Toy Soldier Rig

Now the character models were completed, the next step was to rig my models ready for animations. I first created a biped and scaled it to fit inside my toy soldier model.


I then added a skin modifier to my toy soldier model and added the biped I had just created. I spent a long while skinning the vertices of my model to the biped, paying a lot of attention to the complicated thigh and hips area.


After I finished skinning the model, I made a quick walk and rendered it to make sure that the model deformed properly.



To rig the face of the toy soldier I duplicated the model multiple time and changed a single feature of each one of the models. I did this until all the required components had been created.


After I had created all the different facial expression components I made a morph modifier on the toy solfier model and added all the models. I then spent some time making test emotions.


I was very happy with how these turned out and feel they would been good enough to communicate the character's emotion to the audience. I animated a very short clip to test a few emotions and the movement of the toy soldier.



This completed the modelling and rigging of my toy soldier character which is now ready to animate.