The AJ character rig was designed for a collaborative animation project. The rig features fk/ik blending on the arms and legs, set driven key finger controls and NURBS curve slider controls for facial blendshapes.

FK/IK Arms With Stretchy

FK/IK Legs With Stretchy

NURBS Facial Control Sliders

This angel wing is one in a set of three wings used in Matt Via’s “Remnant” game level. The geometry was optimized for the Unreal game engine, so the challenge for this rig was to create believable overlapping movement without an underling mesh.

Automatic Finger Control Setup

This mel script creates new attributes on a hand controller for each finger joint, then generates the set driven keys to connect the control to each joint.

Automatic FK/IK Leg and Reverse Foot

This python and mel script automates the set up of a leg skeleton. First, it creates a reference skeleton with locators that can be positioned to fit any mesh. Then it creates joints at the position of each locator and parents them into a skeleton. FK controls are then added. Then IK controls are added to the leg and a reverse foot is created. After the heel is positioned the reverse foot is re-parented and attributes are added to a foot control for rotating the foot around different pivots.