This time for the arm rigs.

The "blue" arm is using IK boost.  The "red" arm is in default T pose still but is using the original rig which was modified from the leg rig (which works really well so far).  The elbow directional on the arm just wasn't working.  I have ikstop on the collarbone and handles on the elbow and hand to make them that bit easier to see and grab.  Need to remove the elbowD bone from the right hand rig (it's the red bone pointing downward), reorganise the bone hierarchy and apply ikboost to that.  Then have to associate all the sliders with the hand bones seeing as I won't be needing the IK goal nulls anymore.

QAD render to celebrate finishing the bulk of rigging. A couple of tiny little tweaks to make but it's stuff I can do as I go.

Low enhanced antialiasing, radiosity and Skytracer on default settings (added the thing, checked the cloud boxes).

Think I used too much blue. And yes it looks funny as there are no joint or face morphs. I need more RAM and less OpenGL sliders.

The pose is based off a really old pic of my sister's as I realised a bit ago that my base models matched up with her fan characters.

I've spent a good amount of time trying to work out how the hell to do a prehensile tail rig. The last time I did it, it involved a 72 bone multi-goal IK chain.

It kinda hurt.

This time, it involves a 65 bone IKB chain, main direction controlled by the big ball-shaped null object on the end.

I haven't yet tried to wrap the tail around something but I am stupidly confident.

Going to do some sliders to control the fingers and the wings, then that's ready to go, and I have to do the sliders thing for the fingers on the other two models before I start building characters.

But I can start building characters! YAY!

Showing off the completed rig of the Avian base model.

Weight mapping and adjusting geometry on wings. Still a way to go, obviously.

Grabs from a 22 second animation made for the express purposes of testing my rig and making some weight maps.