Kotey Annan - Invidious

Kotey Annan

2026 Goal
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Complete Kiwa Advanced Skeleton Tutorial

Continue Anthro Snow Leopard and Hare modeling, texturing, rigging & grooming tutorial

Continue Kiwa Boogie urban dance mix animation project series

Start feature animation & hand painting studies series

Start Maya Bifrost and MASH R&D series

Start BTS series for epic animated short film project (Pre visualization) (zbrush character, prop & environment sculpting) (diffuse-only character, prop, vfx & environment shading) (advanced skeleton & custom rigging solutions) (body dynamics & acting animation) (Bifrost graph and MASH simulations) (working with voice actors) (google Gemini and Veo) (cinematography, composition drafting & cinematic lighting) (editing, compositing, post processing, 2d fx, sfx, music)

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I am a 3d Generalist and animated film developer with specializations in digital character sculpting, body dynamics and acting animation. I work primarily with Zbrush, Maya and the Adobe Creative Suite.

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Kotey Annan

In upcoming lessons, I'm going to be showcasing how to create this abdominal flex and ribcage/stomach vacuum PSD that integrates perfectly with the IK/FK and volume control systems of the advanced skeleton spine. These two PSD's are triggered by a backward rotation of the chest (simulation of inhalation) and a forward rotation of the chest (simulation of abdominal flexing). The stomach vacuum is an exaggerated effect that will come handy during animation(I will explain the reasoning behind the choice to go with it). I also show how to create custom controls in many interesting ways to toggle these effects on or off or modulate their intensities.

2 months ago | [YT] | 13

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In upcoming lessons, you are going to see me replace "some" of my rotation drivers with more reliable locator based driving systems.

Using a decompose matrix to access offset parent matrix rotation values is fine for limbs that rarely run into gimbal lock, but rotation drivers fail for more complex limbs that very easily trigger multiple rotation channels on simple movements.

Locators, distance, multiplyDivide, condition, clamp, clamp range and a plethora of other maya utility nodes provide native solutions that you may be interested in trying out, before committing to free or paid PSD plugins.

In this course, you will see me try and fail at certain solutions but I will show that it is fairly simple to recover, retreat and find a more sound resolution without too much penalty.

3 months ago | [YT] | 7

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Bear with me as I wrap up the face troubleshooting for the ongoing Advanced Skeleton course in the next handful of lessons (anywhere from 4 to 8 lessons more of troubleshooting the head and ears to completion).

After that we continue on with more fun stuff, Corrective Deformation, and later on, nCloth Rigging.

I'm also working on the next set of Anthro courses, and plan for them to be released on Tuesday and Thursday.
So i'll have a video for every day of the week soon.

Mon,Wed, Fri = Advanced Skeleton Rigging Course
Tue, Thur = Anthro characters modeling, texturing, grooming and rigging

4 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 14

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I'm going to try out a 3 day a week release schedule for my tutorials.
This week, you guys will get videos on Mon, Wed and Fri at 12:00AM EST

5 months ago | [YT] | 5

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Kotey Annan

Which of these courses do you follow this page for?
OR
Which of these courses are you more or most interested in?

7 months ago | [YT] | 2

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A series of lessons for the cheeseburger course coming out on Monday Jun 9th at 12AM.
In those lessons I will be painting and setting up the final materials for the burger, cheese and onions.
After that, all that is left, is the bottom bun and the fluid mesh painting and material setup.