Here’s a quick rig test of Pointy from “A moment in the sun” in all his peeved glory. He’s growling at his co-star Gronky, played here by a metaball.

This past week 23 – 29 June was not particularly intensive creativity-wise. I did a bit more doodling and have decided my anatomy skills need work.

I watched a few movies once I hit the weekend – Summer Wars, Army of Darkness, The Passion of Joan of Arc – and started watching the original Australian series of the improv comedy TV show “Thank God You’re Here”. “The Passion of Joan of Arc” has some amazing faces in it and an amazing performance by the actress playing Joan of Arc.

Then at around quarter past six on Sunday night (tonight) I decided to do some more rigging on Pointy here. This short animation is just to see what else needs doing, ways in which the rig could be less crap, whether I should start again from scratch, etc.

It’s not the best rig in the universe but it seems to be mostly doing its job. I’d like to work with a larger deformer of some sort as well, maybe a mesh deform or a lattice just to get those more expressive character deformations with less titting around with bones. See how I go, then.

I’m still documenting the build using Blender’s screencast feature but I’m out of time tonight to cut something together. And speaking of Blender, Blender 2.71 has now been released with lots of new toys for the boys and girls.