The Personification of Death...

In the spirit of Halloween I'm posting the Grim Reaper Rig that I done for Tyler Heckman
He is currently animating his thesis with this rig, along with the W.I.P pig rig...which I have to patch-up pretty soon...

One of the main challenge of this rig is getting the robe to work with out using n-cloth, giving enough control with out over killing the rig with one million+ controllers
The solution that I used is Ribben spines under hierarchys so there can be soft deformations
And this rig is also pretty strenchy happy...with some on face controls

This Rigging demo shows some quick test of the rig, and it has a walk cycle and a short animation by Michelle Czajkowski, thanks to her this rig actually looks pretty good

You can find Tyler's stuff Here
And Michelle's stuff Here

GrimReaper.Rig from zhentingzhou on Vimeo.

Please...Bear with me

This rig was done for my animator friend Jerry Chow and his thesis...
A boy in a bear suit and his adventure of hunting for honey.

For this rig, I was promised animation help from him on my thesis.
Check out his work Here

Ronald bear Rig from zhentingzhou on Vimeo.

Work in progress

so I finished rigging my dancer character for my thesis.
Animation is finally starting
I'm still working on a few rigs for some other people...but all those are done or almost done
This will be my last RIG...done manually.
I'm planning to write my own auto-rigger

It won't be too bad, because I already use script to build parts of my rig
such as arm skeleton, fk-controllers, and ik-spine.
It won't be some advance code. Just simple logic "build scripts" that works together.
The end goal is to save time on repetitive task.
Hopefully I can get it in some use-able stage by early next year
Until than I can finally focus on my thesis project

First post

This blog is for all the rigging related things I do, other than my thesis blog...and can't wait to post soon!!!