Ogg Font Family -

The Ogg font family, designed by Lucas Sharp and first released in 2013, serves as a contemporary revival of the calligraphic hand-lettering of Oscar Ogg, a prolific 20th-century book designer and calligrapher. The typeface is celebrated for its unique blend of expressive calligraphic strokes and structured typographic forms, capturing the fluid energy of Ogg's hand-carved pen nibs and brushes within a digital framework. Design Philosophy and Evolution

: The final italic styles utilize a 14° angle to improve rasterization on screens and legibility at small sizes, though hints of the original swashy display italics—such as the top serif of the uppercase "A"—are still present.

: Following its acquisition by Monotype in early 2024, the family is widely available for desktop, webfont, and app licensing. Cultural Impact

Ogg Font Family -

Collaborative creation of CGTarian team and DreamWorks Animation Studios specialists.

The Ogg font family, designed by Lucas Sharp and first released in 2013, serves as a contemporary revival of the calligraphic hand-lettering of Oscar Ogg, a prolific 20th-century book designer and calligrapher. The typeface is celebrated for its unique blend of expressive calligraphic strokes and structured typographic forms, capturing the fluid energy of Ogg's hand-carved pen nibs and brushes within a digital framework. Design Philosophy and Evolution

: The final italic styles utilize a 14° angle to improve rasterization on screens and legibility at small sizes, though hints of the original swashy display italics—such as the top serif of the uppercase "A"—are still present.

: Following its acquisition by Monotype in early 2024, the family is widely available for desktop, webfont, and app licensing. Cultural Impact

Ray Rig Video Tutorials

Below you will find video tutorials that will help you to get to know Ray and it's functionality.

Ray Rig Introduction

Get to know Ray

In this video Dreamworks' animator and CGTarian online school mentor Mike Saffianoff introduces a rig of Ray character and shows its functionality.

Naturalistic blink

Character Close-Up: Crafting a Believable Face course.

This video fragment of Mike Safianoff's (Dreamworks) lecture tells us how to create natural blinking animation. Ogg Font Family

Expressive Eyes

Character Close-Up: Crafting a Believable Face course.

Another piece of Mike Safianoff's (Dreamworks) lecture, where he tells how to create expressive eye animation.

Eye movements

Character Close-Up: Crafting a Believable Face course.

In this video Mike Safianoff's (Dreamworks) shows us important points in eye movement animation. The Ogg font family, designed by Lucas Sharp

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