Winter session wrap up

To close out the end of the winter session, I'll summarize the end results of both the curpigeon and my golem's work status thus far.

As a whole, I've technically built two rigs; the first being the 4 in 1 rig that took the whole of the entire session. The body types involved are the very thin to the fattest of the characters on the curpigeon project. It's not the most perfect rig in the world, as it still needs a low res mesh to be added so that animators won't have to fight with the rig doing calculations, and, unfortunately, some of the controls are stuck being inside the geometry, as the blend shapes made it difficult to move the controls into a better position, but overall the rig is a good success.
The second rig is for the fifth character names long beak, who's overal facial structure couldn't be added onto the multi rig. However, I simply stripped off the geometry from the main rig and reused it, with a bit of re-positioning. Do a bit of weight painting, and that character was said and done.

As to my Golem, I had to set it as more of a secondary project, but some progress was made. The constraint system for the stones was tweaked a bit more, so that the major pieces hold place fairly well, while smaller pieces have more wiggle room. I've also gone with using an IK system on the left leg's roots, so that the whole can be moved, or the roots can stick a bit when the leg is lifted up. I'll need to play with some influence objects relating to the vine curves, as a simple skin bind doesn't work as well as I would like.