Righty

Felt the need to post something seeing as i haven't posted a progress report in a while. The body is rigged... Ive setup set driven keys on the feet and individual set drive keys on all fingers on the fingers on the hands, anything that these don't cover will just have to be done individually. Theres IK handles in the legs, I originally wasn't going to have IK in the arms but because im doing a walk cycle like a gorilla he really needed them, so i now have two models one with and IK in the arms and one with an FK for when im animating a scene, having the two models is so much quicker and easier than having to have made an IK/FK switch. Once this was done it was onto painting weights... ive did it as best i can in the T-pose and then started a walk cycle with him and ive been cleaning up the weights as ive been going on.

Cleaning the weights is taking AGGGEESSS but i wanna get it done properly cause otherwise its going to look really bad, especially on the belly where there going to be quite alot of follow through. I have been having quite alot of trouble with random verts deciding their going to react to a completely different part of the body despite the fact they have no influence at all making them do this, ive checked in the weights and the components editor there is no reason for them to be doing this, so the only way i see round this is manually animating them back to the body, this isnt too much of a problem tis just a pain.

Edit: It looks like he has a cloud on his chest.