Shoulder joints rigging and animating problem

Support Animation and Rigging
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Hello everyone,

Does anyone know how to rig a character in such a way that the shoulders deform in a normal way in all normal poses?

I have created a Character model that has a short sleeve shirt for an upper body with arms. I have applied a armature skeleton and added vertex groups and weights but I can not get the shirt mesh to deform in a normal way at the shoulders. In front view with the character facing the view I can move the arms up and down like he is doing jumping jacks and the shoulders look okay. When I extend the arms out in front of my character and move them upward the shoulders do not deform in a normal way, there are all kinds of creases and ugly folds in the mesh at the shoulders.

I would greatly appreciate any help in this matter.
Are there any good complete body rigging tutorials out there?
Does anyone have a Blend file that has a good working shoulder rig that they can send to me for a reference?

My email address is [email protected]

Thanks in advance

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Hi!

I’m having the same problems as you. I have this low poly character on which I test rigging methods and the shoulder keeps being an issue.

If you find something, let us know.

I’ll continue to do tests.

Dani

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I have found out through experimenting that the shoulder joints look and deform a lot better when you model the limbs (arms) in such a way that the joint part of the limb (elbows and shoulders) is as close to a perfect circle as possible.

If anyone knows of a more flexible and convienient way of doing this please post it.

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yea, circle deformation is easier to calculate, creates less artifacts.

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Depending on which range of motion you want your charater to have, try using examples from the way a raglan sleeve is constructed (a baseball tee). Also, remember…You can construct many models of the same character…all with different skeletons and ranges of motion.