Akari Maya Rigging Breakdown 2021

This two videos shows my Rigged akari model.
This was for a school project so I only received the model and did all the rigging, controls, blend shapes, paint weighting and expressions by myself.

I was daunted when I starting rigging again as I did not enjoy/ understand it when I first started in 2019. But after being taught how to properly during the rigging module in 2021. When it came to doing the this project, It became one of my favourite projects for the year!

I enjoyed the trouble shooting and math of the custom expressions, how everything had a process to follow and how it could be expanded upon if I had more time to do extra on the rig.

As it was something I understood more now I could add extra things like tongue and hair rigs, paint weights of the clothing, adding custom UI buttons, extra expressions and blend shapes.