Jellyfish Pictures · Character rigs for a series pitch trailer
Moomin
For a Jellyfish Pictures trailer made to help bid for the new Moomin TV series, I rigged all the main characters with my rigging system. I added new bendy and IK tweaker systems so the Moomins' large, rounded shapes deformed smoothly, belly wobble controls with adjustable falloff, a dragonfly rig and dynamic plants.
- Studio
- Jellyfish Pictures
- Role
- Character rigs for a series pitch trailer
- Year
- 2016
The challenge
Jellyfish Pictures made a trailer to help bid for the new Moomin TV series, and the characters needed rigs that would bring some of the most famous characters ever imagined to life. I met the director, Steve Box, early in 2016, and his passion for the project came across straight away. The Moomins' large, rounded shapes needed to deform smoothly and look good in every pose.
What I did
- Rigged all the main characters with my rigging system.
- Added new bendy and IK tweaker systems, which let animators bend and fine-tune the shape of limbs and bodies, so the larger Moomin shapes deformed beautifully.
- Belly wobble controls with extra falloff controls, so animators could choose how far the wobble spread.
- Rigged a dragonfly and set up dynamic plants that move on their own, to add life to the scenes.
The outcome
The rigs went into the pitch trailer that Jellyfish Pictures' animation and post-production teams produced to help win the series. It was a lovely project and an honour to work on.
