Reply To: Trouble rigging a tail
On the popping it’s hard to tell without looking at the rig, but first guess is the the control bone is connected to the IK Chain.
As for the bend you should have a little more geometry where the tail connects to the body. Also you need to either move the head of the first bone of the tail further inside or add another bone. The start of a tail is further in. The tail movement starts from the butt not from where the tail merges into the butt. I hope that make sense. Here’s reference image of a similar creature.
I marked red where the missing Bone for your rig and green for the adjusted Tail1. Sorry, I was using a mouse so the line is a little crooked.
