Saturday, March 24, 2007



The final rigging has been done!!! The blend shapes are finished!!!
The whole week has been a blur since the last post and if I didn't have this time off this would never have gotten this far!! Thank the LORD that I also have ten days starting with Easter week! As things are right now I'm only one week behind schedule. Rigging problems included shoulder, crotch, buttocks, elbow and other deformations. Skin weighting was a challenge but after I figured how to configure the paint weights tool and tweak with the attribute editor things moved more quickly. Blend shapes took from Wednesday to Friday with Jenna and only Saturday with Nikky. Practice makes proficient. Blend shape difficulties included duplicating with a negative scale causing the blends to flip! Messing with the bind pose and causing the blends to shift. There was also fighting with the blend shape creation and adding option boxes. General stupidity can be added to the list of reasons for gaffs: deleting my head control because it wasn't properly labeled, not saving the right version of files and trying to undo skin weighting, knowing full well that the undo won't work on that stuff. If I now can get the dialogue matched to the characters I will feel confident of this projects completion.

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