Reverse Foot Rig

The reverse foot rig does exactly as the name suggests. Using a joint chain that runs up the leg and IK solvers you create a leg rig that allow you to pivot from the toe, ball of foot, heel, and ankle. This is very useful so that a character can have steady feet.

IK Spline Spine

IK spline is a type of solver that positions joints along a curve. This is particularly useful for the spine since it acts much like a curve.

FK Controllers

FK controllers allow the animator work in a forward manner. This is useful for a variety of situations such as the arms.

Set Driven Key Hands

Set driven keys allow you to record attribute values much like animation keys but instead of being tied to the timeline they are tied to other attribute values. For example, You can create attributes for each finger in a hand, then record the joint rotations of the finger joints at different values for those attributes.

Other Rigging

Let’s finish up other missing rigging elements such as the eye rigging.

Rig & Animation (FK rigging) Lab

Forward kinematics (FK) is the default way that joints work. Just a basic heirarchy. However, you never want to animate on the skeleton directly. This means that controllers should be created to interact with. Once those are produce any remaining rigging elements will be developed.