fireangel opened this issue on Mar 27, 2013 · 30 posts
fireangel posted Wed, 27 March 2013 at 6:48 PM
Quote - Looks interesting. I see a lot of Star Wars-esque type renders for something like this. Well, SciFi anyhow. I am waiting to see how you are going to rig this. Bipeds are fairly straight forward (although difficult enough for one like me). This beast has 4 legs!
This beast should be easier to rig than a human model; it has the same number of limbs, remember arms need rigging as well as legs. However once I rig the feet I have no need to rig toes or fingers which simplifies things a lot. The elephant-like feet mean very much easier rigging, and it's no coincidence that I chose this kind of creature for my first project.
Since I haven't done organic models before though it's going to be interesting to work on this one. An opening door on an armoured vehicle is rigid and needs much less work in the rigging. Hardest thing I've done so far was rigged tracks; yep, that was a trifle tricky in places...