So... Wow...
Added 2016-11-17 23:52:42 +0000 UTCI just discovered a new breakthrough with rigging.. You may remember I was stuck trying various methods for getting muscles to slide over the suface of, say, the ribcage. To be fair I didn't "discover" it.. Someone told me about a feature of a plugin I purchased a year ago that I never knew about! All this time and the solution was right before me.
The solution I came up with in the animation that is rendering now is a fakey cheat. It worked pretty well on the chest (better than animations before it), but the back really suffered. This solution is the real deal. The model is really sliding over the ribcage now. You can see it in this experiment:
http://carm3d.net/CD_VolumeExperiment.MP4
Amazing. Wish I learned about this long ago. Well.. This and the new WeightPaint tool will be utilized in the next animation and all future animations.
In other news, the first pass of the animation will be done in less than 40 hours.. So that's.. a thing. :)
