Animating with Blender

A Final Example of Fixing a Rigging Problem

While the problems you encounter during rigging are too numerous to mention in a single chapter (or even a single volume of a book), I would like to present you with one problem that I ran into and show how I fixed it. This is very typical of the kinds of things you will run into, and the framework for finding a solution should be instructive.

In one of the shots of The Beast, the mother kneels on the ground to pick up the little fellow. In her kneeling position (okay, technically it’s a squat, but she’s a dignified lady, so I won’t say she was doing that), the stomach area deforms poorly, reducing her front-to-back depth to something like a few inches in real scale. The effect is highlighted in