I little cleanup

Hello everyone, I imported the rig into enviroment, did some cleanup on unused enviroment models.

Looking Good

Rig Tutorial

Hey guys, here is a quick tutorial on some of the more obscure things about the rig.

First and foremost is the clothing with nCloth. 1) Select the clothing mesh and then in the channel box, turn off it's layer (cloth_effects_test_001_layer2).
2) Then go to the attribute editor and under the nClothShape2 tab make sure "Enable" is unchecked.

The reason for this is because if the nCloth is enabled, when you try to scrub through the timeline it will try the calculate the cloth, and that will completely slow down everything. So don't worry about the nCloth for now, that will come later when we are ready to render.


The next thing is the shoulder shrug controls. These are under the ShoulderSpineControl (see image below). Here you have verticle and horizontal controls for the left and right shoulders independently.















another thing of note is that the face controls are not rigged to any sort of control. I will teach anyone who is doing facial animation the blendshape controls. It's not very difficult, just confusing. Everything else you should be able to figure out on your own. if you have any questions, go ahead and ask.

anyway, that's pretty much it, and have fun animating!

This is the environment so far. I believe its looking pretty good.

Clothing Dynamics test

I know that the effects is Sean's area, But I went ahead and did this because I needed to rig it to the character. So anyway, yeah, this is cloth simulation. Tell me what you guys think about this. Surprisingly it's not too heavy on the calculations. Took about 2 minutes on my laptop for 2 seconds. So that's about 1 minute calculation time per second. It would probably go faster on my desktop. So, tell me... Is it good, should i tweak it a little more, or scrap the idea?

these are some of the things I've textured

Expressions

Here are a few expressions

Rigging Controls

Here are the controls for the rig.

Enviroment_InterLabs

scenes 3 and 4 storyboards

machine 2

machine 1

Here is one of the props

Here's the googlyeye creature

mo' main props

here's the flamethrower

Here's the finished janitor Model.

Darren Flame Thrower Designs

lab prop models