A Time Apart: Rosa RIG COMPLETE!!!!!

So today and last night I have been finishing off Rosa's rig by doing her lateral mouth and eyebrow blendshapes! I am so happy to say that she is complete! That's not all my characters complete I still have one more to do (Indoor Fred) which shouldn't take me too long to completely finish considering I'm transferring most of the rigging from the outdoor version of Fred.

A Time Apart: Doris and Rosa Mouth Rigs and Extra Facial Controls

These screenshots demonstrate the mouth rig and extra facial controls are completed and working correctly, however, the lateral mouth blendshapes are not done yet. I decided to do the extra facial controls before the blendshapes because I knew roughly what to do without having to look back at the tutorial video and felt I could achieve more today by doing it in this order.

Left to do: Lateral mouth movements and eyebrow blendshapes. I'm not sure yet if I'm going to give my characters sticky eyes, (where the eyelid moves slightly with the eyes) and the squash and stretch because of time mainly.

A Time Apart: Rosa Facial Rigging - Head Controls/Cheek thinning/Blink CTRLs/Eye Look/Tongue

I've caught Rosa up to the same progress as Doris, Rosa took a little longer as I had to skin her eyelashes as well, so far so good and onward with Doris's mouth rig.

A Time Apart: Today's Progress - 01/02/2019

Today has been a fairly productive day! I've been modelling what indoor (poor condition) Fred will look like. He has longer scruffier hair, messed up collars and part of his undershirt hanging out untucked - I will be relying heavily on textures to make it completely obvious his poor state, I plan to fill the hole between collar and neck but I don't know the best way to do this because of the UV mapping and skinning.

 I have also created the coat rigs for both Rosa and Doris meaning Rosa's body is animation ready - time to move on to the head for Rosa, I've started setting up body controls for Doris which will be finished tomorrow.

A Time Apart: Rosa Body Rigging

Today I have completely rigged Rosa's body, tomorrow I hope to have Doris's completed and both of their coat rigs ready to start doing facial rigging - I'm not quite sure how to rig Rosa's hair as of yet.

A Time Apart: Rosa Body Skinning

Today I've put the rivets on Doris and skinned Rosa's body except for the coat, I tried to skin Doris's coat but I was having the same problem before with Fred so I will get help for this tomorrow.

On Rosa I was struggling to make the belt on the back of her coat follow the rig properly, skinning and wrapping made it distort horribly - in the end what worked was the rivet script!

Doris's buttons working with rivet script.

A Time Apart: Doris and Rosa Skeletons

I forgot to post when I did this but I made a start to rigging/skinning Rosa and Doris, here are their skeletons ready to bind.

A Time Apart: Teeth and Tongue Modelling for Fred, Doris and Rosa

Teeth, tongue and gums modeled ready to become part of the rig, whilst I was doing Fred's I did Doris's and Rosa's ready for when I rig them. I made Rosa's the neatest and Doris's the more goofy but not too goofy teeth as I feel it adds more to the personality and pushes the character that bit more.

Fred's Teeth

Doris's Teeth

Rosa's Teeth