493 Week 2

 

9/6/2025

                     Post 2 Character Decision:

            So, during this week, I was experimenting with the free rigs available on the different sites. I surprisingly couldn't find a working rigged character for Shrek or Tangled. All of the possible rigs were so messed up with the model and the joints being so broken, I might as well have just made one from scratch. So, the next best thing I thought of was to imitate a scene from Aladdin. I found a working Jasmine rig and I found a working Jafar rig and I went through the movie and found a good short scene with the two interacting and now I only just been able to start working on the animation. 

This was one of the rigs that I was hoping to work successfully but as you can see, the IK/FK controllers were everywhere, and they weren't binding to the model skin well so there were many breaks.

This Jasmine rig was working successfully with only little issues with body collision with the clothing. The Jafar one was similar with the same issues, so the plan is to animate the character as-is and fix the clothing issues as I work more on the rig. I've been working on other projects this week so its been hard to get much progress in the beginning, but once the work schedule finds it's groove, I'll be able to accomplish more in the coming weeks.