Bucky Character Rig Final

Introducing Bucky!

I finished working on a wonderful Character Rig inspired by the cartoon series: Bluey. I made my own character design for this based on a Husky but the form factor meets the theme from the show.

After completing the sculpting and retopo, I collaborated with our fellow community members phoenix4690 (rigging) and dostovel (rendering/lighting/awesomeness).

Bucky comes packed into an addon that I made. It has loads of cool features:

• Ability to link or append directly from the addon. The linked rig automatically creates the needed library overrides to get going (no guess work).
• A sick Single color theme changer! Complete with algorithms to adjust all material colors within a unique blend of several similar, yet different hues & values that also clamp between their own min and max ranges.
• The color theme can also be keyed for easily animating an entire color shift.
• Pose asset library importer and direct access to the poses within the addon.

phoenix4690 created the rig and added the following notable features:

• A beautiful set of control bone and IK/FK toggles
• Custom control properties adjustable from the addon as well.
• Created some base poses that are packed into his asset library for quick posing on-the-fly

dostovel is currently working with us to make him shine.

• Setting the theme and poses
• Scene lights and cameras
• Final renders and compositing work as needed.

I wanted to share him as a finished project here. He's been in the making since May 2022 and we've often streamed his progress on Epic Wednesday's in the CGCookie discord.

I'll share more as we put a couple of finishing touches in the coming weeks.