Week 9

This week we have started to back on track a bit and we are progressing steadily. I spent this week finishing off Tammy's fishing, reaction, bow pickup, and run scenes and finalizing the ncloth configuration for hers and Billy's rigs. i will need to do a bit of cleaning up for some of the scenes to polish the timing and animation curves.


I did have some trouble animating with this auto-rig as it had a few issues with joint orientation and clunky controls. In retrospect we probably should have rigged the characters ourselves as it would've taken about the same amount of time if not less time depending on if you count time spent fixing problems that the auto-rigs have caused. Auto rigs seem to be a quick fix rather than a proper solution, and if you want a rig that will do everything you want it to, you're better off doing it yourself than hoping an auto-rig will solve your problems.


I have also started working on a face rig for Billy since we are about to start animating his scenes.