Spine/belly driver (Patreon)

So this some of you have already seen on the stream, but now were making a post too. :)

It turned out that simply updating the skinning wasn't enough to achieve the amount of quality we wanted around the spine/belly area for extreme angles. So now we're adding a driver to it as well. No need to be dramatic about it, so let's get straight to it.

Examples

Dragoness

With driver

https://gyazo.com/7ea095e4a855792683f290d2640f1ddf

Without driver (for comparison)

https://gyazo.com/4328802b4d8c43ea79585a14d2977f3e

Cat

With driver

https://gyazo.com/38bd3cc5d7e7c27720aa5e40ae386211

Without driver (for comparison)

https://gyazo.com/1f1dd02be461280a2682fd0ab199cfc9

Having updated the skinning and moving the belly into a 2nd skinning pass (as we did previously when we tried to improve the spine/belly area) was still the right choice though, since that made the authoring process tremendously much easier. So that time wasn't wasted.

With the skinning technique we use together with this new driver, we hope things will look better and poses will be easier to author.

All characters will support the spine/belly driver in 0.6.1.