There is one sharpshooter in the movie, but I'm not going to make a separated model for it.

That was in mind, but I didn't make it... I said that this is a SWAT stickman, but it's more like elite soldier. I can make the visor, but I don't need this model for a long time.

I don't think visor could be good... What do you do with a visor when mutant is cutting you from the middle? I personally think some cool swat commando eguipments in helmet would be good.

Jansson made a better version already.

Thanks.

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Oh, yes. You are supposed to use the bone called Head for moving the whole head. Bone.002.Bk.004 is supposed to be left alone.

This is going on nicely.

Bone.002.Bk.004 bone (on the head) moves the teeth, but not the lip.

Aaaaaaand... Another way to prevent me from doing rigging :)

Check the third one.

I hate rigging, so I quickly made a new way to survive with out it. That new mutant works so well, but it looks like stupid. What do you think? It could maybe fit to my movie.

Try to pose it! It's really fun!

It's going to be re-done at least once again.

PS It's made by Joel

Looks evil!

Try. I used gaze bone in the A Dog and A Christmas Tree film for the dog and it worked well.

Doesn't it get a bit walleyed if I track it to a gaze bone?

Thanks! I fixed the neck. But she can't sit right yet without crumpling her hips...

Are you sure you don't want a gaze bone? Gaze bone is a bone, where eyes are being tracked to. It's good idea if you don't want to make stupid looking look.

Great!

Niiiiiiiiice.

Model updated, with tongue and finished armaturing.

I know that.

Thank you for the walkthrough.

The reason some parts don't deform is that I haven't finished with making vertex groups yet.

Those deforms for that dog are wonderful. Head (both heads) isn't covered by envelope so it deforms weirdly (don't deform at all). Leg deforms are brilliant. You should also make a gaze bone for eyes. Make one free bone (unparented and unconnected) and make those two bones to point to it with "track to" modifier. It's easier to control the eyes then.

For bone driven shapes, make two shape keys. Basis and some other. Then, go to shape IPOs tab, select the other (not basis) shape and press N. Type the name of the armature to the driver field, select pose driver and type the name of the bone. I don't remember how to adjust those values, but Xmin and Xmax represent the bone value wich drives the shape and Ymin and Ymax represent the shape influence value (I don't remember was this right).

I can tell you but I don't have time now.

No. I hadn't heard of that. It sounds like I would do well to check it up. I need to go to school now, if I am not too tired afterwards I will look into it, otherwise, tomorrow.

Does this need any fur anymore?

Have you heard about bone-driven shape keys? With little tweaking you can control shape keys by simply rotating one bone. It's easier to key and control.

Damn!

Anyway, updated blendfile.

That problem isn't there anymore but... NO! You can't have my computer :D

Hmm. I think I have fixed that and uploaded a new file, I just didn't bother with a new screenshot.

Can I have your computer?

I think I can see a problem in the left front leg...

Anyway, I'm now writing from my new computer :D It's a bullet! It runned the preview video of the "A dog and a christmas tree" animation file with (allmost) all objects visible and in solid mode at full speed! Rendering is LOT faster now.

Great! I think that is good colouring.

I will do some fixes and then I will upload it. I have so many renders that I will have a mess if I upload them all. I could delete them but it will be a mess. This video here, is just a few seconds render from the part where assistant walks. It don't contain the start. I will animate the movement of the X and then I add it to youtube. Just wait.