Showreel
About me
Contact
Rss feed

World orient Head and shoulders

Posted on September 12, 2010  4 Comments
Filed under Animation, Education

Nope, that’s not an advert for cosmetics, I just wanted to draw people to two great rig features I can’t live without nowadays: World orient Head and shoulders.

To tell you everything, I also use a complete world orient spine but I will post about this an other time.

In the past I didn’t mind spending countless hours redoing my animation while in polish or even counter-animating things but after few years of production experience, I have adopted some new workflows that are necessary in that type of environments.

Being able to layer finer levels of polish on every part of the body (spine included) at a very late stage, without destroying a head or arm motion is such a helper.

Word orient attributes (Align on the abAutorig) have now become my best friends and if you still don’t know what they are, let me show you an example using Norman

The good thing about that feature is that the curves always make sense in my graph editor. Everything is completely independent from any hierarchy.


With Josh Burton’s Morpheus rig, you would need to set the m_neck_IK__anim parent attribute to m_neck_FK_Cntrl and Follow to all_anim

 

 

Related posts:

World space head

Comments

4 Responses to “World orient Head and shoulders”

  1. Karim on September 13th, 2010 03:34

    Thanks for the demo, I didn’t realize you could parent the arms to the world, very handy indeed!

    About the head parented to the World, I tried both and couldn’t say how it affected my workflow, do you use it as a safety or is it a convenience in posing ?

    Cheers mate.
    K.

  2. Fini Candies – great rig :Animation with a moustache on December 1st, 2012 14:36

    […] posts: World orient head and shoulders So you want to be a rigger (TD) huh? Looney Tunes shorts online Rigging trends Josh Carey VES […]

  3. So you want to be a rigger huh? updated version :Animation with a moustache on January 3rd, 2016 16:35

    […] software part 2 Premo, the Dreamworks animation software Kaelou Rob and Ron by Tumblehead ESMA World orient Head and shoulder Norman World Align spine Looney tunes shorts […]

  4. World space head :Animation with a moustache on November 30th, 2018 17:14

    […] World orient head and shoulders […]

Leave a Reply