Investigation Blogpost: Week 16

This Week's Work:

Tuesday (4/19): Work on interior

Wednesday (4/20): Finish interior

Friday (4/22): Work on rigs

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Catching Up:

I had finished my interior and wanted to do one last examination of my rigs before beginning to pose my models. I had decided with the time that I had left in the year, I would pose them where they showcased the key moments of the story. However, as I looked at the rigs, I found that it was completely incompatible with my models. Everything looked off when I posed it and it got really frustrating to work with. So I decided to redo my rigs, starting with the King. I followed these tutorials, where I learned about shape keys and worked with a simpler ik rig instead of what the rigify modifier gave me.

 Following this tutorial on shape keys, I was able to make my character blink and set up controllers as well! I never got to work with shape keys since the year we would've been taught that ended early, so it was a new experience that I found very helpful.

The next three tutorials I watched, help me set up IK controllers to move my rig efficiently. The rigify rig had IK controllers too but they didn't work for me. Following these tutorials taught me a lot.

Video 1 (IK For Legs)

Video 2 (IK for Arms)

Video 3 (IK for Both)