Making a Sideshow Bob by Jalo, Argentina

Concept and Modeling
Rigging and Skinning

It is very important that we have think well, that type of structure and movements to the character... like the face expressions. He is important to know this well since on the basis of the movements that we want that it does bob, beginning to draw some structures and part of the system of rigging is to another good rigging.

What is rigging? .. for that you do not know it, summarizing it it is the structure of the body that goes to cause that our character move.... like our body. We have bones and these bones move on the basis of muscles... in this case the animator is the muscle of those bone to moves.

And skinning is the skin that is going to surround to the bones... in truth the skin is modeled which we did previously and infact this serious system that helped to deform the modeling one of the character, like a language says to the structure of rigging something as well as that this between means of rigging and modeled... the method is skinning....

Rigging

We began with rigging of the Spine. I like to begin by this part... I have to go step by step solving the difficulties..... (they consider that this rigging is probably that it works for 70% of the takings that are needed and that of insurance there are to construct some others for really you need specify scenes....) The Spine is a very important point at the time of creating animation... and when an animator tries to give him life to the character this must respond correctly to all the movements. There are several forms to do rigging for a Spine but I am going to tell the one them that uses...for Sideshow Bob.

The used commands in this character in rigging are hierarchy (Link) constraints, reaction, wiring, and try to visualize it in your minds, like a structure to create.

We have a pile of bones and these we are going to control to move it them by means of helpers or UI to parameter controllers, all of them to create dependencies of objects for soon is but natural and easy at the time of animating it....

Start to draw to 4 bones for the Spine which are going to control by 3 helpers visible for the animator. And other that will be for the Riggerman and a line spline with 5 vertex that when applying to them. Controler// spline IK to controler// with Link option is not the base to begin.