Reasonably weight mapped chicken wings. Which I think looks a lot better than the Lightwave model I did five years ago (weight mapping was probably still a work in progress here or at least I hope it was, I can’t remember now):

Error riddled but I’m calling it done so I can move along with other things. Like characters and sets and maybe more paintovers. Least my arm rig works which was the purpose of the exercise! This work by ryivhnn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

Amazing what turning on the other two lights can do. Base is a bit less annoyed now that we’ve nearly finished a rig test (FINALLY). This work by ryivhnn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

This pose kind of just happened shortly after I animated a “yeah…and…?” type shrug, and it reminded me of all the similar types of poses I’ve seen in movies and various pieces of art around the place, usually where the hero has been beaten to a pulp and is staggering off somewhere or stubbornly staggers back to their feet to eventually kick arse and chew bubble gum. In other news, the arm rigs seem to work now.

Base pretending it’s not recovering from a stumble. I stuffed up the initial walk timing and with the amount of keying I’d done it was easier to just remove them and try again. It’s getting there. This work by ryivhnn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Screencap of the latest rig test. Base has had enough :) This work by ryivhnn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

How I felt after falling over problem after problem as Sprat and I bugsquished another site, also representing yet another complete failure at getting to bed before midnight. Also, folded arms are hard. This work by ryivhnn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

My completely unprofessional rig which is probably unusable by anyone else but does the job for me. It’s off-centre from the base (which everything is eventually parented to) because I did some ground stuff directly beforehand. The arms are a bit awkward to position at times as I’m using the targets to control the rotation for the elbows as I can’t seem to get pole targets working on arms for some reason (no problems on legs but legs are just easier). I’ll give it another shot before committing to the rig enough to transfer it to the other two models.

Screencap of Base after mouthing “Seriously again?” (it doesn’t have a voice). I’m trying to work out how to tackle doing bone drivers for the 10 phoneme key shapes I have. They’ll easily fit on the three mouth controllers that I have seeing as I only use one direction for anything but knowing my luck I’ll have a hell of a time remembering what’s what. Still it may have to happen seeing as bone keys are a lot easier to move than shape key keys (I actually can’t seem to move shape key keys at all for some reason).

Set up controller bones (I like them in their own Armature) and make sure the “deform” box in the bone properties panel is unchecked. find it easier having the entire face moving around with the eye directional controller because I’m weird like that (and also they end up in odd places because of how I have the head controller).