Kevin Mannens，比利时人，最初他是在鲁汶大学就学,并且在这里获得了哲学硕士学位。在经过了一系列不幸的事件以后，他重新苏醒，并且在Alias|Wavefront欧洲支持中心作为应用工程师工作了三年。在欧洲旅行期间，Kevin与AW的客户例如Moving Picture Company, Double Negative, CFC, Cinesite等一起工作。因为希望生活在更温暖的气候中，Kevin移居到菲律宾马尼拉，在ImagineAsia任职技术总监。现在他是伦敦Moving Picture Company的技术总监，他参与制作的获奖电影包括了<<10,000 BC>>与<<纳尼亚传奇：里海王子>>

Kevin Mannens, a Belgian native, originally pursued an academic career at the University of Leuven, where he received his MA in philosophy. Due to a mind-boggling sequence of fortunate events, he regained consciousness and worked three years at the Alias|Wavefront (AW) European Support Centre as an application engineer. Traveling around Europe, Kevin worked with and trained AW clients such as Moving Picture Company, Double Negative, CFC, Cinesite and many more. Wanting a warmer climate and new professional challenges, Kevin moved to Manila, in the Philippines, for a job as Technical Director at ImagineAsia. He hasn’t looked back since and swears by his lifestyle as a lyrical vagabond, alternating between TD and SCUBA instructor, most recently in China, Malaysia, Philippines, New Zealand, Taiwan and Thailand. He is currently Technical Director at The Moving Picture Company in London. His feature film credits include: 10,000 BC and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

在本教程中，Kevin Mannens 为你讲授如何高效率的运用MEL来完成动画制作流程。通过教程你可以学习国际MEL大师Kevin MANNENS他怎样在Maya三维世界里自由“掌控”着MEL语言。通过本教程MEL动画设计师依赖表达方式可建立用其它角色运动和行为的动画过程，本 教程让你掌握用MEL现实Maya高深动画技法，显示出作者MEL艺术的深厚底蕴。同时，作者应用了角色动画与MEL紧密揉合的各种现代手法。让我们在这 三张Gnomon MEL教程中共同掌握MEL在CG设计中的奇葩艺术之巅！

In MEL for Character Animators, Kevin Mannens develops a wide variety of scripting techniques designed to speed up your character animation workflow and make your pipeline more efficient. He explains all scripts in an in-depth and step-by-step manner, aimed at making advanced users more productive in their day-to-day tasks. With this DVD, technically oriented animators will become proficient in developing project specific tools that will shave days off each production.

01: Introduction and Refresher
02: km_animControlCleanup:
Cleaning up Character Controls in a Jiffy
03: km_createDummy:
Creating Low-res Objects Based on Joints to Speed up Animation
04: km_rename: A Hierarchy Renamer
05: km_charControls:
Building a Channel Box Integrated Character UI

Gnomon Workshop是全球娱乐业与设计工业设计师的顶级专业培训机构，它是由Alex Alvarez在2000创建的。它原本是为那些无法参加加利福尼亚GNOMON SCHOOL好莱坞特效课程的学员提供一个分享专业技术的平台。在过去的9年时间里，GNOMON教学系列DVD已经提供了超过60多位专业讲师的教学系列，涉及到了各种不同的工具，软件与媒介，包括了设计，绘画，雕塑，建模，贴图，动画，特效与合成等各方面。

Gnomon以提供最顶级的教学为己任，不但教授了知识，还激发了学员的灵感，帮助学员实现他们的个人目标，不论你感兴趣的是数码抠像，还是角色建模，数码场景设计，汽车设计，生物渲染，雕塑，这些DVD都能帮助艺术家从顶级设计师那里学习到专业的经验，节省自己的时间，并且增加应用技巧。这些技术都是需要作为教师的艺术家通过多年的时间才能掌握的。

Gnomon位处好莱坞的核心地段，已经发展成为顶级专家培养下一代设计专家的枢纽，Gnomon school的教学设施包括了17000平方英尺的教室，工作室，实验室与办公室，制作间。每学期有70个教室教授250个学生，在这个行业，没有哪个学校能提供如此高端的教学服务。GNOMON的创建者ALEX本身就是一位设计师，保持着与这些行业的沟通，确保GNOMON保持行业培训的核心地位。

Welcome to The Gnomon Workshop, the industry leader in professional training for artists in the entertainment and design industries. Founded by Alex Alvarez in 2000, The Gnomon Workshop was launched as a means to share professional techniques with artists who could not attend the hands-on courses offered at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood, California. Over the past nine years, the Gnomon Workshop DVD library has expanded to offer training by over sixty professional instructors on a diverse range of tools, software and media including design, drawing, sculpture, painting, modeling, texturing, animation, effects and compositing. Shipped to literally every corner of the globe, our DVDs can be found in countless libraries, studios and universities... and on many thousand bookshelves.

Gnomon's mission has always been to provide the highest caliber training that both educates and inspires, in order to help artists achieve their personal goals. Whether your interests are digital matte painting, character modeling, digital sets, vehicle design, creature rendering or maquette sculpture, our DVDs help artists learn from the experience of others in order to save time and improve skills. Techniques that have taken our instructors years to master are available to artists in a format that is unparalleled in art education history. Our customers range from high-school students who are just discovering the career opportunities that lie ahead of them, to seasoned professionals with decades of experience.

Located in the heart of Hollywood, Gnomon has become a hub for many of the industries top talents who come together to help train their peers and the next generation of artists. The Gnomon School and The Gnomon Workshop facilities comprise of over 17000 square feet of classrooms, studios, lounges, labs, offices and production space. With over 250 students and 70 instructors every term at the School, no other training provider is as immersed in the industry and it's education as The Gnomon Workshop. Our founder Alex Alvarez, himself an artist and instructor, maintains a constant dialogue with the industry to ensure that Gnomon maintains its position as a critical industry resource. As the demand for artists increases and the quality of visuals in games and film continues to mature, education is the foundation of our industry's future.