2-5/06/2015

This week has been some what of a traversing adventure in terms of sorting out Tubbs. Today w had decided to settle with what works and avoid what dosn't in the rig so we can continuie to the animating process and make progress. I had made a current final version of Tubbs's Rig and am now setting up the scene files for the each shot including camera cuts, resolution etc.

Over last weekend i had created the hose rig which is ready to be animated:

29/05/2015

Today i had been diverted by a double transform issue that emanates throughout the hierarchy and causes certain joints to rotate undesirably. This will be my main focus over the weekend to find a way around the issue as well as starting to set up the shots i have been assigned and possibly modelling some assets for the outside environment.

28/05/2015

Today i worked on finishing off Tubbs cape rig by modeling and rigging the Capes Knot. Began modelling the Mumz costume for Tubbs too, which includes the Apron and Gloves.

27/05/2015

Today i had worked on and finished the clothes and rig for Tubbs Hero costume:

26/05/2015

Today i had focused on the cape rig in which i had created an nHair system for free flowing automated cloth simulation. While encountering multiple problems to do with the controlling of the cape , i have decided to create n automated rig as well as a manual controlled rig also, think of an Ik-Fk switch for dynamic simulation,

25/05/2015

Today i had modeled Tubbs face mask and cape, i had skinned the face mask by copying the skin weights from the body to the mask. I had uv mapped both the cape and the face mask.

22/05/2015

Today i focused mainly on testing the rig for any possible issues, while testing i had created a few jiggle deformers to test the meshs plausibility of solid fluid deforming.

Tubbs belly jiggle Test Animation:

quick test for simple expressions, of course there will be a more in depth collection of expressions and polished animation later.

Tubbs Expressions test 01:

21/05/2015

Today i had started a walk cycle for the testing of the Tubbs rig and also some render tests to keep an eye on any deformations in the rig and textures that may need attention.

20/05/2015

Today i had focused on finishing off the articulation of the rig and further cleaned up the hierarchy of grouping. Testing was also done in terms of facial rig and possible breaks and deformations that may cause issues.

19/05/2015

Today i had found a solution to the double transforms on the facial rig, after which another issue had arisen however i managed to sort this out with an overlook of the rigs entirety and dissolved the cancer. I had also worked on smoothing the skin weight maps will had some SDK's to keep the volume in areas such as the elbows and knees.

 Here is a screenshot of a test for a smile and frown using as minimal movement as possible:

                                                 

16-18/05/2015

Over the weekend and during Monday i have continued to dissolve the situations of double transforming groups in terms of the curve based rig of the face. Although i had resolved the particular issue of unwanted transforming, another problem was sure to arise and that's what had happened, although my clusters group had zero transforms; they were still deforming undesirably.

15/05/2015

Today i had just been cleaning up the skin weighting maps and re created the mouth rig again.

14/05/2015

I finished work on the eye rig and began work on the  mouth rig using curves which was a tedious process and involved me conjuring institutional formulas for particular parts of the rig.

Tonight i decided to relax with some sculpting and sketches:

13/05/2015

Today was another day on skinning which has taken longer then expected due to me finding work arounds for minor issues like inherent transform etc.

12/05/2015

Today i believe i began work on the skin weighting process and general clean up of the rigs heirachy.

11/05/2015

Today i had mostly sorting out the eye rig which i had finished by the end of day.

09-10/05/2015

during the weekend i had been setting up the eye rig manually and worked on cleaning up the heir achy of the groups and so on.

Apart from that i decided to give myself a few hours to do some sculpting, i used basic template which were already provided in mudbox (Reptile and T-Rex). The sculpts i had done took around an hour each and this is what i had produced in those hours. of course they are still rough and could do with alot more sculpting however they look alright for the concepts they intended to be.

08/05/2015

Today i was unable to do any work all day because i had to spend all day removing everything from my USB drive and reformat it entirely which took until tomorrow the next day.

06-07/05/2015

during these two days i was unable to make real progress all due to my computer malfunctioning. at the end of the day on the 7th i was able to finaly have my problem resolved

05/04/2015

Today i had been working on applying the remainder of the constraints and connections including an IK-FK switch blended between a bind structure, i have a Gif animation screenshot for an example:

The blending between the IK and FK have worked out to have a really nice smooth transition between the two even when the IK-FK switch attribute is in the decimals.