making crowds

[DanielWray]

well depending on how diffrent the humanoid and non-humanoid characters are you may have an issue with using just one rig.

What i'd do is this;

Create basic humanoin rig, create a number of actions/ poses.

Apply rig to crowd characters and tweak the pre-animated actions and poses to make each one a little diffrent.

You could do the same for the non-humanoid characters too, if for example it's a four legged creatue create a basic four legged rig and then create actions and poses and do the same process.

Hope this helps.

P.s. i have no idea how they did it in the incredibles, perhaps they used crowd simulation on standard rigs, or perhaps they did this method of using a number of pre-animated actions and then hand tweaked them to make them seem diffrent.

[carsonmorton]

normally i'd be thinking along the line of animating the crowd. However, this time i'm looking for a way to change the appearance of the character without it looking ugly. Changing proportions of the body and face without blowing up the rig. That sort of thing.

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