Videoclip for "Unexpect"

• Modeling, Rigging, Texturing and Animation using Maya
• Animation composited over live action sequences using Boujou 3D tracking

Functionalities & Technical specifications

(sorted by character subset)

Leg Controllers

• Each leg has a special "reverse foot roll" system to facilitate foot aiming while landing and walking
• 6 Cluster controls over a SplineIK joint chain
  • Allows smooth binding of junctions and rigid binding of leg segments
  • Allows the animation of all intermediate segments of the leg with only 1 controller each
• "Global Leg start" orientation controller to rotate the starting angle of all legs together
• "Global Leg End" controller to position or rotate all legs together
• All 6 legs can be manipulated at once or individually

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Wing Controllers

• A generic XYZ rotating controller for the main position of the wings
• A "WingCurve" attribute to enable the curling of wings up and down
• Driven with a "high-res" SplineIK joint chain
• All 4 wings can be manipulated at once or individually with identically named attributes and identically oriented controllers

Antenna Controllers

• Similar to the Wing Control
• A generic XYZ rotating controller for the main position of the antennae
• An "AnntennaCurl" attribute to enable the curling of the antennae base
• An "AnntennaTipCurl" attribute to enable the curling of the antennae Tip
• Driven with a "high-res" SplineIK joint chain
• Both antennaes can be manipulated at once or individually with identically named attributes and identically oriented controllers

Body Controllers

• Head controller for the XYZ rotations connected through multiple neck bones for a softer mesh deformation
• AbdomenCurl attribute to curl the end of the abdomen up and down
• AbdomenSide2Side to move the end of the abdoment left and right
• The abdomen is driven with a "high-res" SplineIK joint chain

Eye Controllers

• 1 controller to rotate the eyes in every direction
• Each eye is animated inversely thru the expression editor

Mouth Controllers

• 2 attributes on the head controller to pinch and twist the mandibles

Legend

• Main Body bones in green
• "Reverse Foot Roll" bones in magenta
• Spline IK systems
  • Low resolution "control bones" to accelerate positioning during animation (in yellow)
  • High resolution "skinned bones" to smooth the deformation of the mesh (in red)
• Controllers
  • Normal controllers in Blue
  • "Non character-set" controllers in dark blue