Pidgy Rigging Video

It's been a long time between posts due to things not being quite mature enough to show, but we will have a couple of posts over the next couple of days. To start off with, here is a video showing the progress on the rig for Pidgy.

Pidgy WIP Demo from Courtenay Cooper on Vimeo.

Pidgy is a rig I built for the short film 'The Alcoholemist'. The rig at this point is animation ready, but I still need to skin the final mesh and add in blendshapes (for the neck puff etc) and fix up the weighting on the wings. Also going to add in a few custom controls for specific shots in the film, such as a complete squash feature, and a couple of soft modification controls. I also need to add a bend, twist and lean control for the non-finger feathers. But until we're up to finalling animation in shots, this will be enough.