Another free rig and object.
I use this character just to have fun animating and try stuff out on.
This is what I want in a rig. No more, no less. The only part messing up a bit is the IK on arms flipping a bit at times.
Look in the scene editor. There are instructions.
Also added morphtargets, but you have to add morph mixer yourself.
i like the rig it moves well 
so i’m not hacking you, just these are afew things i like to add
nice big item shapes for the hips, IK hands, IK feet, shoulders and knees/upper legs then you can have prospective as you main work window and have a top, side and front view in the side windows and there’s no need for the schematic view.
also sometimes i add an extra hip controler before the main one with the hand ik targets parented with dynaparent it’s just good to have sometimes
just my 2 cents and again cool stuff
wish i saw more of this when i was working on Rigging in LW
Much thanks tudor, really apreciated for us not so comfortable with rigging…
Very nice the pivot point to controll heel rotation, thats real nice, very similar to character studio…
Thanks again…
angel
T4d: Never tried dynaparent before… Works like a charm. Finally the ability to lock down arm whn he’s grabbing something 
Just wanted to say a big Thanks!! You’ve contributed sooo much to the community lately. Nice to see such proffesional artists from Scandinavia
dang Tudor. I’ve been wanting to model a character like this for a looooong time. Now it looks like I won’t have to! Yet another fantastic contribution
If you do dynamic parenting, consider parenting the hands to the chest, not the hips.
It’s much more likely that the hips will swivel without the hands following, but if the chest moves, the hands are very likely to follow.
Just my observation… :shrug:
The 2 things I would most like to add to this are:
A null to move the body with a nice big itemshape, instead of having to select a bone, and
parent a null to the chest bone, then the hand goals to that null, so the hand goals have the correct movement. It totally annoys me that the hand goals Y motion is forwards instead of up.
Ok, more than 2 things… also match goal orientation for the hand bones, which will work if you parent them to a null rather than the bone.
Just things I’d find easier when animating this rig…
I use the body to move the entire character… ehh… the object mesh. The reason being that I like to attach other stuff with ‘use bones from object’, and that doesn’t respect if you have a null at the top of the hierachy. Only movement from the base mesh and down is calculated (big bug perhaps?)
Hehe… and the hands. Well I agree. Never thought about correcting it that way though. cool
Match goal orientatin I will not use for hands… I have tried it but the risk of running into gimbal lock is too big. This also prevents you from having offsetted keys for secondary motion on the hands. The downside with my way of doing it though is that it will not stay exact when grabbing on to something.
Originally posted by kretin
[B]The 2 things I would most like to add to this are:A null to move the body with a nice big itemshape, instead of having to select a bone, and
parent a null to the chest bone, then the hand goals to that null, so the hand goals have the correct movement. It totally annoys me that the hand goals Y motion is forwards instead of up.
Ok, more than 2 things… also match goal orientation for the hand bones, which will work if you parent them to a null rather than the bone.
Just things I’d find easier when animating this rig… [/B]
Oh… and I don’t have access to internet for a while now… Just moved to a new flat and they screwed up the tranfer of the broadband… At an internet café now…
so. toonshady… I’ll check the animation as soon as I get my internet running again
Great stuff Henrik… some minour tweaks can be made to accomodate different animating styles, but it’s really cool that you keep putting out these clean models out there for people to use.
A big thumbs up! 
Originally posted by toonshady
[B]did a little animation with this guy.
ToonShady, this link isn’t working anymore.
Henrik: Thanks a lot! I’ve learned a lot from the DangerGirl rig, it’ll be interesting to see what you’ve added to this one.
BTW, as I’ve been studying the DangerGirl Rig, I’ve been keeping a spreadsheet to keep track of the structure. If anyone wants to download it, there is a link to iton this page. You’ll need excel to open it.
I’m updating it fairly frequently these days as I finish figuring out how the rig works. If someone doesn’t have Excel, and you really want to see it, send me an email and I’ll export it into html.
Thanks again.
Mitch Rosefelt
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