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You can see we get a nice clean shape on our neutral cylinder here, but when you look at our posed cylinder, you get this line break here, then you get a straight line here, so it's very segmented and it's hard to get as clean and as appealing of a deformation. Because this is a more neutral pose, right? This is more of a.like a posed-pose, right? And it effects things like bending, right? You can see here if I adjust this slider, they have the same bend deformer on them, but one's just initially shaped differently than the other. If you have the ability to send things back to modeling, I would encourage you to do that, to get something kind of like this, as straight as possible. So when you get a model from a modeler maybe the spine is kind of curved, arched back a little bit too much. When you get a spine modeled, you know our spines naturally are not straight, we have a curve in our back, things like that. And so this example kind of, is an illustration for what I would see a lot in spines. So these things all play a role in how your character will be deformed. There is the pose of the character, like the default fit pose that you're going to be binding to, there is the topology of the character, if there's enough topology, and also the spacing of the topology is really important. As far as your model goes, there's like three things that effect how your character will be able to be deformed. So to start, I'm going to bring in this really simple model that kind of just illustrates a point I want to make. So before we even get into any sort of skinning, I'm going to talk a little bit about model preparation, because this actually plays a huge role in how your character will deform. So, how your character deforms is extremely important.

But really that's kind of the most important part of rigging, in my opinion, because you can have the most technically sound rig out there, but if you deform.when you animate it and it deforms and it looks like crap, your rig's going to be judged as being as crap. And a lot of people struggle with that, there's not a lot of resources on doing skinning and stuff like that. And that's a fun part of rigging, but there's a whole other artistic side to rigging, which is called skinning. You know the IK, the constraints, the spline IKs, all that stuff. I mean the art side of rigging, right? Everyone when they think of-especially that Charles Roland guy, he always thinks that-the art of rigging is in the technical side of things.

When I say the art of rigging, I don't mean like, that rigging as a whole is an art, even though I think it is. How's it going? My name's Bret Bays and I'm going to be talking to you guys about the art of rigging. Hi everybody out here, internet, everybody on Slack.

C4d subdivision surface weighting shortcut