August ProgBlog #1: Protective 3 animated

• AEfter Ragnarok

Four years ago (x_x) I made this piece:

^{Protective is actually 2 and the original Protective was badly drawn in a uni notebook a hundred million years ago}

Earlier this year I decided to “continue” this slightly older video

There I was doing cloth sim, hair dynamics I think and also testing out this clumsy rig I’d made for the Avian crests. In this one I was purely testing the Dragonkin rig and trying extremely hard not to get distracted with (re)learning cloth sim and seeing if the new hair system could animate yet. I also made it slightly nicer than I normally would because it’s been a while since I animated properly.

There’s a number of things left to fix but I made myself leave it because it was supposed to be just to test out the rig, and I really, really, really need to get back to building.

Most of what I got out of that was that I seem to be missing some controllers (Zara’s rig had some extra controllers that either hadn’t generated or just didn’t exist) and I need 7-9 tail controllers (and hopefully not more x_x) as 5 could make one tight loop but not more without everything going awry.

If you stare really hard at the last pic you might see Zara’s gigantic owl eyes through the lenses.

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