Flour Sack

[fae_alba]

Starting to get back into the swing of things, after a busy summer (wish it weren't over though!), new granddaughter, and tons of work around the house. Before I jumped into trying to animate Papa Bear, I figured I'd have a go at the ol' flour sack exercise.

 

Here's the model with a first pass of rigging. I'll start some test posing tomorrow.

 

 

[robcat2075]

It is tough doing a good flour sack in CG.

[fae_alba]

It is tough doing a good flour sack in CG.

 

The modeling was definitely more of a struggle than I thought it would be. Started out with the mentality of "it's a sack, how hard can it be?" Did one model, rigged it, and then started a walk cycle and realized that there just wasn't enough there to convey life. So back to the modeling window i went. I think the current rig still may need some work, but I'm going to attempt some basic poses and a simple walk cycle to see if that is true or not. Only time will tell.

[robcat2075]

Rigging a CG sack to have all the flexibility of a hand drawn sack is really hard.

[fae_alba]

Rigging a CG sack to have all the flexibility of a hand drawn sack is really hard.

 

No kidding. I just realized I needed to add more back bones in order to get the range of motion I wanted.

 

[robcat2075]

The five-bone IK spine in TSM2 is very handy

[Rodney]

I like the look of him.

[fae_alba]

Learning to walk is scary. Our lowly flour sack tries to take his first step.

 

first_try.mp4

[robcat2075]

[pixelplucker]

I had some dollar bills I tried that with, similar to the sack. I ended up adding many more splines to the model so I could add more bones. It helped but definitely not easy.

Had similar issue with my piggy bank pig.