Cartman style character for animation [vids][pics][blend]

I was thinking of doing an animation with some characters from Southpark, and a few others from a different cartoon.

I haven’t quite finished Cartman, I still have to give him eyelids so he can blink, and set up some more keys so he can eat cheesy poofs and run his fat arse mouth, but I thought I would post some pics and the blend out here so that other people can play with it, take it, keep it and maybe give me some feedback.

MISC RIG INFO
It is a very simple model and rig, other than the planned animation the other thing I was doing was playing around with using objects as bones. Layer 1 has the character, layer 2 has the bone-objects and I guess it’s 11 that has the armature.

I hid/moved the leg bones to get them out of the way. Plus, his belly can shake independently with the belly shaker bone, heheh.

The legs are stretchy, but he is a short fat kid, so it’ll look funny if they stretch too much. He has IK arms too, but again, they are short and fat.

The body bone(looks like a shirt) will move everything but the feet and the feet and body bones are parented to the master bone. Also, right now, his hat doesn’t come off, but I may change that.

You can bobble the ball on his hat. Most of the bones are independent, so you can move or rotate them freely.

http://www.stratt.com/brad/cartman1t.pnghttp://www.stratt.com/brad/cartman2t.pnghttp://www.stratt.com/brad/cartman3t.pnghttp://www.stratt.com/brad/cartmanrigt.png

Here is cartman.blend, please feel free to do with it as you will, no restrictions from me.:smiley: Now go bake me some pie!

you really need to work on the body, he is WAY to sqaure.

I tried to make him a bit lumpier, and I rounded out the shoes, not sure how the spheres went so square, probably too much squishing. I’ve updated the blend with the improvements, here are a couple screenshots.

http://www.stratt.com/brad/cartmanimp1t.pnghttp://www.stratt.com/brad/cartmanimp2t.png

I added some eyelids, and tweaked/added some more shapekeys and modelled the body a bit more. I just updated the same blend file on the server, so this link and the first one are the same, although updated.

Here is the link

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Thanks for donating this character :slight_smile:

A little animation test :

Mike

No freaking way that is the same character, that is awesome Mike_S.

*EDIT - I had to edit this because I broke one of my cardinal rules of posting, I try not to speak unless I can add to the conversation, or to help. By my post, what I meant was that I hadn’t animated the character yet, and Mike_S’s test was amazing to me, making me think it was a different, better, character. Great work Mike_S, I now see that I do need to add hair, and modify the rig to include the hat as well, and I will change the brow colors and include them with the improvements I have planned. I’ll post a reply once I make those modifications.

At least I think the rig is done…

I added hair, it is boned too(HAHA), what I did for the test animation was to move the hat off screen and then when I was putting the hat on his head, I just keyframed the hair at the last frame it would appear in, and then in the next frame, moved it offscreen and keyframed it there. Not optimal, I’m sure, but it works.

The link for the blend in the previous posts is the latest version, I just changed the file on the server rather than have different versions. There are a lot more shape keys on the face now too. I didn’t add any drivers though because I’ve found it easier to scrub the audio and just use the sliders to lip-sync, maybe it’s just me.

http://www.stratt.com/brad/cartman.blend[1.2MB]

http://www.stratt.com/brad/fatboy_animtest.avi[321kb]

Also on Youtube since I’ve been having awful server trouble. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkZLU_wdk_Y

Ok, that last anim test was not very good, all I did was move some bones around and play with the keys a little. Here is a better one with the infamous “I would never let a woman kick my a##, if she tried anything, I’d be like, HEY, you get your bi@$# a## back in the kitchen and make me some piie!”

I think it turned out ok, made me laugh at least.

http://www.stratt.com/flv/jscript/movies.php?url=brad_make_me_some_pie.flv

http://www.stratt.com/brad/pie.avi

giggidy, giggidy, alright.

*edit - The youtube link should work fine, but my links may take a second for the ip address to propagate, damn ISP, grrr.