From 3 Categories

Texturing

Bring RIG.B to life with your amazing texturing skills. Here is a link to an .OBJ file of RIG.B in a t-pose for you to texture the model. If you want a more dynamic pose,

Mike Waterworth and Sankalp Sharma have provided a Maya file with 8 different poses for you to use.

In the explainer video, Mike walks you through how to reference the character for you to be able to utilise the different poses:

Enter the Texturing Category

Animation

Bring RIG.B to life and show us your amazing animation skills. The RIG.B character is using a HIK control rig so be sure to watch some of the explainer videos below to fully understand how to use the controls!

Enter the Animation Category

FX

Bring RIG.B to life by adding some FX magic! This could be lightning bolts, sparks, smoke, or flames let your imagination run wild.

We have 3 animations that you can choose from, to add your FX work to. A shout-out to Norberto Aguilera for doing the animations for us. Grab the animations from here.

You can use other software to add your FX, it's not limited to an Autodesk product.

Enter the FX Category

Make sure to read the rules, and if you'd like to ask some questions about the contest, then jump on our Discord server, we have a #autodesk-rigb channel set up there.