 I taught a creature class at the Academy of Art which is done and I'm currently teaching a creature class at Animation Mentor and the thing about creature classes is that a lot of the creatures and the rigs that you can get are very realistic but a lot of the jobs out there are for cartoony styles and there are not that many cartoony rigs out there and one of the things that I recommend to my students is to add cartoony creatures onto your reel as you look at the amount of movies that feature creatures is really something that you should take advantage of but then I get the questions from the students well there are not that many cartoony rigs out there well it's very easy you take an existing rig you add the eye rigs you change the textures and you're done and this is where this clip comes into play so let's go into my eye and I can show you how you can take any realistic looking creature rig and make it cartoony looking and the example that I use was the Diablo rig by Truong and that is this one you can find on the animation beefy site I will have a link in description and the eyes that I used were these so it's a combination of a rig and this but you can grab any separate eye rig that you can find you can also take eyes out of an existing rig but like this one because he has eyebrows as well so now that you look at this creature you can see a lot of cool stuff a lot of cool textures but it's not very cartoony looking so what do I do you open up the textures and you can see what's in there you can just assign new textures or you can also be clean and just delete whatever you have if you do that you can see that this happens to your rig all the textures are gone and but that's okay so in order to get this look I'm gonna sign new colors so I want one for the body so let's just call this body and I'm gonna make it the same color like in my example more or less and I'm using a blend texture just because I want some shininess I'm gonna use another one and that one is going to be the tongue and this is off-screen but I'm going to the photo and I'm picking out the color of the tongue I'm going back and forth and again you can use this manually but because I have this and I want to replicate this I'm gonna choose what I have then I'm also going to use a color for the nails and you can always turn down the specular color you can do whatever you want to do here so I'm gonna do nails and this is fairly white like in this case I can just make this white and specular color also maybe bump that up a little bit and then you have those little horns on top and on the tail that's a different color you can use again whatever material you want and I'm gonna go in there I'm pretty much pick up what I have all right so I'm gonna put these colors here this is my dragon and of course if you keep the textures will be easier to see if you feel like this is a problem just select everything assign the default Lambert and you can see what's actually going on here oh did not select all of them so I want the body I'm gonna select this and apply the body shader then I want the teeth now sometimes you have geometry pieces and you can select them one by one in this case it's a bit tedious so you can go into the outliner and see what's going on here it's also a bit of a pain and you can also use a name selection so I want to select everything the star that has the name teeth and all those numbers I can go in there and I'm gonna do star I want to select everything until the double colon and then T and then another star which is gonna select everything and again you can see this if you open on the outliner it has only selected all those pieces and this by hand will be quite a pain you can see this is the selection so I also created a tooth shader a sign of material go back and here we are now I want to do the same thing with the nails which are called horns here so you can do star double colon horn another star and what are you gonna see that is gonna select all of this right I'm gonna go back in here gonna select the nails like such go back to textures and you can see this but I do want to give those horn on the top a different color so I'm just gonna select all of these little horns deselect this and you can see I have only deselected so there are many ways how to select this through the naming or just direct say a selection say horns and then there you go and then last but not least at the tongue go back in there select the tongue there you go to now you have these colors more or less I can go in there and give this a bit more of a lighter orangey color but again it's completely up to you so basically that's the rig but as you can see something is missing the eyes and that's the big thing so just changing the colors is not gonna make this cartoonish it's gonna make it a bit more simple looking so now I'm gonna import those eyes and then as you go down let me collapse my outliner you can see all so that's the rig here and you got the overall eye controller and brought them up but you have to do show nerves surfaces and put the textures on and here are your eyes silly looking but already kind of funny I want the lids of the eyes will have the same color so you go back in here and you can find the eyelid mesh here's one and here's one go back in here and select the same body color and there you go so now what I would do you can see all the options here in terms of scale and then you can do the blinking of the eyes I would not go in there and place them and you can do whatever you want to do with the size and placement like I said let's say we are happy with somewhat of this placement right now what you can do if you go back here and show the curves you select the controller and besides the unibrow option if you want you also have placement turn this on and you have extra controllers that show up and then you can place these again outside or a bit lower so I'm gonna place these a bit to the outside maybe you want to keep where that ridges here of this rig turn this off still feels a bit low I will probably go with just a bit higher and maybe a bit more like that so now that you placed it you gotta find either a joint or controller so in this case you can take this and this is your head controller there's nothing else underneath there's nothing where there's a subcontroller select this control select this not the top note but the controller of this eye and say constrain parent and now and you go back in there you can just select the head you can see everything moves with it and go to the root and you can see this is following so now that you have that you can do something where you can change the eyebrows you can bring these just a bit lower to the face open that mouth change the head down a bit take the controller make it look somewhere else grab the lower eyelids to kind of replicate what I did here to some degree but there you go I know it completely looks like you just added a little eyeballs to a rig but if you do something like this where it's just a bit further away all you can do now is concentrate on a cartoony pose and it's all about the bottom mechanics that will still give you cartoony eyes and you can do some basic lip sync and caricature the movements and it's all with a rig that now looks like this instead of this and that's it it's a simple thing again this might be tricky if it's a close-up you can see those you know added on eyeballs but for a faraway bottom mechanics shot where you have a little bit of Muppet style lip sync you can still go in there and do cartoony style animation where really where you just take the movements caricature them stylize the movements and concentrate more on a cartoony approach for creature animation and just by changing the textures adding those eyeballs or whatever eyes that you can find you can tweak any realistic looking rig into something cartoony there you go nice and simple I hope this works and I hope you can use this and create some cool new animations and speaking of which if you want to do that with me and you want me to help you and create something awesome as always I have workshops and the workshops are always open for sign up link in description with all information just email me you can start at any time speaking of time you're still watching this thank you so much thank you for your patience feel free to hit the like button feel free to subscribe and hit that bell button so you get notifications for all of my uploads other than that I will say thank you and I'll see you in my next clip