WEEK 1 - Introduction and spine rigging

• Introduction & welcome What makes an advance rig?
• Tidiness is key, lets make a hierarchy
• Place all base joints first and understand why
• Learn a proper naming convention Make a global controller
• Set up the spine joints and talk about advanced and normal spine

 

WEEK 2 - Limbs Arms and Legs

• Illustrate the theory of blending joints
• Replace leg joints and make sure they sit correctly
• Understanding the nodes used for IKFK Blending
• Legs IKFK & Arms IKFK

 

WEEK 3 - Foot and Fingers

• Placing Joints - talk about good and bad practise
• Make FK Fingers 
• Understanding Nodes
• Make Custom Attributes (Bend, Twist, Side, Spread, Fist)
• Set up foot rolls and pivots

 

WEEK 4 - Basic Head Set up (Not Face Rigging)

• Place neck, head, jaw, eye and ear joints
• Make The FK Controls
• Understanding Aim Constraints for head and eyes
• Adding Clavicles
• Clean Up Hierarchy

 

WEEK 5 - Block Skinning and Pitfalls

• Modelling Low-polygon cage
• Blocking in our base skinning,
• Talk about pitfalls layered joints and common mistakes
• Why do we bock weights?

 

WEEK 6 - Upgrading 1

• Lower Limbs Twist Chains 
• Learn how to read angles 
• Bendy limbs
• Squash and stretch limbs
• Space switches and props

 

WEEK 7 - Upgrading 2

• Simple Head Squash / Stretch + adding Eyelids 
• Painting Bendy Skin Joint Influences 
• Copying Weights From Full Body Cage To High Model
• Add Corrective Blendshapes 
• Understanding Angle Between Node  

 

WEEK 8 - Finalising The Character

• Correcting Common Mistakes
• Stretchy Spine 
• Neutralise and Combine Corrective Shapes
• Auto Polevector Movement 
• Clean Up For Animators