 Welcome back to the Rig Review and today we're going to take a look at the Cera Rig as you can see here all the controllers on and off and this is part of a looping house or looping depending on where you're from you can see here you can website link in the description of course they have courses and classes you can see you can also buy that rig but other rigs are exclusive to the class they also have lectures like master classes that are coming up so definitely check that out and if you want to see walkthroughs of different rigs I have here blue and looping right there and also other rigs on my animation review website so check that one out if you want to see other walkthroughs and subscribe of course you're gonna not miss any of these and let's get back to that that is the rig these are the controllers and as always let's start bottom to top I'm gonna go with the main controller here and on this one you get scale like that and you have an inner controller and that inner controller also lets you scale you also bend controllers on off you can see this here visible like that you have secondary controllers on off so if I turn this off like that you can see here around the legs there's a lot of stuff in there I'm gonna check these out you also then have face controls on off then you have hair color that you can change like that eye color that you can change maybe should be closer eye color like that and then you got cloth color so you got this outfit some up lens into the next right then it gives you shirts on off also pants on off hair glasses so you can turn these all on and off shoes and socks they squeeze squeeze let's see what that does here go into this view and then you can see that here as it changes some of that deformation and then job in your type is referenced you can go into normal so you can actually select and change a few things so if you need to turn hair on off like that or it's locked like that so you could technically go in here unlock that channel and you can see this it's because of the expressions if you really want to do this I know why you would you can break the connections and then you go in there and turn it on off manually again I don't know what you would but you can also as it's an inner control as I always do you can technically bring this down and now you have this control at a new pivot point if your character is flying around just in case if you want to do that let's get to the shoes we have actually limits double check because they usually have only nerfs on you could have controllers on and you could have surfaces on and on depending on where you work sometimes where is it locators will also turn on controls I'm gonna leave this on just in case because sometimes I miss things that shouldn't be missed but you see there's nothing in the display there's nothing hidden here in terms of visibility but let's go back because I was just checking if you could animate the shoelaces but that is what you get here that's your foot control so if you go up here that is an IK foot of course if I rotate this you can see it's only the foot so if you want to change the knee it's going to be like that and that by the way also has a snap function so then you can do this with your knee you have a twist control and that does the same thing here now if you take the foot here and I go over there you can see how much stretching you have so this is your stretch control on off also the squash on off so depending on what you do how it will squash this you can see what happens here that can be on off you also have soft IK which I like a lot here so if you take this right and you go into here that's the usual thing where like your knees pop so if I do soft IK fully to one and I do this it's a lot softer in terms of how it pops into this I'm a massive fan of what that is doing here's a leg one and leg two that's for your length here let's go back then you got rolls so you got the weight roll so let me just go back here so when you have your roll like this on here you can change how much it influences that top part you got a side roll which is sometimes called banking speak of banking sounds like you can hear a plane here I live close to an airport it's a tiny airport though it's okay you got your heel pivot like that and you got your tip pivot you can see where that is it's actually more from this side here toe pivot is more from the front like that then you have a twist and you can see here the twists the leg like I said so just in case you haven't seen this or you're watching this and you're skipping forward I don't know that's what this is obviously you have that on both feet now you have an extra controller right there this is your icon move control so now you have stuff like that which is really neat when you have let's say a plant and you want to have a bit of a little not a squash but kind of a movement in the ankle for compression I'm a big fan of that then if you go in there there's one more in here that's the stretch rig bend three control as it says here so you can move stuff around like that which is cool which these are all part of bend bend bows whatever different rigs have different names for them that's what you have here then you have this one that's your flappy toe it's like a scale channel is open you can scale actually check yes you can can't always do that can you scale this yes you can that means that this is pretty customizable already and that's that left and right for the feet again you go up here you have bend bows for the knees you're all up here for the thighs as well you can always kind of check like that if you missed anything so far nothing then you have this control here so that's your hip control you can see how much it deforms in the waist and lower stomach area then this one you have another one that's a lot more localized here so that's the ik hip control that also gives you that kind of stretchy translate control and if I do the same thing with this it's more like that right so you have that's how this bends and then if you go up here that's how this one bends so you have lots of options within here that's the wrong one here so like this guy go here that's your root so however you want to change your angle it can be through the roots and then you can use your spine that's your adjuster controller that's from a different angle whoa again here and then you can you have this one you can bend this ski this guy here and this one oh what am I doing I'm just showing you right you can do stuff like that but that's a pose or this one that's your bimbo right there then you have the hip that moves that part of the leg out most weeks have this this little flag here that's your fk switcher so I've switched that over you can see what's going on and then you are in classic not bend over here but here it's your ik fk switch to that control option like I said you have your overall spine control this one does that as like a kind of shape control to make it nice looking right if you want to think that's a bit more like that or more like that versus the bigger ones that change the full orientation if I go back to the roots you can see here there's offsets see that you get an extra controller there to do more shenanigans if I click on here you have sometimes a bit hidden depending on I have lighting on so if you do this just don't see much but you can definitely see all the controllers a lot better I'm going to keep this on anyway you have this control here that you can change your breasts left and right potentially also for breathing if you want depending on how you want to do this this has no scale this guy has a scale so you could do it like that some people also use like a translate and then a counter with the head you know whatever you want but it doesn't have a dedicated breathe controller you can see here scale scale is blacked out here so always kind of check what those controllers give you then let's go you got a bunch here let's go in here see this that looks like the back of the head here that's the hair hair control let me try something but they take this here no it's gonna say can you take the whole hair away you can do that just for now she's in the wind tunnel just so I can see what's in here so we saw this one we saw this one here is another one here this is your your bendy to move stuff in here you have your actual arm controller this is in fk mode here you have your shoulder that goes up so you would do something like that now you can switch to ik and then you have this watch out see now the shoulder is independent but the ik arm stays put you have again your bendies here and you know what instead of constantly clicking on these these are bend controls off all right so we're back to here so that's your ik move control right so you can move it like that just like with the foot so if anybody has like hand plans on a table or something that's pretty neat she like that a lot and you hold on let me just double check no can't scale but this guy you can now this is your elbow and also your elbow snapped just like with the legs so then you can move this around and pin it she has elbow on the table but let's not forget if you move this around this is like a true ik meaning that if I move this arm around the hand is always pointed that way so I need to counter or move that hand with it some rigs like the vixen rig that I will always quote has this built in so if you move this you can switch it and that hand is always oriented to the forearm which I like a lot so there's no countering but also no giveaway that it's an ik arm kind of a fan of that so you got same options here so you can same option as in legs you can stretch or not you got the squash same thing here so bring this in then you can see here the level of squash that's different then you have safe volume here soft ik same thing the length as well and you got the rolls and the rolls are going to be for that hands just like with the foot which is actually pretty neat I gotta say I like this then you got your finger controls so you got your all the way back for this which you can use this here to cup the hand gives you a slight rotate but you can also translate for that but it gives you a bigger control here you can move everything like that and also rotate it if you want you can also scale again it's you can modify this a lot you can take these and do that for controls what it doesn't have let me double check so it translates here you got all these options here sometimes you have controls at the tip of the fingers you don't so some rigs every now and then you can select the hand control then in here it has whatever like fist relax whatever gives you like some base controls or curl where you have a general control here that curls all the fingers this does not have it you're gonna have to select this all separately and do it like that which you would at the end anyway for detail control with a quick blocking it's actually not that bad to have that clearly in both sides because we're talking about arms left and right then we have this here so that one gives you a rotation like this you can also translate and you can also scale whoosh yeah to some degree whoops then we have a a shaper depending on what the angles of the head right then if you go up here that's your overall head control so you can see here the pivots strongly are from that point which you can also scale your head and you can also translate your head here but you saw what it also did here when you have this you can see how much here gets taken with that control so you have your hair right that i have shown before that's your hair control it could take this and now go back to here you have up here that's your hair one control so you can move this away sometimes some controls have like follow parents so i would you would have an option you follow parent off so then you can take this and it would just take the whole thing off not in this case though then we go to this section here that gives you kind of rotation of the lower part of the face like that now the thing is if you take the lower part and you do this it's going to go into your glasses so you can you can't see this because of the hair but if you go over here right you got this control and it pivots from off there but that will give you an option to move the glasses and also obviously remove the glasses and this to me i have because of i have ambient an ambient light in there and if you don't have it it's fully transparent so if you just have ambient an ambient light in there that's what it does anyway go back to this let's zero this out then let me go and open the mouth that is not the mouth this bigger controller is for your mouth let's go up to here now when you open the mouth you can see options here you have drivers for corners jaw this is locked though or you can do something beard scale interesting maybe that's a remnant of something but it's also kind of locked but that is your jaw control that you can translate this you can you can also scale this and then that reveals your tongue controls in there you can move your tongue out you can see what's in there as well i don't quite see controls for the teeth there you go take these out right and you move your teeth i'm gonna show you what i really can do then you have kind of fleshy gum controls in terms of kind of bending depending on you know if someone's lip sync you want to move your teeth around just for better this guy depending sometimes you have something where you don't want to see kind of the lower teeth like that so you might adjust and give this a more of a graphic shape that's what you get for that there are a ton of controls this also comes with the with the picker by the way so you can access all of this because there's obviously a ton that's your jaw this is your chin you can see this you get your squash and stretch of your chin if you want isolated chin control you got a couple here so you have this one you can see move it like that again you can scale if you want then you have one above it's just this shape this one as we saw is the overall bendy this one is the overall lower lip here which you have here as well you have this option and you have this option for or the skin shape you get very localized small ones and if you zoom in you got again another one so you got really a bunch of facial controls it's pretty bonkers let me take this here and close it maybe just a bit more so overall if you want to do let's say a smile it's like that a frown will be like this and then like I said you can adjust this like that you can adjust this like this so if you have like lip like sticky sticky type stuff if you go here you have a zip here but depending what you have you can see how it's still a bit open so if you need to on a specific angle adjust certain things you can do like that you can also scale close stuff like that so you have a bunch a bunch of options let me go back actually again I did this here but let me bring that back so on here besides the zip function for like it or something you have a sneer like that so you don't want to use the smaller controllers you have sneer up and down also right sneer up and low and you have wrinkle that's pretty cool it adds some age and depending on some expressions that's kind of neat I like it here's an overall control that will move the whole thing and is locked and it moves around the the topology of the face which is really neat obviously depending on the face you know on the teeth and stuff you know some issues here but you can do it like that but if you grab it in free form does it like that very cool I like that a lot this let me just double check you can yes you can so let me go back here let's say you have the mouth that's a bit more closed like that you can take this an adult smile like that if you want you know I mean there's some ways where it doesn't have to be with the smaller controllers but you can actually change it with the orientation of the controllers which is pretty cool this one is your overall cheek but if you have a smile you have different versions here of a smile right you can adjust all of this here then this can push up then this can push up this shape if you go up to the lids you can bring up the lids and so on and all of this has extra small controls as you can see there's a bunch of stuff and if I do this again you can see it's better highlighted like that you can really see all the controllers that are at your disposal just pretty bonkers then you got your ear like that which of course you can also scale and just double check there's something here that's for your eye socket let me go over how about this one where you can see it better so you have the outer one that takes everything like this this will give you also a blend to it later the blink so you have a standard blink if you want you only use the lids and an auto lids so if you do this you can see how the lids are following but if I grab the outer one and say auto lids see this fully or not so full we'll see the difference in how much the lids are moving which is cool I like that definitely a lot let's go to the eye control later the inner one is kind of the as it says there's the inner part you can see this here moves that which you can also scale interestingly so with this same thing scale or not then you have like I said you got the lids here that's your shape here for the skin but you can also select this and move this up and down then you have your like overall eyebrow so on there you go moves everything around and you have an option here that is through channel not through a translate interesting okay but you can do that then if you want to make it more separate you would have this you can bring in this guy for some frown you can see some nice skin folding here that's cool can you scale you can't you have a small one to make more adjustable shapes here same with this guy this is obviously on both sides now there's an overall nose controller where you can do this there's nothing here in the middle huh sometimes you have an overall controller that kind of bends the whole nose but I guess maybe since this is a smaller nose that's what you get here so you can bend it like this and move it over if you want also scale if you want so I remember my dog once got bitten by a bee and then that was his nose per guy then you got a nose tip like that which obviously also scale I really love rigs where you can scale everything like that then you have nostrils so a you can move it like that don't forget there's always an option here so you have sneer if I select just this nose controller not to what I want here nothing here let me just double check there's always something hidden every now and then on controller see that like this mouth one has a roll and also puff which actually reminds me probably the cheek too huh inflates there you go so never forgets to check here wrinkles we showed you that one some locked features then you got this one up here so that's going to be your upper squash and stretch directional to some degree this is your the format I showed before with no options in here just always kind of check hair color that you can change that seems to be overwritten by the overall controller maybe here you have your eyes like that also changes eye color which I'm going to assume yeah it's not changing it's probably the overall main controller here that had all of that it's probably overwriting potentially all of this you have separate eye movement like this which also gives you pupil right and iris the overall eye shape there is no eye highlight some rigs have like an eye highlight here you can also move around that exists as well but other than that you got a bunch of like controllers to shape all of this here it's very very cool and like I said hair that's a lot of hair here that you can move like that there's no like individual hair strand it's just like a bigger block of hair one thing that I wanted to add and I'm just like an insert as I was doing the pose for my thumbnail the cool thing about this and this seems obvious but when you select two controllers and you move it like this both arms are moving in the same direction some rakes I'm going to make this on purpose and break this if you move it not with the outer control but even if you would use this controller the controls don't move in the same direction that's a massive pain when you have to quickly block something out so props for this rig for doing that and if you are building a rig make sure that your rig is doing the same thing so to throw that in there as a plus for this rig and as a heads up for anybody building rigs I think if I be picky I would say it would be cool if you could yes you can scale and do a bunch of stuff like that but it would be cool to have also controller here unless I'm missing something but I don't see it here so on different sides a controller here would be cool just you know you you're going to grab glasses from here maybe the back the front here maybe here and here you know depending on where character will grab it like some more controls would be cool but also it would be neat to get control here to close these guys right you're going to fold in your glasses I think if if you already have a prop and it's there to use I would go a bit further what you could do right you can't select this so you will go to that middle controller and say or is it the out control you already forget I did not it was in here geotype normal right so grab those glasses let me just see okay you would have to cut this you could probably go into modeling and I'm going to separate this and now you have that right the pivot is somewhere else so you can modify center pivot there you go so you can go in there and then change your pivot and move this around here you can snap it you know I'm going to make this very very messy here because we know but anyway if you have this here and do it like that your pivot is obviously still going to be from back here but anyway that could be an option now you can see now where this would break I mean as it should I'm completely destroying this whole setup but if you wanted to redo this you can take those glasses separate all that stuff out make your own controllers in a reparent hierarchy wise how is this in the outliner this guy is here glass control you mean so and then your glasses are in here glasses the full geometry you mean we can re-rig this and re-jig all that stuff why not that could be something in a future update to add we kind of cool and then since you only have cloth you know giving your pants along a skirt stuff like that I'm always a fan of just options instead of modeling yourself and having to take time make the time or take the time to do that it's kind of cool but you know these are picky wish lists I think overall it's super cool I've seen a bunch of animation clips with her it's again it's a very appealing rig it can do a bunch of stuff it's really well raked so there you go that is your rig in action again with the controllers it's very cool you can see all these how I like that I saw a bunch of animation with her like it's very flexible it's a really cool rake it's very appealing definitely check out what you can see on a lupin or lupin house their classes the website of different rakes is super cool and that's that if you want to see more reviews feel free to subscribe so you don't miss any of those videos the usual youtube pitch for the algorithm like and subscribe but that's that I'm going to leave you and hopefully see you in another clip