Skinning Piero’s Mesh: Duerer’s Progress:

[Ingmar Franz]

A posing test for Piero after parenting the mesh to the “Deformation Bones” using “Automated Weights”:

[Ingmar Franz]

A Cycles test rendering with the feather meshes skinned:

[Ingmar Franz]

All feather meshes skinned to their corresponding bones:

[Ingmar Franz]

There’re gaps opening when the claws are clutching:

Also with the original Piero:

The toe nails probably shouldn’t rotate so freely.  I tried lowering the vertex weights for the nails but this didn’t change the behaviour.

[Ingmar Franz]

With some corrections to the toe nails, the gaps shouldn’t be visible as long as no close-up views are needed:

[Ingmar Franz]

I’ve reshaped the toe nails so that they now better close the gaps:

[Shawn Blanch]

Wow it is really coming together. Nice work @duerer 

[Ingmar Franz]

Thank you, @blanchsb 😀! Some weight painting still has to be done in the head and shoulder area 🎨.

[Ingmar Franz]

Piero’s main rig is now complete:

The Cycles rendering is here.

Next step: Facial shapekeys and their rig.

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