Toucan Rig
Film/TV

Learn how to prepare the Toucan model for rigging. Start with how to set up the skeleton and capture the mesh then how to prepare the guide skeleton, add tags and add other metadata that is used in the components. For the Toucan, you can also set up a groom so that it is embedded in the rig with full animation controls.

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Asset Type
Character Rig
Published
July 12, 2024
Terms of Use
Standard License
Created in
Houdini 20.5
Categories
Character, Feathers
DOWNLOAD RIG [333.1 MB]

CREATED BY

william_harley
WILLIAM HARLEY

I started my career doing lighting, lookdev and VFX in Cape Town. Always looking to streamline the character rigging and animation process I got involved in setting up a rigging tools in houdini and assisting animators to get used to the new tools, I have fallen in love with CFX, building rigs for films, games and cinematics.

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COMMENTS

  • Glenn Butler 5 months ago  | 

    FYI. Toucan_A.png is missing in the textures folder. Awesome network.

  • gregjenings 4 months, 4 weeks ago  | 

    Please also upload the Feather Grooming File.

  • william_harley 4 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

    Thanks Grenn.
    The proxy textures have already been convered and we ended up not using Toucan_A in the material.
    The proxy texture setup is just an example of how you can quickly downres the textures for animation. So not needed for the setup :)

    • Glenn Butler 4 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

      Thanks for the clarification.

  • william_harley 4 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

    Hi Greg, the Groom setup will be in another example file, this is purely about the rig setup.

  • kodra 4 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

    The downloadable file is different from that rig shown in the video. There is no "pose_closed_wing_l_abst" control to control open/closed wing pose.

  • Scratch 4 months, 1 week ago  | 

    I can not find the groom example file that William referes to. Was this already uploaded? If not, would it be possible to get the groom file that Andriy Bilichenko is showing in his Hive-talk? I am very keen on looking into this. Thank you!

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