Quick Ball Run Cycle

Really Really Quick run cycle here, Another warm up to get my feet. 

finished warrior rig

Finally finished this rig! I feel like over the past few weeks I have definitely satisfied my curiosity when it comes to rigging, I know its as endlessly complicated and in depth as all other areas of animation, however I do feel like I have a basic grasp on what it takes to rig a character.

I am going to have a break from rigging to concentrate on my animation, I will almost definitely re visit rigging, maybe concentrating on facial Rigs to really push the boundaries even further from what I have accomplished. I feel like I have definitely achieved a lot considering I hadn't even really touched rigging a month ago.

Here is a quick playblast of this character and a few quick poses. Will update more when I can!

Character model

Most of the modelling done!

2D Ball Bounce Across

Animation Test

2D Ball Drop (Bounce)

First of the bunch... as I mentioned before, I thought it would definitely be a good idea to go back through and re animate the work that I did at Uni, I have listed the main Initial ones we were assigned and well then... just animate them..  ha :)

Edit: The hinges are a bit rusty but all this practice will surely oil them up!

It was kind of daunting at first after being out of it for so long but here is what I came up with :)

Time taken about 15-20 Minutes

-2D Straight Drop Ball Bounce
-2D Across Screen Ball Bounce
-3D Down Object/Stairs Ball Bounce
-Pendulum
-Dice Fall

Think these were the Initial 5 we did (excluding the obvious Ease in/Ease out/Constant principles), as well as 12 ball bounces that we did to recap on the final year.

Anyway really want to work through the core principles before I move back on to the intermediate/advanced work. I think a lot of the time simplicity and structure is so much more powerful than Epic and complicated.

There's a thought for the day anyway!!

Wolfy Rig

Waheey! I love this little guy! Like I said before not super versatile and crazy, but i just wanted a good solid quad rig that I could practice animation quads with.. I don't think this is too bad for my third ever rig either!!?? Hope you like

Wolfy Rig

Here is a few snaps of my new rig ! This is just the proxy mesh which basically means the body is in parts so it makes the animating side much easier and less laggy. I have already set up most of the rig but as always I still want to take my time to make sure its a solid and animator friendly as it can be. Expect to see more up on this soon!

Mouse Warrior Rig

Really loving the rigging at the moment, once I get the quadruped rig out of the way (so look forward to that) then I am going to start uploading some animation. This character was meant to be as solid but simple as possible, I really wanted to see if i could create a rig that would not just be an experiment but something I could actually animate with. It has completely deform-able whiskers and eyebrows as an added bonus. Just aiming to up my game with every post! Hope you like

Oh and the spear has a very cool deform-able ribbon attached!

Quick Ball-Monster Rig

Just some really quick screen shots of a rig I made yesterday, I really wanted to have something really simple to start out with with practicing the principles, among other things I have made this rig so the features can be switched off just to mix and match as a normal ball.