Electra Rig H20
Film/TV , Gamedev

There is a new Electra Rig for Houdini 20.5. Only use this rig if you are working in Houdini 20.

Learn how the Electra character was set up using the APEX rigging tools. This scene file shows you the basics of organizing character elements, using and creating reusable rig components and assembling animator-friendly scenes. There are also nodes for creating Locators and a Reverse Foot Setup.

This file was shown as part of the H20 Rigging HIVE presentation by Esther Trilsch.

This file shows you how to rig the Electra character. If you are an animator that wants to learn how to Pose and Keyframe the Electra test geometry then go to the following LESSON.

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Asset Type
Scene File | HIP
Published
Nov. 7, 2023
Terms of Use
Standard License
Created in
Houdini 20
Categories
Character
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CREATED BY

esttri
ESTHER TRILSCH

Esther Trilsch is a Senior Character TD at SideFX. She started her career as a character TD apprentice at Walt Disney Animation Studios working on Zootopia, and worked at RiseFX as a Character Supervisor and Pipeline TD. Combining her focus for both the creative side of anatomy and deformation, as well as the technical side of RnD, she found her sweet spot in the building of innovative structures and tools for character workflows.

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COMMENTS

  • eddishin 1 year, 1 month ago  | 

    Thank you, Esther Trilsch.

  • Max Rose 1 year, 1 month ago  | 

    Super helpful, cheers!

  • sboris 1 year, 1 month ago  | 

    Thx Esther for your efforts.
    Are you secretly Electra?? lol

  • mushogenshin 1 year, 1 month ago  | 

    Hi Esther, thanks a lot for your efforts! I saw two stashed component scripts (for the locator and reversefoot) which I cannot seem to crack open to see the implementation details. I'd like to examine more closely what you did in those setups. Could you please kindly help?

    Cheers,

  • mushogenshin 1 year, 1 month ago  | 

    Ah, silly me, I found it! They are all visible in the APEX Network View. Many thanks, again!

  • esttri 1 year, 1 month ago  | 

    ha yes, since graphs are in the end just geometry to can directly edit that geometry on a stash SOPs or even better on the APEX Edit Graph SOP

  • iamjaden 1 year ago  | 

    I wonder what the prefered workflow from Apex to Unreal would be? Do you have any suggestions @Esttri? Thank you very much for your effort! Regards, Philipp.

  • sutcliffe 11 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

    Mushogenshin - I tried to decipher how the reverse foot rig worked by adding an unpack folder and checking the APEX Network but that seemed to show the Network for the whole rig. Is there a way to just quickly see the relevant nodes for the just reverse foot rig?

  • patar 8 months, 2 weeks ago  | 

    hi , i think the reverse foot part is broken on the newer build of houdini can you guys check?

  • patar 8 months, 2 weeks ago  | 

    also how can u even considered this as already rigged? theres no ikfk blend on foot and hand? i know that theres helper locator to achieve a more similiar effect of FK on the hand . but the animation doesnt create an arc like fk would.... it creates straight line. to rig the character u have to check with your animator is the rig suffice or not. are they happy and easy to animate or not. its terrible to animate only in ik... or only in fk ...thats why it needs to blend between ik fk. maybe look at how other people rig in their own software, and try to apply this in houdini. the rigger cant decide the rig is good enough by their own, much like the cook doesnt get to decide if their food is edible or not.. check with the animators.. as the cook ask opinion from whom eating their dishes. please do a better example of a finished rig

  • shun2522 6 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

    Thank you for providing a wonderful sample file! It's helpful to understanding creating rigs in APEX .

    In the file, reverse_feet node seems not working properly, but so we can bypass it and we can see rest of all works fine. (In Houdini Version 20.0.688)
    It would definitely be great if Revese feet nodes were fixed in the latest Houdini.

  • NMVHS 6 months, 2 weeks ago  | 

    How to switch between ik and fk for arms and legs?

  • youngzo34 5 months, 2 weeks ago  | 

    In the file, reverse_feet node seems not working properly, but we can bypass it and we can see rest of all works fine.

  • Benra 5 months, 1 week ago  | 

    How hard can it be for the developer at sidefx to fix the reverse foot graph that is broken in the latest build? I realise 20.5 is just about to drop, but seems a shame file doesn’t work out of the box… annd what if it’s broken there too. Apex is enticing annd exciting, I realise it’s still in beta.. maybe this is an easy fix. Takes a while to even want to dive deep into rig graphs .

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