Almost finished her rig
Added 2021-05-19 21:50:49 +0000 UTCHi Everyone!
Well the Empress Rig is nearing completion. The above image is her rig, posed and drawn entirely within ToonBoom Harmony.
She exemplifies a huge bunch of theories and work practices which I've been researching and perfecting over the last few months in readiness for the Cookbook which I'm in the process of writing.
She is an extremely complicated puppet it's true, but now she's made, it will be extremely easy for me to apply these principles and even large chunks of her actual rig to other realistic humanoid characters in the future.
It was very important for me to make her, as I would argue bodies are harder to design than heads, so I wanted to iron out as many bugs as I could before writing them down in the cookbook.
I even discovered a few new features for the regular Harmony guide, so I'll definitely add that to the ongoing revisions when I've got a moment.
She uses an extensive construction of Constraints for her rig- something which I wanted to experiment with when I had the time to do so, as it can allow for a kind of deformer-on-deformer effect which is the holy grail when it comes to animating bodies, with their need for endless pliancy.
Her face and breasts also use several new animated taper techniques which work pretty well, so again- into the cookbook they go.
I'm going to animate her for an advert for the Guide, and then onto the next project which is more ToonBoom teaching based
Before all that though, I've been recording all the work I've done on her, so I'm going to make a video on what I did for her, which of course all my lovely Patrons will get first glance at. I have a feeling it's going to be fairly long!
See ya soon.
Oli ;-)
