It's a fairly simple setup, same as the tail. Create about 9-10 joints for each ear. Create a control object, group it to itself. Snap it to the first joint. Repeat for all the joints. Parent constrain each joint to its control. Then, PC each child control's group to the control object above it; ie, Select earCTRL1, sel. earCTRL_grp2, Parent Constrain. To animate, simply select all, or some of the controls and rotate. Simple, but it made smooth animations and met my needs.
Check out Jason Schleifer's "Animator Friendly Rigging" books. I got a *.pdf version of book 2 that he made for Siggraph 06 (I think) from a professor at my school.
Unfortunately, I am currently too busy working on my film (animating this character) to create a how-to tutorial about Carson (dog's name). This rig is a result of a year of trial and error (this being the third rig I made for this model), with knowledge from 2 animation rigging classes at the Academy of Art university in San Francisco, and countless meetings with professors. Besides the help from school, Jason Schliefer's books/tutorials have also been helpful. I recommend those at this time.
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bydesigneralexramos 1 year ago
What software/program did you use?
TheZipstorm 1 year ago
@TheZipstorm Autodesk's Maya v8.5 for everything.
Lucky008aau 1 year ago
hey how do you get the ears to move like that
digimonworld123 2 years ago
It's a fairly simple setup, same as the tail. Create about 9-10 joints for each ear. Create a control object, group it to itself. Snap it to the first joint. Repeat for all the joints. Parent constrain each joint to its control. Then, PC each child control's group to the control object above it; ie, Select earCTRL1, sel. earCTRL_grp2, Parent Constrain. To animate, simply select all, or some of the controls and rotate. Simple, but it made smooth animations and met my needs.
Lucky008aau 2 years ago
no toes?
stoob1969 2 years ago
hi! I'm really impressed on your rig. Can you suggest some advanced tutorial on how to rig like that using splines/curves and controllers? thanks!
aikijeet 3 years ago
Check out Jason Schleifer's "Animator Friendly Rigging" books. I got a *.pdf version of book 2 that he made for Siggraph 06 (I think) from a professor at my school.
Lucky008aau 3 years ago
tutorial plzzz!!!
chops185 3 years ago
Unfortunately, I am currently too busy working on my film (animating this character) to create a how-to tutorial about Carson (dog's name). This rig is a result of a year of trial and error (this being the third rig I made for this model), with knowledge from 2 animation rigging classes at the Academy of Art university in San Francisco, and countless meetings with professors. Besides the help from school, Jason Schliefer's books/tutorials have also been helpful. I recommend those at this time.
Lucky008aau 3 years ago