Well I took a couple days off from the class because after working a month straight I was getting a little burnt out. You know getting cranky, not wanting to even look at the alien any more, but the break did me good. Got some sleep and I am more excited than ever about finishing this project. Especially after seeing how this projects look when it is rendered out. So I am moving on the animatics and I must say that I am learning all kinds of things. Like the importance of a good control system. Take a look at the image below, that is all the controls I have just to move this little alien around, and you can’t even see the locator that controls his eye that also has all the blends hooked up to it as wel as the jaw joint that is skinned to open and shut. Whew, it gets really confusing. Almost makes me want to iconize all of the locators into curves to make everything easier to find, but I am making myself do it the hard way because I am learning why so many controls are important. And really it is not that bad now that I am used to it, I pretty much know what locator does what now.
Anyway, I ordered a book for the first time in a while, http://www.cgtoolkit.com/ for rigging and what a book it promises to be. Includes 9 hours of Video content and goes into beautiful MEL detail on setting up professional rigs for such things as muscle and fat jiggle, soft eye expressions, and many other uber cool things. Can’t wait to move on the the Maya TD class already on 3DBuz for us member sponsors and then into this book. Man Buzz, you ROCK! :)
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