Building a custom RIG

Ideas of skeleton structure-

•  8 joints in backbone, will cover neck and below waist.
• Will include hip joins
•  Inverted joint for wing bend
• Wings will act as hands with no finger joints, able to curl inward.
• Wiggle joints will be added to ribs and hat rim.
•  Possible to use hinge joint?
• Using the Cluster tool to create joints

How to-

• Open Script editor.
•  Select, ‘Ployselectconvert- newcluster- evelope- 1’.
•  Move it over to your custom bar.
• Shelf editor.
• Rename it.
• Joint cluster- CVC – Create Volume Cluster

This will create a centred cluster based off of the selected faces on the model. Essentially making a snap-to joint within the model.

• Next, save it. 
• Select the chosen faces, the click the CVC Button.
•  Make sure to unclick it before moving on.
• This is helpful for creating finger and wing joints.

 http://gamedevpipeline.com/dragon-wings-rigging-maya

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Making joints for wings in maya, different 

approach.

--Emily Bruce