Working on projects off and on, generally more off than on, often leaves you in a position of not knowing what you were thinking when you last transitioned from on to off. I remember being very frustrated with HumanIK and not knowing why it wasn’t working for me. Turns out it was a setting I didn’t know to use, and was thankfully (and finally) shown to me by a college instructor of mine in a video tutorial he made before I even graduated. As a result, the Link rig I have been working on is nearly done, with just a few minor manipulators for props and maybe some weight painting redos if necessary. From here, on to Altair.

Then, they fight.

The last few months have been pretty busy, between dealing with insurance snafus, getting Maya licensed and working, and putting time into both more rigging projects and helping make sure my brother gets to take a break from his busy workload to see and spend time with his newborn son Daniel. That having been said, on to what’s been happening.

I have a project in the works, using free, legally available models. I’ve got two models set up in HumanIK, which is new for me, but they are going to be doing some intense combat.

*I am not claiming ownership of the IP that these two characters represent. I’m just using the models to practice my rigging and animation abilities. They were both acquired on CreativeCrash.com as legal, free to use models.*

Also got some non-human rigs in the work, one is a cute little Chimera, made by my friend Sarah Kisor.

The second is an alienish cat, made by my friend Liam Savage.

Little creepy, huh? He’s for a horror game, supposed to be creepy.