Cogswell College, a leading educational institution offering a unique curriculum fusing Digital Art, Engineering and Entrepreneurship, has announced that students within its Digital Art & Animation program have released a second batch of 3D animatable rigs -- depicting two original human digital characters -- through the school's in-house character program Project Avatarah.
The new 3D character rigs are bipeds-a male and a female named Henry and Caroline -- named after the founder of Cogswell College, Dr. Henry Cogswell, and his wife, Caroline. Simplicity was the main driving factor in the design of these new characters, as well as the rig. Cogswell students wanted these new rigs to have a simple control scheme to make the characters accessible to different skill levels, while also offering details as well as a wide range of motion. These rigs are meant to be used in subtle animations, with extreme actions and locomotive cycles.
With full facial rigs, and detailed control for clothing and secondary motion, the Henry and Caroline characters contain a great amount of controls, yet they are simple and easy to use. They provide the conventional features such as IK/FK switching for limbs and spine, the ability to change the parent of controls mid-animation using space-switching, and rotation orders set up in a way to reduce gimbal locks. At Cogswell, these rigs are used for upper level animation courses, mostly used in Pantomime, Dialogue pieces, and student short films.
To download these 3D rigs, visit: http://www.cogswell.edu/modeling-rigs/project-avatarah-free-rigs.php#sthash.ksQPNatL.dpbs
ALSO: For Avatarah support, requests and comments, please Email: avatarah.cogswell@gmail.com
The first character from Project Avatarah, called Cogswell the Dragon, was released via open source data to the general public during Spring 2014. As of today that first release has enjoyed a total of well over 1400 downloads.
The new 3D animatable rigs from Cogswell College are of the highest quality, and are expected to stand out in the middle of the vast world of freebie rigs available online. In addition to the first three characters released, the two Bipeds and Cogswell the Dragon, additional characters from Cogswell will include Toothy the Saber toothed tiger, Snowy the dog and Thunder the horse, Chippy the squirrel, Chubby the rabbit, Flappy the bird, and several others. Students around the world regularly seek interesting rigs to download, so that they can use them within their own portfolios as they animate original content based on these rigs.
Jonali Bhattacharyya, Associate Professor with Cogswell College's Digital Art & Animation program, and formerly with noted game companies Secret Level and Factor5, spearheads the Cogswell student-developed 3D animatable rigs project, in concert with game industry professional Sergio Sykes. Sykes, currently with Insomniac Games and formerly with Emotiv and Massive Black, is involved with the Cogswell program as an industry rigging artist and Adjunct Faculty Member.
Regarding the newest 3D rigs being released through Project Avatarah, Bhattacharyya said, Since our first release of Cogswell the Dragon, we have received tremendous and amazing feedback and comments from people all over the world. For us at Project Avatarah,' helping our students, students at other colleges, and individual animators, is the most satisfying factor of all. Today, classes at Cogswell College are self-sufficient, with high quality rigs built in-house. And we are very proud that the animation community has received our first release very positively. Now with the release of our newest characters -this set of Bipeds named Henry' and Caroline,' we are pleased to give animators everywhere some variety. We hope that other animators love animating our rigs as much as we do!
ABOUT COGSWELL COLLEGE:
Designed as a fiercely collaborative, living laboratory, Cogswell College is located in the heart of the legendary Silicon Valley in San Jose, California. The school is a WASC accredited, four-year institution of higher education with a specialized curriculum that fuses digital arts, audio technology, game design, engineering and entrepreneurship.
In 2015, Cogswell was cited by Animation Career Review as One of the Top 50 Private Game DesignSchools and Colleges in the U.S. Also in 2015, Cogswell was included in Animation Magazine's prestigious list of Top Schools to Hire From.
Numerous alumni of Cogswell College have secured prominent positions within the entertainment, videogame, technology, computer, animation, and motion graphics industries throughout California and beyond. Several of these alumni have established careers with such high profile companies as Activision, DreamWorks Animation, Disney, Electronic Arts, Pixar, and Microsoft Game Studio. Many other alumni have launched their own creative ventures.
http://www.cogswell.edu
Recent Cogswell alumni were members of the Academy Award-winning production teams that worked on the blockbuster films Frozen and Life of Pi. Some of the other well-known consumer projects to which Cogswell alumni have contributed include the feature films Big Hero 6 and The Avengers, and the popular videogames Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Halo 4 and Battlefield Hardline.
Cogswell College is located at 191 Baypointe Parkway, San Jose, California, 95134. For more information, please call 1-800-264-7955 or visit
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Cogswell College, a leading educational institution offering a unique curriculum fusing Digital Art, Engineering and Entrepreneurship, has announced that students within its Digital Art & Animation program have released a second batch of 3D animatable rigs -- depicting two original human digital characters -- through the school's in-house character program Project Avatarah. 
