Is there a way to do this kind of rig in Blender?

[polynut]

Fortunately there is an addon that do something similar here it’s call ghost IK ;

ghost_IK (virtual Inverse Kinematics bone/physic bone IK/C++)

I’m developing this Inverse Kinematics system to control character armature bones more easily and more effcient It don’t need to add any extra controller bone or constraint or modifier,just use the deformed bone itself to control. though now it’s not fully implment the features that classic IK has. but finally it’s features will be more than the classic IK.and then I can get rid of the annoying traditional IK settings. it has two mode,(1:manul IK(two-ik\tri-ik\spline-ik), 2:dynamic physic …

Regarding the hood rigging i was aiming at blend shape since it would be the easiest way to do it.