Amanda Rabade

Despite working on this project for about 2 months, I’m still in “trial and error” with different techniques to achieve what I want. One of my goals is to have a fully functioning rig, and I worry that I may not get to that point. Figuring out this set up has taken longer than anticipated, and most things I try only work on a smaller scale. This weekend I plan on getting as much done as I can in terms of getting something to work. My thesis class has another milestone on Tuesday, and I plan on having something of value to show. I may need to schedule a couple of meetings to talk this through so I know I’m on the right track.

My committee chair suggested I use MASH to get joints to slide on a surface using this tutorial, but it seems to be more work than its worth. I’ve yet to test out Jonah’s unwrapping method he cites here in his blog, but I’m hoping to have success with it. I’m still in contact with Jonah so the hope is to be able to get that working and move forward building my rig. Due to time constraints I may abandon building the body rig altogether and just stick with the face rig.

There’s so many components I need to solve, so I’d like to at least get the main one figured out so I’m not caught up in the details before anything actually works.