Rigging

I had never made a rig before and didn't really know what i was doing. This is the reason why i used an auto-rig to make prospector rig

see technical folder.

The auto rig even set up mst of the weights, i just had to tweak them a little bit to get them to fit the character.

I was very dissapointed with the rig as a whole and would have definitely preferred to out source it. I did not know of anyone who could do it though, SO in order to get the film done i had to make do with what i could

As i didn't like the character rig i didn't attempt to use the same thing for the dog, so i got James waters to do the rig for that.

Again i just had to weight it. Despite various issues. i  managed to get something that was workable.

The bird only needed movement available in its wings and eyes.

Therefore i built a very crude skeleton and painted weights to allow this.

see technical for the rig itself.

see animation for the rig in action