The Rat Project

[tbenefi33]

I'm working on a rat project where I'm gonna freak out my mom's friend who is terror fie of rats. She lives with my Uncle and they got a pool thinking about having a bunch of rats around the pool or in the pool when they take there little trip I'll make the clip of the rats in the pool and send it to there email and say something like look what was in yall's yard....LOL Yap I got to much time on my hands...

No rats will be harm making this project all CGI.

 

any way here the model of the rat I'm working on.

 

 

 

[TheSpleen]

Great start

[robcat2075]

I'll be interested to see what you do with this. A rat woudl be a good "hair" test project, although if the camera is far enough away you wouldn't need the hair.

[tbenefi33]

I worked on the ears, and legs, those feet are going to be tough, there like little fingers with claws.

 

 

[Walter Baker]

Sounds like a great plan to me, would love to see it when done.

[John Bigboote]

Sounds like a perfect place to use PFhoe, like in Xtaz's test!

[tbenefi33]

I got the rat done still doing some tweaking though

I'm gonna make a few different color ones

I tried to add hair to him but the control point was to far apart

and didn't look right for some reason, I'll try it again tough.

 

 

 

[tbenefi33]

Having a problem with a foot bone one foot will move fine when right back foot bone moves the left foot bone moves same thing for the front all the control point match up hmmmmmm.

Oh yah I changed color to the old classic gray rat with that rough scale look to him.

 

 

[NancyGormezano]

when right back foot bone moves the left foot bone moves

 

You probably have the CP's of the left foot assigned to the right foot's bone

 

nice rat

[tbenefi33]

Thank you NancyGormezano

 

 

I checked the cp's and redone the whole bone rig bummer still doing it. Break time think I'll ride down to the river.

 

 

 

[NancyGormezano]

Very creative but very strange hierarchy you've got in your rig.

 

1) you've made your left rear foot a child of your right rear foot - so when you move your right foot, the left rear foot will move. Same oddness with your front feet.

 

2) usually the tail bones are children of the body. The way you have it, the body is a child of the tail bones & when you move the tail - your body, head, etc will move as well.

 

I'm not sure where to send you to find out about very basic rigging concepts, (nor which model would be good to inspect to see a sample suitable rig for a 4 legged creature) - but Holmes has done some great tutorials on building your first rig (human type).

 

here's the first in the series: http://amfilms.hash.com/video/196/Building...irst-Rig-Part-1

[tbenefi33]

Thank you NancyGormezano I'll Check the link out but I got a major problem now

My Laptop keeps restarting and I may have to re download xp again and start all

over again.

[tbenefi33]

Ok back in business now I can finishes my rat. Happy Camper now.

[tbenefi33]

I got the rat done still tweaking him though I may change his eye color that pink not getting it.

 

 

 

 

 

I need to raise his ears a little bit kind of hard to see.

[tbenefi33]

Here a short test of the rat using pfhoe pro and my uncle James I caught sleeping in the lounge chair

 

I need to figure out how to keep the rat still in one place and add lighting to the rat so you can see the texture on the rat.

 

 

 

Uncle_James_and_Rat_3b.mov

 

 

Its kind of quick.

[tbenefi33]

Still tinkering with the rat I added some hair on him all you can see it little black spots and a few long strains of hair, I need to make the hair height higher and density larger or something to cover the full the body hmmmmmm