Major: Lost Boy - Mrs Pratt - Full Rig Demo

I will shortly start animating with Mrs Pratt, Since my last rigging post I have completed her teeth, tongue, and head controls and her rig is now fully complete. Lost Boy - Mrs Pratt Full Rig Demo from Graeme Daly on Vimeo.

Major: Lost Boy - Mrs Pratt - Facial Expressions

Mrs Pratt's facial rig is near completion. I am not completely satisfied with her facial expressions yet - as she has no eyebrows and such an odd mouth I think the majority of her emotion comes from her eyes, I really like the way the sad emotion looks as I added in a blend shape which works nicely with the blink controls to get the sad emotion across, I will return to Mrs Pratt to add more blend shapes for the eyelids such as a wide eye look to add more emotion to her. I really enjoyed modelling her teeth I wanted her teeth to add character so I added a dead tooth which I think is comical. 

Expressions

Sad Expression

Teeth Close Up

Major: Lost Boy - Mrs Pratt - Hair Rigged

I have rigged the hair for Mrs Pratt and Present Graeme, I will return to rig young Graeme's hair as he has so many layers I am not sure what is the best way to attack this especially as one scene shows him flying up out of the closet with his art result turning into a helicopter rotor - it would be nice to have his hair ruffle to the wind.

Major: Lost Boy - Mrs Pratt - Blink Rig Complete

I have rigged the eyes of Mrs Pratt, I had to redo the pose space deformers twice as I had a tiny bit of jaw rotation in the blink head model which then translated over to the control after I had it done,

I had to do the eyes individually and could not mirror the paint weights or the pose space deformers as for some reason the model won't mirror correctly which took more time However, I think it worked in my favour as I like that her eyes are slightly wonky  and don't match - I think imperfection adds charm. I'm going to treat her teeth the same which should be fun to see how they look in that gob of hers.

Major: Lost Boy - Mrs Pratt - Facial Rigging

I have been working on the Blendshapes for Mrs Pratt, She has been quite tricky to get her emotions across as she has such a weird face and particularly because the eyebrows show such emotion whereas Mrs Pratt has none. I looked at the cartoon dog scrappy for her melancholy emotion which I think worked well.

Major: Lost Boy - Mrs Pratt - Skinned

Lost Boy: Mrs Pratt - Skinning Demo from Graeme Daly on Vimeo.

Minor - Lost Boy: Mrs Pratt - Model Update

I painted over the renders to get the details into the Mrs Pratt model such as the wrinkles and folds in the sleeve before I texture her fully.

Minor: Lost Boy - Mrs Pratt - Modelling Progress