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Project 1
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Johnny Softspot Rig
For my personal project Johnny Softspot, I created a complex rig off my character. I will go into some details and findings.
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Envelope Deformers
One of the most important things I learned with rigs is envelope deformers. They allow the user to manipulate pieces of a character. Gives a lot more variety when animating. The entire model has some form of envelope deformer.
Hands/Mouths
I have been working on this personal project with my colleague Jack Moroney.
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He is not too knowledgeable on the rigging construction process but was still able to contribute to the rig.
I sent him a copy of this rig and he created a number of mouth / hand shapes.
Patches/Masks
With the patches I have set up, I am able to move the masks that hide certain elements such as the line art of the arms/hand joints.
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This character's design was made with rigging in mind. I made a patch that would hide the top and bottom half of the body together for more animating options.
Costumes/Angles
A great addition were the costumes. There will be more made later when necessary but for the current short the character is only in costumes at a 3/4 angle.
The bag alt is counted as a costume as it is easier to import the model with the bag into the appropriate scenes.
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I got the other angles by manipulating the features using the envelope deformers and keys.
Z Depth
To compensate for the character's limbs, patches were used so I had the ability to alter the z depth.
With the limbs split up into two parts I am able to alter the z depth of one of the joined parts without effecting the other.
