Piers Bishop

Long story short, we had to rig a robot as a small project.

 

Since I didn't think that having a simply rigged humanoid robot would be either satisfying or interesting, I thought I'd try to have as many little parts as possible, that wouldn't be animated with controllers, but simply with sliders on a side control pannel.

 

I decided to go for this cute design that would allow me to densly pack as many elements as I wanted. So in addition to the classical leg IKs and the flexible antenna, I added a "zoom out" for the visor, along with a diaphragm aperture control, eye color control, visor delay position, posisbility to open the back box, and possibility to choose whether the cartridge is parenetd to the body or the world.

 

There are also two demo videos showing how to use the rig, below.

 

Credits :

Everything : me.

 

Software :

Maya