rigging
with Martin Costello!
rigging our character
initial joint plan
the rig
Because I did not need any more control than Martin allowed for in the rig, I started with Martin's skeleton and controls and used them to drive my low poly mesh.
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first try at a skeleton |
smooth bind low poly mesh |
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skin binding
I found that the best way for me to weight the skin was with a constant alternation of the paint weights tool and the component editor. I would select vertices that seemed to be a problem and find their weights in the component editor. Then I would paint them to give them the right values. If I could not do exactly what I wanted with the brush, I used the component editor again to assign individual numeric weights. I also found the component editor useful when vertices were bound to a joint to which I did not want them to be bound.
high poly model
I then used the weighted mesh as a wrap for my high poly model.
