@Miss B and @Lobo3433 Thank you both so much! I'm really happy with this little guy. I had wanted to do this since my last gingerbread man a couple years ago. That one was just a static prop with the traditional cookie-cutter shape. I tried to rig that one, but the shape really wasn't suited for animation, so I went with this "Shrek" style shape instead.

Blender's rigging system is so wonderful to work with, I really could have gone wild with this rig and added a ton of different drivers for the face and all sorts of intricate controllers, but I really wanted to have him released before the end of the first week of Dec because I have a few other characters I'm working on now too. Rigging these toon style characters is really a whole bunch of fun once you get the hang of it, and you tend to want to push things further each time.

Thank you again. Boy, I wish the notification system would get fixed because I didn't even know anyone commented here until I logged back into the site. Happy Holidays, everyone! I should be in touch again before Christmas.

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