The beginning of an epic rig...

vexyco

Hey all I thought I'd start this WIP of a rig that I'm creating.
Ima go through a lil bit about how I'm doing it.
The character I'm using is from Jwhittingham001.
I'll also be creating a mushroom character for funzies in between so enjoy!
I am also doing another skeleton in a character buut it's going into MotionBuilder but I shall show you a lil of that one too ^__^

vexyco

The second turtle like character is being created by LiamOdearme

darthwilson

I'm looking forward to this!!

vexyco

This is where my mushroom model is currently at.

I decided on this one as it matched LiamOdearme's character the best as it will be his pet
I'm waiting on new orthographs from Jwhittingham001 to plan the new rig to match his character alterations

vexyco

This is the new rig plan for Jwhittingham001 new character design

njc6425

Havent seen a rigging thread before, this should be fun to follow...specially as i need to do a rig for school soon good luck, love how you planned it out as well

vexyco

After having a set back of models being redone I have some time on my hand inbetween learning MotionBuilder. I can do a small tutorial on how to get started if anyone would like... (It was pretty confusing for me at first so let me know)
But also to pass my time I have decided to do a complex rig for LiamODearMe's character so this is the plan for that...

The best thing for rigging is to plan your rig's out and ask the animator and the modeller how they intended for it to move, what the character will be doing, all things along the lines of that. Hence my plan and realising where extra bones need to be so for the armour and such

MiAlx

Hey great planning, keep at it! Only one thing, if you aren't already, you should definitely look into building a reverse foot lock for your characters, they are invaluable for proper animation and simply a must for strong rigs. I thought i'd mention it, since i didn't read it anywhere in your posts.

vexyco

There are many ways to do the feet, I find a group based system works better as RP solvers are better like when connecting IK's. But I have only tested the reverse foot lock system once, I'll test it with the whole rig . I'll probably make the legs stretchy as well and RC solvers tend to be a lil buggy when there stretchy, thanks for the advice though, I'll do some tests with it ^__^

vexyco

UPDATE!
I finished my mushroom and so I thought I'd show it off, the animation will be combined in a youtube video, which I shall link when everythings done.
This is what he looks like:

Simmo

I'm reminded of

Looking good so far, keep going!

Dnna1

I think I can learn to join you slowly.

vexyco

The mushroom finished texture!

I know it doesnt look like much but I have mostle been in MB looping and making on the spot animations

vexyco

Sorry for not being on here in sooo long but I have mostly been animating in motion builder, but i finished my rigs so I thought I'd touch base on what I did and how I set up my switch as it's a new way I was shown and its sooooo much better XD

vexyco

The Rig I created for jacobs character was more simplistic then the one I created for Liam.
Here's a explination of it....

vexyco

I know I just updated but I thought I'd add a montage of MoCap shiz and MB so here it is