update (Patreon)

1. Ive fully moved my human female rig from 3ds max to maya, so now I have nelf male, draenei female and human female rigs fully converted and rigged. The human female and draenei female will be used in my upcoming animation :)

2. my favourite :3

 https://gyazo.com/651fbd2bf40119f6fa7e3ce64b16d2b1 

 https://gyazo.com/e25bd657f680c662236493f08af9b9ab 

So, ive downloaded a plugin, that I mentioned back in february. After all this work on my autorigger, I can finally show why I wanted to take my time making it as good as possible.

Thanks to the plugin shown in the videos, I will be able to copy paste animation and pose data from 1 character to another. Sadly I cant do this for faces yet, as I wont be making the facial auto rigger until probably after summer is over. (I know how to rig faces, but since im in a facial rigging course, I want to wait until Ive learnt as much as possible from said course.) 

But yeah, this will mean that I can finally copy paste animated poses fairly easily, with minimal changes needed. This will likely require more changes on animated poses, but its does mean that making swaps in the future will be possible with different races, rather then having to stick to one race/gender combo.

The only downside/changes needed for this plugin to work properly is to slightly move the arms and legs(This is due to every wow model having its own unique 'T-Pose' as the default pose, which means the spacing between the arms and legs are a tiny bit different, as seen in the video when i copy over the human female pose onto the draenei female.) Ill also obviously have to make changes to work with the models heights, and pussy/anuses our mouths etc, but those changes are still easier to fix then to fully re-animate the same pose.

So yeah, due to the above, for some races like human to draenei, itll be a tiny bit more work to copy paste over animations, but for humans to belfs etc, itll be less work :D Sadly though, this plugin doesnt allow me to re-use old animations, but I do imagine, with some extra work, I should be able to re-use an old animation by retargeting the body to my new rig, and then using this plugin to move it across different races.