Animation Test

The animation test definitely showed some of the rig's flaws and fixes.

I corrected the clavicle controls; they weren't working correctly and couldn't hold keys.

I also smoothed more weights between the neck and head.

I locked and hid transformations, rotations, and scale of some controls that I had forgotten to do previously.

Again, if I were to revisit this rig, I would make more mouth corrective shapes, or might redo it entirely using double wire transformers.

Pretty much done

The face and body rig are complete. It is not perfect, I will probably revisit this rig in the future and add some extra attributes and corrective blend shapes. However, it is certainly usable and ready to animate.

Using SHAPES

To do the mouth corrective blend shapes, I am using SHAPES plugin found here: http://www.braverabbit.com/shapes/

It is super easy to use and really speeds the process up.

However, today when working on the mouth corrective blend shapes, my computer crashed for about 2 and a half hours every time I apply a shape to the mesh with this program. I'm getting a weird error.

Update: it was fixed by saving the file to the desktop with a new file name.