{"id":4627,"date":"2016-07-14T20:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/?p=4627"},"modified":"2016-07-14T20:00:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T18:00:23","slug":"impressive-fan-made-elsa-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/14\/impressive-fan-made-elsa-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressive fan made Elsa rig"},"content":{"rendered":"

Youtube user Spiel Kind<\/a> is sharing a walkthrough of his impressive fan made Frozen’s Elsa rig.
\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DGG9TGJ9tWc[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

It is so impressive that even Disney temp worker Josh Sobel<\/a> thought it could have been “borrowed” from Disney animation but luckily Spiel Kind documented the entire process from modeling to rigging on a CG talk thread <\/a>.<\/p>\n

He breaks down the rig by explaining how many blend shapes went into the making of that rig:<\/p>\n

“27 blendshapes, which I divided up and\/or mirrored into 90 total shapes. On top of that I also have a joint-rig though, which is responsible for the jaw\/lips- and eyelid-setup.”<\/p>\n

The explanation on CGTalk is a bit more detailed:<\/p>\n

“It’s made up of four rigs in total. The first is a joint-rig, which drives the eyelids, eyelashes and the jaw\/lip setup. Marco Giordano’s<\/a> eyelid setup has been a big help for this one. The zipper setup is built after Stefan Ehrenhaus’ instructions a few pages earlier in this thread.
\nThe second one is a blendshape setup, which drives pretty much all expressive shapes. Been using some techniques from Jason Osipa’s book Stop Staring for this one.
\nBoth of these feed into the third setup, which is another joint-rig with just a few joints with very broad weighting … basically a poor man’s lattice.
\nThe fourth is the eyeball setup, which works independently from the rest and only drives two joints to which the eyeballs are skinned.”<\/p>\n

and page 5 of the CGTalk’ thread he explains what his original idea was:<\/p>\n

“The mouth is going to be driven by a joint-rig and a blendshape-rig. The joint-rig will open the jaw and provide freeform controls for lips, nose and cheeks. The blendshape-rig will contain wide, narrow, smile, frown, lip-roll out\/in\/tighten, mouth up\/down\/left\/right, upper\/lower lip-puff, cheek-puff and whatever cheek-puff’s opposite is called. Each shape will be broken down into at least lefts and rights. The lip-shapes will be broken down even more and divided among the joint-rig controls with some global ones above.” <\/p>\n

Well I guess this will tie nicely with my previous article about mouth shapes!<\/p>\n

Related posts:<\/strong><\/em>
\nYou want to be a rigger huh (v2)<\/a>
\nMouth shapes Chester V<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Elsa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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