Comments on: Rigged Character: "Suzanne"

By: tragey

tragey — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:27:52 +0000

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

By: krishnam raju

krishnam raju — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:25:45 +0000

how can i download a rig chararcter @free

By: sree

sree — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:33:16 +0000

down

By: rajnikant

rajnikant — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:13:24 +0000

it's very nice

By: jake

jake — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:13:21 +0000

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

By: T-Ry

T-Ry — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:55:10 +0000

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

By: mthoenes

mthoenes — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:10:52 +0000

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

By: TroutMask

TroutMask — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 04:34:28 +0000

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

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:27:18 +0000

This is going to appear in my nightmares tonight.

By: mthoenes

mthoenes — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:43:49 +0000

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