Red Pill or the Blue Pill?

Just some more progress on my Major Project. This time its rigging, I basically felt that my rigging in advanced tech was kinda sub standard, certainly not at the standard I imagined my cinematic to be. So I basically jumped into it with both feet, trying to make as good a rig as I possibly could. I've uploaded a rig demo of just the bone deformations. Obviously its just got the proxy model attached at the moment, once the final model is finished I'll add stretchy bones, skin muscles to them, then skin wrap the final mesh to them, this is my plan anyway, to get some really nice sliding skin stuff.



I've handed this over to Kyle now so he'll have some awesome stuff soon. The next step is to get onto the head, rig it and get some morph targets going as soon as possible. I'm looking forward to this, rigging is kinda a means to an end, modelling is what I'm good at. Hopefully it'll be displacement mapped, normal mapped, the whole shebang, then maybe animated displacement maps wired to the morph targets for extra deformation, it could go on and on. It's difficult to know when to take the blue pill sometimes...