Week 3: Spider-Man poses

This week, we were given the SpiderMan rig to rig poses.

The first pose is the classic upside down pose were is holds on to his web. In my pose, his head is tilted to the side to show him being curious about something. His shoulders are pulled towards his body because of him holding the web and his thighs are widely spread because of him being upside down, letting gravity pull his legs downwards.

Pose #1
Front View

Side View
From the side view, we can see that his spine is curved and that his knees are infront of his hands. The legs are brought down and the centre of gravity is at his hands where he is holding onto the web.

Pose #2
In this pose, Spider-Man is in the air shooting his web. This is the picture which I took my reference from.

And this is the pose I rigged.

For this pose, the entire hip and shoulders are rotated as his body is facing towards the left. The chest if emphasized in this pose and the arms are muscular in the picture. The rig however, is not so muscular and hence having a skinny arm. The legs are difficult to balance out between the rig and the image as in the image, the legs have muscles and collides with the thighs etc; The rig however has no collision and the shin could just go through the thigh. Hence a balance had between the two had to be done is make sure it looks similar to the image but not too distorted.

Pose #3

For the last pose, the pose I have chosen is quite difficult for this rig. The reason being there is no collision in the rig. This is the pose I have chosen.

 The legs are all "compressed" against each other and for the rig, this is quite difficult to rig. This is the pose I have attempted to rig.

I have tried to keep the spine straight upwards and the left thigh pointing straight but the body size of the rig is different from the picture and hence the small overall body build. The right shoulder is stooped  down and the hand is resting on the right thigh. 

From the front view, he looks slanted to the left because of his left thigh pointing too much to the front. He is supposed to be resting on his ankle but this is not possible for this rig as the leg would go through the thigh and the model will look very distorted. For all the poses, I have modified the fingers to make them fit the pose and they are quite fun to play with.

This is the starting of rigging for the subject and up till now, it is still quite fun to play with. I hope to have more sessions like this! ^_^