Activities Report

Ok, I took a week off to recharge and study my book and courses and here I am showing you what I managed to build in two days after reading and studying for two weeks.

I can’t begin to tell you how much time I waste counter animating Izumi’s legs to stay flat on the ground when I animate a new dance or what ever or when she is standing on her toes, as you can see in the video, that will be a thing of the past since all that is gonna be automated, the process of controlling the legs with just one bone and struggle to pose the legs manually will be obsolete as it should have been a long time ago.

This is gonna be awesome, among the many videos I've been watching there was a phrase that said:

“Don’t animate to the rig, rig for the animation”

That to me that I should not be limited by what my rig can do, but rather build my rig to what I want it to do, this is one reason I wanted to learn how to build a rig from scratch and not use any auto rigging tool. I want to build a much better MMD rig, something that will make it much easier for my to animate and make my work better and faster, after a week reading theory and a couple days of studying how to build a nice rig I started build Izumi’s new IK leg rig, here is a demo of what I managed to build, I wanted to start literally from the ground up, so I started with the legs, then the torso and head, and leave the arms for last, coincidentally, this seems to be somewhat in order of how difficult is gonna be for me to build, the legs seemed to me to be less difficult than the arms when it came to build IK rigs, and now that the IK rig is done I will build the FK rig which should be even easier, but I am gonna stop there for now and go back to animation the next dance and make some progress in both ends.

Once this rig is complete I should be able to apply it to any MMD model since what I am building I am doing on top of MMD’s meta deformation rig, I’d just have to snap the Blender rig in place, this would also allow me to render in blender although that is another story, maybe I need to learn how to script in blender to make that process even faster but that also is for later.

See Tinh Dance is now public

As you can see, the latest dance is now public and the download can be found in my Youtube channel, however and due to how nosy Mediafire has become, the archive has a password but you can find it in the description box of the video, and the download can be found here.