After looking at this past week's work on cycles, I'm going to have a new rule. No more modifying Norman or any other rigs for the rest of term, other than proportion tweaks. After this cycle exercise, I'm going to start assigning rigs per assignment.
The reason for this is because in the past week, I've seen a LOT of work done on the rigs, more so than on the actual cycles. While we all want to put character into our work, the real challenge is to put it into the motion without the help of the character. This will take place on the next assignment.
For learning animation, it's important to have easy to use, fast rigs. For those of you that use rigs with heavy wrap deformers it's just hurting your ability to iterate on your work, as they slow down playback to a crawl. Some of you have kept within the spirit of the assignment...I think Sonia's devil rig did a good job of not going too crazy with a mod, but to keep things fair and to focus on animation, rule in effect....after next class.
also...the talented Matt Ornstein has some great simple rigs on his site.
The Lt. Dan rig is really effective for understanding the princicples of a cycle.
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