Concept to rig in under 15 minutes
One concept image to a rigged 3D character: ComfyUI, Tripo, Maya, ZBrush, AccuRIG, iClone.
Tools I use
My toolbox.
Every tool behind my videos and my production work on Thresholds, sorted by what it does in the pipeline.
Some links are affiliate links. I only list tools I actually use.How it all connects
One orchestrator, one backbone, then the tools. Click an area to jump to it.
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Orchestrate
AI production orchestrator, powered by Claude Code. It plans, routes and checks the work across every tool below. Each agent supports a role I direct; none replaces the artist in it.How PXLnexus works →
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Backbone
My production tools. Tracking, bidding, library, review, and the tools inside Maya and Nuke that connect everything.See PXLsuite →
Capture and virtual production
Scanning, virtual cameras and real-time sets.
Gaussian-splat capture hardware (PortalCam), on my Thresholds pipeline for scanning locations.
Seen inThresholds
Brings Gaussian splats into Unreal Engine 5 and relights them. Part of the Thresholds pipeline.
Seen inThresholds
iPhone virtual camera for previz against the Unreal set. I am building Maya tools around it.
Seen inThresholds
Epic's real-time engine: Thresholds environments and rendering, and where my previs characters end up.
Polygonflow's world-building plugin for Unreal Engine 5. I work with it as a beta partner.
Seen inThresholds
AI image, video and voice
Generation inside a pipeline, not next to one.
FREEOpen-source, node-based engine for AI image and video. My character-sheet and shot workflows run inside it.
Google's image model. From one concept image it builds the full character sheet, with the views 3D needs.
Seen inConcept to Rig
Reallusion's 3D-to-AI tool: consistent AI actors, shot after shot, driven by the 3D character.
Seen inHoly Grail
3D and characters
From an AI mesh to clean, rigged production topology.
FREE TRIALTurns the character-sheet views into a high-poly, triangulated 3D model with PBR textures, exported as GLB.
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The hub of my pipelines. I am an Autodesk Certified Professional and Approved Instructor.
FREE BY PXLMENTORMaya has no native GLB import, so I built this. One click brings a GLB into Maya.
Seen inConcept to Rig
FREE BY PXLMENTORMy second free Maya tool: builds a client-ready asset presentation in seconds.
Seen inConcept to Rig
Sculpting, ZWrap and Decimation Master: from over 3 million polygons to 75K, UVs and textures kept.
Wraps clean topology onto scans and AI meshes. I am a Faceform beta tester.
Seen inHoly Grail
Reallusion's character platform: clean, rigged production topology for the hero character.
Seen inHoly Grail
Texturing and look‑dev
Materials, texture transfer and rendering.
Texturing. I beta-tested it before the Adobe acquisition; texture transfer on IndyKid.
Seen inHoly Grail
Rig, animation and performance
From a static mesh to a performing character.
FREEFree auto rig from Reallusion. Under five minutes, no manual weight painting, no bone placement.
Seen inConcept to Rig
Animation and cameras: test the rig, pose it, animate it, export FBX for Maya and Unreal.
FX
Real-time simulation.
Comp and edit
Where the shots and the video come together.
Compositing, over 20 years of it. My PXLtools include tools for Nuke.
Seen inProduction work
See them in action
The videos these tools come from.
The Holy Grail of AI VFX
The full breakdown of IndyKid and the AI Crusade: traditional VFX and AI, one hybrid workflow.
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