The idea from this wasn't actually from the movie "Night at the Smithsonian". No. Growing up in D.C. one of my favorite places to go to this day is the Smithsonian (its for that reason that I'm shocked and outraged at having to actually pay for museums). I loved to imagine what it would be like to see all those creature in the Natural History alive.
Hence the inspiration for this piece. I've been animating this piece for about a month. I used my 'Henry' rig, which you can see him in progress in some of my older posts. I hope to have a video about his rig posted soon. I'll admit I'm not proud of the little girl's rig. I did it very quickly, and wanted to try my hand at hair and nCloth-I originally had the girl's shirt entirely made of nCloth. While I love nCloth and its versatility, I couldn't get it to perform the way I wanted, no matter the settings. It would get to stretchy and looked more like chewed up gum and would constantly go through the girl's geometry, making it look like there was a giant whole in her shirt. Even making her geo a passive rigid body to the nCloth and adjusting the collision settings wouldn't fix it. In the end, due to time constraints, I painted the shirt onto her geometry like I did her jeans. Her hair was also a nightmare, but it serves its purpose. It is made of fur which are controlled by hair follicles. For whatever reason, the fur will pass through her geo, most noticeably through the top of her head, making her some kind of crazy long-haired-Captain Picard-ginger-freak. Again, due to time constraints, I could not find a permanent solution.
Enjoy!
You can also find a link to it here.
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