Rigging Miezis Kirr from Dominance War (more specifically, the arms)

[crydrk]

Well, unless I missed something you didn't tell us what program you are rigging in. I'll put in my two cents assuming you're using maya, but I think what I am going to say can be applied to a lot of other 3d applications.

It looks to me like that character will be walking on it's arms. I would use ik for that. You could try building a joint chain as if it was two separate arms. Then set up iks for each arm (so for the 'arms' we're looking at 4 iks total) Then have both of the ik handles in the exact same spot and always move together with your control. Now I can imagine having both of those ik setups at the same time may cause you to lose control of having the elbows exactly the direction you want. That's where you can use a pole vector constraint in maya, or whatever the equivalent is in another program.

That's just how I would try to do it. There might be easier ways, but at my current level of knowledge that's the best way I can think of.

[semmel]

Sorry, I forgot to mention: yes, I'm using Maya.

Thanks for your advice, I hadn't thought of that, even though it seems quite obvious. I'll try that

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