A demonstration of the book rig has spurred many to ask me to finish the book rigging tutorial I started once. People like the way the rig moves and deforms, and they want to learn how to do it. But as my other projects continue to pile up and soon I would no longer be allowed to work on other productions, I decided to put this rig up for adoption. I mean to put it on the site so others could download and reverse engineer.

My only wish is that if there are any discussions, we'd do it here in this page as comments. So it'll be centralized. That way, if there'd be a question I could answer, I'd have the answer here and that answer would be visible to everyone else who might inquire.

The rig only works for Maya2011. It uses some features only available on 2011 and after.

Rights:
Everyone may use this is they wish for their reels. But of course, a line or two in the credits would be expected and appreciated.

Notes:
1. The demonstration in the clip is of a different rig. A previous version. It was more of a trial.

2. There was also a guy who couldn't open this same file, though he was using the same version of Maya I'm using. I couldn't help him cuz I couldn't replicate his issue.

Click here to download: BookRig(forMaya2011)
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CreativeCrash link: The Librarian
Download link: The Librarian

Features:

• FK-IK blend
• Stretch
• Ribbon Controls
• Facial Controls
• Smears
• Proxy, Low, High Display Modes

Todo:

• FK-IK Matching
• Dynamic Parenting
• More Cheek Controls

Credits:

• rigged by me: John David Marte (http://redesigndavid.com)
• modelled and textured by Nurulhuda Halim (rayzack[at]gmail.com)

Changelog:

• 1.0.1 fixed twist problems on right leg (Thanks to Christian Yamaya for pointing this out)

An animators best friend is not a dog. Flying Fox is an animator friendly rig that allows you to squash and stretch according to a direction and a position that you choose. It will also allow you to shape the rig according to how you would prefer to draw it with the use of "super-controls". Any pose is possible! It also has a tail and ears that work with the rest of the rig nicely. Watch the video to see how to use the controls. Continue Reading

Here's my first try at rigging characters. I think it's perfect for first-time animators. It's a knight with his head hammered with a huge mallet forcing his entire body to fit inside his helmet. Haha! It's actually a rig with just the legs. A bit of flexed added to the hair to add more dynamism to the overall rig. It's good if you want to practice your walk cycles. I included mine as a video example.

CHARACTERISTICS:
(If you are not new to rigging, you dont have to read this part) Unlike some rigs that you get, you either can't stretch legs or you can stretch them by sliders in the foot controls. I find that if you are just learning to animate, like me, having these limitations can be really troublesome. Aside from this, most rigs have knee targets that can get in the way especially when you haven't mastered simple steps when animating. So I have rigged my own legs-only character.

Changing the direction of the knee can easily be done by the knee control in the attributes of the foot controls. Stretching the legs are as easy as dragging the knee far from the rest of the body. The common attributes like foot roll, banking, toe bending etc are all setup for easy controlling.

Tips:

1. Alt + right clicking -> freeze rotations easily allows you to level your foot controls.
2. You could always put your environments in the environments layer to make things easy for you.
3. Right clicking on the slider beside the numbers of any numerical input attribute resets the value to 0. It's a lot easier and quicker than entering 0, especially if you want to reset a bunch of attributes in an already animated foot control.
4. Enjoy!!!

CreativeCrash link: Litte Warrior Rig

Download link: Little Warrior Rig

OH AND IF YOU WANT TO USE IT FOR YOUR ANIMATIONS, PLEASE INCLUDE MY NAME IN THE CREDITS. JOHN DAVID MARTE (email:redesigndavid@gmail.com website: redesigndavid.com).

How would you like to have a rig that you could manipulate to your heart's desire? Something with limbs that react like an accordion. In production, I believe, they call this ribbon spline control. It allows an animator to control a rig and make it bend to his wishes--almost as easy as drawing out the pose. BIT, the bending and stretching robot rig, can do this. It is fitted with with ribbon splines on each limb, body and neck (practically everywhere) allowing his accordion-like limbs to stretch and bend to your wishes.

Only downside is shin and arm guards. It's a bit of a design flaw, cuz the appendage does not allow for a wide range of movement. But I rectified it with an extra controller (that occasionally has a mind of its own) that you could use.

CreativeCrash link: Robot BIT.

Download: robot_bit_v1.1

TODO:

• demonstrate usage.
• demonstrate script.
• fix arms and shins controllers.

NOTES:

• fk-ik blends are on the main curve.
• toggles for ribbons and squash and stretch controls are also in the main curve.
• smooth toggles are also in the main curve.
• when you do use this rig, please please oh pretty please just add some credits. It would be largely appreciated.

POST SCRIPT:
The idea for this rig is not mine. We had students who were having difficulty rigging because of the nature of the movements required by their animation (they needed stretching and bending). During this time, I was working on a script (that I might release to the public soon) that needed testing. I decided to test it with this robot. This rig, with all its controls, took me a day to set up. Some minor fixes here and there a few days later. It was, in my opinion, a success, of course in the rigging point of view. I would love to be able to release the script soon. As of now, all it requires is intuitive gui, something that wouldn't cater to yours truly alone.

CREDITS:
this was rigged by John David Marte [redesigndavid.com]
this was modeled by Teo Hui Wen