Rigged Character: "Suzanne"

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1. 1 Keen Jun 27th, 2006 at 7:02 am

   hahah cool that looks really creepy =D

2. 2 mpl Jun 27th, 2006 at 7:55 am

   yeah, very creepy indeed! reminds me of chris cunninghams monkey-drummer-thing….

3. 3 Mantar Jun 27th, 2006 at 8:08 am

   "That's not a female! Just look at it! NO BOOBIES!" - Master Shake

4. 4 James Davis Jun 27th, 2006 at 2:53 pm

   Excellent job Michael Thoenes!

5. 5 mthoenes Jun 27th, 2006 at 3:43 pm

   It's great to get put on Blendernation.. many thanks..

   Rigged Character: “Suzanne” was an attempt to use the existing "Suzanne" monkey head in Blender to make an animatable character… I quickly discovered I needed to totally rebuild the head.. the default Blender object is not well suited for shapekey (RVK's for us old-timers) deformation. I rebuilt the head to have circular loops for the mouth and eyes.. I modeled a half face and then built half-face expressions joining them in various combinations flipping and mirroring as needed. I then used the RVK1 to RVK2 script to apply the various shapekeys to a base head. (It was critical inthis process to always keep the same number of verts in all the joined heads.. - removing doubles along the center of the face.)

   The rig is built on older Blender technology and does not make use of many newer features, however it is pretty functional…You may want to turn off subdivision surfaces for the model to speed up the interface.

   if you select the head, and check the action window you will find the shapekey sliders…. "Scared" is turned all the way up…

   If you have any questions, post them.. I will try to give meaningful answers…

   mthoenes

6. 6 Robert Jun 27th, 2006 at 4:27 pm

   This is going to appear in my nightmares tonight.

7. 7 TroutMask Jun 28th, 2006 at 5:34 am

   i released a realistic facial animation setup in May on blenderartists. it never gets mentioned in the same sentence as ludwig or mancandy though i believe it is the most advanced facial animation setup using blendshapes available to blender users. even though a lot of the shapes are not perfect, it should serve as a reference.

   http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=66656

8. 8 mthoenes Jun 28th, 2006 at 1:10 pm

   TroutMask…. Very nice face rig…. thanks for mentioning it.

9. 9 T-Ry Jun 28th, 2006 at 2:55 pm

   Trout, that's pretty sweet. I'll be adding that to my list of things to read/study.

10. 10 jake Mar 28th, 2007 at 2:13 am

    that reminds me of a model I'm working on. It is like that but a ninja.

11. 11 rajnikant Jun 3rd, 2007 at 6:13 pm

    it's very nice

12. 12 sree Oct 29th, 2007 at 11:33 am

    down

13. 13 krishnam raju Nov 15th, 2007 at 3:25 pm

    how can i download a rig chararcter @free

14. 14 tragey Mar 3rd, 2008 at 3:27 pm

    Cool staff. But can anyone show me the links or tutorials to making cloth in blender???

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