rigging a Chinese dragon? 2004-04-16 - By Carl Callewaert
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http://www.starlitestudios.net/tut_sec/sec_motion.htm
i found this also really interesting to have look at.
cheers,
carl
-- --Original Message-- --
From: Brad Abrahams
To: XSI@(protected)
Sent: 4/16/2004 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: rigging a Chinese dragon?
Hi Jamie,
Thanks for the response, I will check the page out now. How did you get
them
working in conjunction with bones? Did you still have control over ik
and
joint rotation?
Brad
-- -- Original Message -- --
From: "Jamie" <edesignersinc@(protected)>
To: <XSI@(protected)>
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: rigging a Chinese dragon?
> 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.
> > -- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- --
> > 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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