New project- Kind of

Asa has asked me if it is possible for me to rig and weight her main character being a small girl. I have agreed to do so but stated it wud be almost 2 weeks before i can commence work on it as my main project comes first along with my Dissertation. I feel it will give me more experience and more work for my showreel. She was also very desperate as half her team had disappeared. Ive also been approached by a few other people to rig for them, seems nobody knows hot to do it really. Id like to accept all of them but i really just dont have the time.

Rigging the Explorer!

Finally ive got my hands on the explorer, Jonno took his time but the model is really nice to work with as its very clean and well modelled, which makes my job alot easier. Anyway as i had experience from the sleeping guy i felt more confident with the explorer although its a more complex model, which makes it slightly trickier with weighting. Anyway although the weighting was a real pain at times im happy with the outcome and am able to hand over the model to Dan now to animate. Again ive created a full rig and all the blend shapes.etc

Rigging!

Finally i get to work on my main area of the production pipeline! Along with Modelling; Rigging is my favourite area. Ive been given the Sleeping Guy model by Rob and have managed to Rig it pretty well i feel, it deforms nicely and is quite a nice rig, proberbly the best ive created. Ive added an ik/fk blend too and facial controlls for Dan to work with. Anyway without further adew heres the Rig for the sleeping guy model. I also created the face using clusters, which gives alot more acurate deformation and alot more defined facial expressions. Clusters are the way to go!

Dissertation

It really is the bane of my life! not worked on the film for two whole weeks now! how crazy is that! Hopefully i will be able to carry on as of monday but am STILL waiting on the two models for me to rig and weight. I cant do anything until i get them, which is very annoying but i guess it allows me to do my dissertation. Its still fraustrating all the same as im restricted yet again and really need the models. The film has fallen well behind and id due o even further; i think a few members intend to spend yet another week on the dissertation as opposed to the film.