A few things I can not get right with the rig

Question

I have a few major problems with my dog rig that I am not able to get right. The back-leg.002 bone does not rotate as it should (it goes only to a certain degree) if I would like the dog to get in a sitting pose. This is possibly one of the reasons that when I try this pose, the mesh of the legs collapse on to itself. I also added IK bones on the back bones, but I am not able to keep the shapes sitting in place.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=10KhKEfXsGzTg_vV4Mv8diULpsWWGhyIK

Answer 1 · 2018-06-20T18:18:12Z

Kent Trammell replied June 20, 2018 6:18pm

I got a decent sitting pose with your rig:

What helped me was to push your back-leg--IK--target.L control outward in the X axis. To really solve it would require a more complex rig mechanism for the dog leg, but that's beyond the scope of this exercise.

Answer 2 · 2018-07-09T06:09:04Z

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replied July 9, 2018 6:09am

Thanks ! Sorry for the late reply, but I will get back to the exercise with your advice.