Rigging · 2024
The Rig Demo: Valentine
A Toon Boom Harmony rig built for range, demonstrated on the character it was built for: head rotations, moonwalks, lip-sync.
Role
Rigging and animation in Toon Boom Harmony.
The brief
Build a character rig that can be pushed: full head rotations, expression changes, a walk cycle that can moonwalk, and lip-sync that does not fall apart under fast dialogue.
Approach
The rig is designed around deformation first. Every handle exists because a specific pose needed it, not because the template had room for it.
The demo is the argument: if the rig can hold a moonwalk and a lip-sync in the same take, it will hold whatever a director asks for in production.
Deliverables
- Rig demo, 1 min 25 s
- Reusable Toon Boom Harmony rig