A question about secondary animation and rigging a tie

[Cactus Dan]

Howdy,

Well, I'm not sure how you'd do it in the application you're using, because I use my own character rigging plugins in Cinema 4D, but the way I usually set up things like that is with a spline IK. Then I create two control systems, one for manual control and the other for dynamic control, which I set up with my CD Spring Constraint. Then I constrain the spline targets to both control systems and create a blend slider to blend between manual control and dynamic control:
http://www.cactus3d.com/DynamicTongue.mov

Adios,
Cactus Dan

[jabco]

Thanks Cactus, that tounge vid looked sweet. I'll Try it that way and get back to you.

Thanks very much

[d-brooks]

nice character design. Is this for an animated short? I look forward to seeing the completed rig :D

[jabco]

nice character design. Is this for an animated short? I look forward to seeing the completed rig :D

Thanks dude. Yea, as part of my couse's final assesment we have to make a 1 - 2 minute long animation. It doesn't have a title yet but heres the basic premise:

A dude (the character im rigging) is sitting at his desk at his job, desperatly waiting for 5pm to roll around. At about 4:45pm his boss drops a humungus pile of paperwork on his desk to be photocopied by 5 - only thing is the photocopier is posessd by a demon.

The photocopier is gonna try and eat him, blind him and stuff so yea... theres the premise :p

ps: could you please explain how you rigged the controllers for the lionesses tail in your showreel? (it rocks!) - so that when you move the end controller the controllers going back up the spine share a portion of the translates (i don't really need it for my tie, it just spiked my interests).

Thanks dude

Jabco

[d-brooks]

Hey Jabco!

That whole tail thing was something I learnt from the Art of Rigging 1 a couple years ago. It was one of the videos demonstrating a dynamic hair driving a joint chain...it's all simple stuff. If you can get hold of it it covers some basic rigging ideas.

feel free to shoot me an email if you have any specific problems though

[jabco]

Hey Jabco!

That whole tail thing was something I learnt from the Art of Rigging 1 a couple years ago. It was one of the videos demonstrating a dynamic hair driving a joint chain...it's all simple stuff. If you can get hold of it it covers some basic rigging ideas.

feel free to shoot me an email if you have any specific problems though



Thanks very much man. I have access to the dvd so I'll check it out.

And thanks for letting me email you. Maybe when my rig is finished you could take a look at it and see if there are any problems i've over looked :p

[Coyote12]

Fk control rig would work and so would a IK spline system or Dynamic Hair.

If you want to try a cool set up mix a standard IK spline rig and then soft constraint the controller objects from the knot to the end of the tie.

Then when the character moves the tie will look like it is flapping in the wind and delays the motion it recieves from the parent.

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