3D Modeling II Blog

Progress building bones, binding skin, painting weights and making controllers. I ran into some weird problems. The model was all individual pieces so even when i combined the mesh or tried to use booleans, the mesh never connected right which caused this. There was also a weird thing with the weight of the eyebrows when using the head control only. I tried to paint weights but it was blacked out so weight painting was not the issue. Final demonstration

polishing animation Baking skeleton with keys. Blend Shapes Cacheing animation

Making the skeleton Adding influence and painting weights adding controllers

Getting the model rigged. Binding skin and painting weights. Was able to parent curves to the bone, but the script editor would not work. Since my script editor would not let me parent the curve to the bone, I was unable to add an effective IK handle to the neck. I loaded in his file and worked from there. Head controls. Adding controllers