Character Rigging

Ok, my new book is read…. Deep Breath

Step 1 – Center Character – so far so good

Step 2 – make sure you did not apply smoothing.. oh that would have been helpful to know before I smoothed everything

Step2a un-smooth everything which is easy enough as long as you did not delete history go to history and change smooth division to 0.  Now if you deleted history as in the case of my shoes I tried to go back many increments but it appears I did a lot of work after smoothing and finally go them perfect I guess we are going to find out what happens if we leave it smoothed.

Little things done to make it easier to rig so lets continue

First try – not great so I jumped ahead and started mirroring and parenting – select child parent then p….nope try again still not working time for a break.

2nd rig attempt…better but not great let’s try parenting again.  Ok select just the end joint you are parenting to since I have gone this far I did a quick smooth bind it looks ok – note to self start shoulder slightly over and lower hips a little.

Final rig looks good, labeled joints (hit copy and past the name for all those fingers) Control setup was painless – small hint when adding control to fingers label it then duplicate and then you only need to change part of the name.

Binding went ok until I notice my feet were not attached to the root -easy fix parent foot to leg and back to binding.