rigging a Chinese dragon? 2004-04-16 - By Jamie
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Take a look at the plugins on this guys site...
http://perso.club-internet.fr/christophe.mallard/CmTools/Home.htm
They are not well enough advertised in my opinion, he has tutorial vids and
allsorts, they are
like quick stretch for bone chains, I used it recently on the legs of a bug
I was animating, took a little
tweaking, but it did exactly what it said on the tin...
Failing that, using soft constraints for the chest and pelvis depth of the
spine will give you a soft flowie
movement, or even constraining nulls to a softbodied cylinder, plotting the
motion and using these to constrain the bones to...
But the string Op is a good bet...
Hope this helps...
Jamie McDonnell
Character Design / Rigging / Animation
www.jm3d.co.uk
-- -- Original Message -- --
From: "Graham D Clark" <mail@(protected)>
To: <XSI@(protected)>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 5:59 PM
Subject: RE: rigging a Chinese dragon?
> Another option might be "Shape Rigging", ie the bones transforms plotted
> to shape points clusters, then remove the animation, and obj to cluster
> constrain the bones to the point clusters on the shape. Then you can use
> multiple operators (like wave) on the shape for another layer of
> animation on top of the orginal animation.
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> http://www.grahamdclark.com
> 2nd hand TD
>
>
>
> > -- --Original Message-- --
> > From: owner-xsi@(protected)
> > [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of Brad Abrahams
> > Sent: April 15, 2004 4:02 PM
> > To: XSI@(protected)
> > Subject: Re: rigging a Chinese dragon?
> >
> >
> > Hi Adrian,
> >
> > I will give the spines a go, although, do you have any
> > suggestions on how to
> > had some sort of dynamic element to the chains? be it fake or
> > not (cloth,
> > soft constraints, etc.).
> >
> > Thanks very much,
> > Brad
> >
> >
> > -- -- Original Message -- --
> > From: "adrian" <adrian@(protected)>
> > To: <XSI@(protected)>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:31 AM
> > Subject: Re: rigging a Chinese dragon?
> >
> >
> > > chained isner spines?
> > >
> > > worked for the snakes we did last year
> > >
> > > Brad Abrahams wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hey everyone,
> > > >
> > > > I will be creating a rig that will roughly follow the shape and
> > > > structure of a Chinese dragon (as seen in parades and kites), and
> > > > which will move like one as well. I was wondering if
> > anyone had any
> > > > initial suggestions. The limbs do not have to be overly
> > articulated,
> > > > nor does will the rig be very complex. I would like it to
> > have some
> > > > sort of soft constraints/simulation for the flowing
> > motion of the body
> > > > limbs tail and hairs.
> > > >
> > > > I'd appreciate any input,
> > > > Brad Abrahams
> > >
> > >
> > > --
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