New basic toon character rigged

Hi everyone :smiley: Ive made a toon character for those who want to start animating. It has basic controls is easy to use and is cute :smiley:
The rig is far to be finished but functional. I plan to keep working on it and will post the updates as soon as I can.
You can find it at my new blog . Don’t forget to comment your experiences with it, as its a wip every comment sugestion or critic will be wellcomed.
Here the new Blender friend Donky!
Since my friend’s server seems to be broken I added the file into a free file hostin… crappy but works.http://www.filefactory.com/file/61da6e/n/Donkey001_rar
http://www.cjd-total.com.ar/davidomatic/screeshot.jpg
Newer version 01-08-2008

Hey, he looks great! He’ll probably work great with some Shrek sound clips. Thanks!

Awesome work. i like the style.

Hey guys thanks! Ill be happy if you find it useable . Just remember help me improve it telling me what it need to be improved removed or redone, or whatever you like to tellme.

i love this character!. it’s amazing!

Looks great!

But you posted in the wrong forum, this belongs in either focused critique or WIP

screens look good, I agree it might fit better in another forum, like finished projects though.
I’ll have a look at it, looks like one of those oldskool mikey characters.

Well, if a new Mancandy came out I think they’d post it in News and Discussion! (Awesome looking rig, can’t wait to try it out)

Could not download the file - problems with the host server ?

dan

Hey!!! nice!!! I’ll try it and I’ll let you know :ba:

Think you should give it with some animation test, dont you think??? :evilgrin:

I appologize for the download problems… I added a new link in the first post :smiley:

Wow there - that guy has great personality. Great expression.

As some of you said this is a work in progres so next post will be in the respective forum :smiley:
By now I leave you a little animation I made to test the rig.
http://www.vimeo.com/1303285

Very Nice Toon Character. Very nice.

Nice animation. The character could have crouched over a bit more…since it appeared to be sneaking…but an excellent demonstration of the rig.

Can you lipsync it? Some example?
Can you Puppeteer it? Like in DAZ3D?

Nice character!!!

can i use it for comercial purposes lol

Wow, hey, thanks! I’d probably go over and study the set-up here. Thanks. :slight_smile:

Hi Dav, I really like this rig – it’s straightforward to use and all the controls look easy to locate. The only thing I have noticed in the 10 minutes I’ve been playing with it is the eyebrows don’t appear to work (up and down). Missing from the rig (and really important I think) is good shoulder control – I would really like to be able to shrug Donkey’s shoulders. This looks like it could be a very useable cartoon rig – I will be glued to your blog for updates – brilliant stuff.

Cheers

Ps, would be great to have one solver to use the future IK FK function to maintain the simplicity of animating - to see what I mean go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO2TIdy2ymU

Can you make a tutorial on how to animate this character?
And how to lipsync it!
Sure Walk-Cycles are good - but there is a need also of Talk-cycles=lipsynced sound.,.,
:eek:
Thanks in advance,