roseshards | Rigging on the Wrong Settings... #animation #cartoon @roseshards | Uploaded 8 months ago | Updated 9 hours ago
It really be like that sometimes........

To clarify, this reel was made entirely as a joke, it's not really that doom and gloom! I just wanted to kind of poke fun at my earlier self because I had somehow managed to teach myself a TON about rigging, including how to do master controllers, yet somehow completely overlooked what may be the most basic rule of rigging, which is to set all your pegs to "separate" and not "3d path" lol. You can still animate it if you put it to the wrong setting, but there will prob be some issues at some point, like maybe the eye will randomly move behind the head and you have to fix it frame-by-frame. It's not a death sentence for your rig, but please don't be like me

It can be fixable if you do make that mistake, but only in certain scenarios. For my Spooky rig, I didn't rig a front or side view and I only had like 3 poses saved for reuse, so I just took the L and switched the settings. The base pose is fine if you switch the settings, so long as you didn't deform or move anything into that position. It's the poses you did AFTER that usually get ruined. As for Wolf's rig he was actually mostly ok, I was scared of checking for a while though bc of what happened with Spooky's rig lol. But I had done most of him on a company computer at the time and I guess someone had set Toonboom to make pegs "separate" and not "3d path" by default, so I was lucky. I may have exaggerated a little for comedic effect Hehe. But also he was my first ever rig (ambitious I know ) anddddd he's broken in many other ways so that's how working with him FEELS lol. I'm redoing his entire design and rig though so it's allllll good