Graduation reel

Rigging
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hi,

i just wanted to show my wip of my graduation reel. it is a design and rig i have been working on for the last 20 weeks and i created a short video in the last week to show it all:

(lighting and animation are going to be done over for the good render this is just a setup to show my teachers at the examn)
some feedback of what people here would like to see more in the reel would be nice

cheers,
perry

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going to redo the whole reel, this one is giving off the wrong impression ^^ but critique and feedback is still welcome

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That was going to be my suggestions, focus on what you really want to show off. A short clip of just the rigs in action would make a much stronger presentation than what you currently have.

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after some well needed vacation i started the video to show off the rig and this is what it has become:

//youtu.be/D7rl_qsOQ-s

there is also a video in the make which shows animations, but that needs to wait until the animators are done playing with the file :slight_smile:

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Looks really cool, especially the mechanics on the leg. It would be interesting to see a bit of what’s going on under the hood of the leg though.

I’ve been doing some mechanical rigging myself lately, figuring out the Mecha Cat Rig by Nico Strobbe, and the hardest challenges for me was getting the joints/parts that can only rotate in one axis in a chain with different offsets to work. It’s pretty crazy, I’ve spent about 90% of my time rigging this on figuring out how to rig the legs. However, when you see the rig in motion you probably wouldn’t see those parts as potential challenges unless you actually tried to rig them. So when I’m finished with the rig, I will try to present the problem(s) and the solution in my rig-presentation.

This leads me to the “problem” I see with your presentation, which is that I don’t know what kind of problems and challenges you’ve actually solved. I think you should try to present the hardest challenges you’ve had to face when rigging this, you could also try present different approaches that didn’t work, and why they didn’t work.

Good job :slight_smile:

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thanks for the reply,
i actually have some different videos that show off what different approaches i have tried and why they did not work.
might make another video of that as well, because showing of everything in this rig already took 4 minutes of video.
its hard to make a good video to show of rigging skills and not make it boring XD

cheers

ps. i implemented the design of the mecha-cats spine into the tube of the back of the robot :slight_smile: because i did not want it to be a buring normal tube

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+1. I agree

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Nice work peerke88 :slight_smile:

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Very nice stuff! Has me thinking about improvements on my own rigs :slight_smile:

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thanks for the nice replys and good feedback,
slowly working on this to show more and also working on another mech (designed by someone else, to see if i am able to implement my research in other projects)

@TreyAnesi, glad to hear i inspired you (it inspires me to also do more work) i also saw your video on vimeo, really cool ideas in the UI :slight_smile: