Beats Pill

Outfit Rig • Buck Rigging Tools

This project was a continuation of the Beats Pills project with Mikey and his friends. This was also my second project working as a rigging artist at Buck and I had more resposibilities for outfits and props. I got to create more complex rigs for the outfits to help the animators get better functionality. I also had a lot of fun rigging different props and got to use deformers and ribbons to create more complex rigging systems.

Final Result

Final Shot - Robe

Final Shot - Valentine

Final Shot - Fitness

Final Shot - Gala

Breakdown

The bottom of the robe following the legs

The sleeves following the twist of the wrist

Mikey Robe

The robe outfit for Mikey was one of the first complex rigs that I had to figure out.

I created sliders on the bottom controls, so that the animator can adjust how much the bottom of the robe will follow the movement of the legs.
For the sleeves, I added a slider to adjust the weight for following the twisting of the wrist.

iPhone lanyard bends

The card can deform and be floppy

The ribbon was set up to act like an IK system

Props

I was tasked with creating rigs for these 3 props: iPhone lanyard, card, and gift ribbon.

For the iPhone lanyard, I created an IK spline system with tweak controls to be able to move the individual strings.
For the card, I added several FK chains so the card is able to smoothly bend.
Lastly, for the gift ribbon, I added a ribbon rig with some minor tweaks to get nice deformations.

The dip in the towel can be moved around

Deformer

For this towel on the pool chair, I used a lattice deformer to give the animator control of the depression of the foot on the towel. This was used to get subtle movements for Mikey when he steps down onto the towel.

The pool chair also has controls for the props and pillow

Sonia's dress with grid controls

Gala Outfits

I rigged 3 of the fancy outfits for Mikey, Cameron, and Sonia. Although the suits were similar to rig, Sonia's dress was a bit more complicated. In order to get a spread of controls on the long dress, I used a cloth rig with a surface and grid pattern of controls.