Cerebus the Aardvark – Baskin Rig Finished!
I finished my work on the Baskin rig this past weekend. I’ll try to post updates on the project with how it’s going, but please check out their production blog to see everything about the project.
I worked a long time on making sure I understood how I was building the rig, keeping notes so I can recreate it easier later.
I specifically focused on getting a few things to work as I wanted them to be, like a No Flip Knee with a Pole Vector. It was a really great opportunity to work with a guy like Oliver Simonsen, who’s doing an amazing job putting this kind of project together. I learned a whole lot these past few months that I hope to keep working on and getting better at.
This is the link with my rig part in it, it’s just a picture. They’ll post animation update as things develop.
http://whatcomix.blogspot.com/2012/04/what-family-woody-allen-luzzo-baskin.html
Hand Rig – Set Driven Keys and Extra finger controls setup
I set up a file to help a friend out with their rig awhile ago. It shows a relatively simple concept of layering a rig to allow for extra overall control. I thought this was pretty nice when I first learned it, so I wanted to share this with anyone starting out who may not be aware of this technique since it’s not something that seems so simple when you’re first learning how to rig.
The file is seperated in three seperate files, showing the steps of how to setup the fingers of a hand rig with Set Driven Keys, that control custom attributes to pose the hand, and extra finger controls that allow for tweaking of the preset poses or to make completely new poses.
The way it works is like this:
You have your basic joints for your finger. Then you have your control objects, like a nurbs circle, fitted around the joints. They will be orient constrained to control the joints after the control heirarchy is set up.
The control objects are then self grouped twice, one to set the SDK on and one as the null node that doesn’t do anything.
Then the null group of the control object is parented under the next control object (not its SDK or null group).
So the idea of layering can be thought of as having one step above that which controls something, and that one thing above controls something else or is being controlled by something else, like a custom attribute in this case.
The files are pretty easy to understand, but if you have any questions please feel free to contact me for help.
You can download the files here.
Cerebus the Aardvark
I’ve been working a lot on a new rig lately for a project. It’s been helping me clean up some of my rigging knowledge and techniques that I wasn’t really happy with on my “Kattie” rig (which I plan to revise and release for free later on).
I’m keeping track of everything I’m doing since I’m also working on learning more scripting to automate things.
You can follow the production blog here http://whatcomix.blogspot.com/
The character I’ve been developing the rig for is Baskin, and this is his head with blendshapes.
Baskin model by Ajoy Paul
ajoy1paul@gmail.com
Rigging reel
UPDATED: 02/13/2012
Jose N. Molina 