Sarah (Lupin House) - (paid) Maya Animation Rig - Review

[Music] welcome back to a rig review and today we're going to take a look at the Sarah rig as you can see here all the controllers on and off and this is part of loping house or Lup depending on where you're from you can see here you go website link description of course they have courses and classes you can see you can also buy that rig but other rigs are exclusive to the class they also have lectures like master classes that are coming up so definitely check that out and if you want to see walkthroughs of different rigs I have here blue and looping Lop on right there and also other rigs on my animation V website so check that one out if you want to see other walkthroughs and subscribe of course if you want to not miss any of these and let's get back to that that is the rig these are the controllers and as always let's start bottom to top I'm going go with the main controller here and on this one you get scale like that and you have an inner controller and that inner controller also lets you scale you also have Bend controllers on off you can see this here maybe it's a bit more visible like that you have secondary controllers on off so if I turn this off like that you can see here around the legs there's a lot of stuff in there I'm going to check these out you also then have face controls on off then you have hair color that you can change like that eye color you can change maybe should go bit closer ey color like that and then you got cloth color so you got this outfit that kind of somewhat Blends into the next right then it gives you shirts on off also pant on off hair glasses so you can turn these all on and off uh shoes and socks there's squeeze squeeze let's see what that does here got to go into this View and then you can see that here as it changes somewh that deformation and then geometry type is referenced here you can go into normal so you can actually select and change a few things so if you need to turn hair on off like that or it's locked like that so you could technically go in here unlock that channel and you can see this it's because of the Expressions if you really want to do this I don't know why you would you can break the connections and then you can go in there and turn it on off manually again I don't know why you would but you can also because it's an inner control as I always do you can technically bring this down and now you have this control at a new pivot point if your character is flying around just in case if you want to do that let's get to the shoes we have actually let me just double check cuz I usually have only nervs on you could have controllers on and you could have surfaces on and on depending on where you work sometimes uh where is it locators will also turn on controls I'm going to leave this on just in case because something sometimes I miss things that shouldn't be missed but you can see there's nothing in the display there's nothing hidden here in terms of visibility but let's go back cuz I was just checking if you could animate the shoelaces but that is what you get here that's your foot control so if you go up here that is an i foot of course if I rotate this you can see it's only the foot so if you want to change the knee it's going to be like that and that by the way also has a snap function so then you can do this with your knee you have a Twist control and that does the same here now if you take the foot here and I go over there you can see how much stretching you have so this is your stretch control on off also the squash on off so depending on what you do how it will squash this so you can see what happens here that can be on off you also have soft ik which I like a lot here so if you take this right and you go into here that's a usual thing where like your knees pop so if I do soft ik fully to one and I do this see that it's a lot softer in terms of how it pops into this I'm a massive fan of what that is doing here's a leg one and leg two that's for your length here let's go back then you got rolls so you got the weight roll so let me just go back here so when you have your roll like this on here you can change how much it influences that top part you got a side roll which is sometimes called banking speaking of banking sounds like you can hear a plane here I live close to an airport it's a tiny airport though but it's okay you got your heel pivot like that and you got your tip pivot you can see where that is it's actually more from this side here toe pivot is more from the front like that then you have a Twist and you can see here it twists the leg like I set so just in case you haven't seen this or you're watching this and you skipping forward I don't know that's what this is obviously you have that on both feet now you have an extra controller right there this is your ik move control so now you have stuff like that which is really neat when you have let's say a plant and you want to have a bit of a little not a squash but kind of a movement in the ankle for compression I'm a big fan of that then if you go in there there's one more in here that's the stretch rig Bend three control as it says here so you can move stuff around like that which is cool which these are all part of Bend Bend bows whatever different rigs have different names for them that's what you have here then you have this one that's your Flappy toe looks like a scale channel is open you can scale actually let me check yes you can can't always do that can you scale this yes you can that means that this is pretty customizable rig and that's that left and right for the feet again you go up here you have BOS for the knees you're all up here for the thighs as well you can know just kind of check like that if you missed anything so far nothing then you have this control here so that's your hip control and see how much it deforms in the waist and lower stomach area then this one you have another one that's a lot more localized here so that's the ik hip control that also gives you that kind of stretchy translate control and if I do the same thing with this it's more like that right so you have that's how this bends and then if you go up here that's how this one bends so you have lots of options within here that's the wrong one here right so like this guy go here that's your root so however you want to change your angle it can be through the roots and then you can use your spine that's your adjuster controller wo that's from a different angle woo again here and then again you have this one you can bend this key this guy here and this one oh what am I doing I'm just showing you right you can do stuff like that not that that's a pose or this one that's your bambo right there then you have the hip that moves that part of the leg out most RS have this this little flag here that's your ik FK switcher so I've switch that over you can see what's going on and then you are in classic not benbo here but here that's your ik FK switch to that control option like I said you have your overall spine control this one does that as like a kind of shape control to make it nicer looking right if you want anything that's a bit more like that or more like that versus the bigger ones that change the full orientation if I go back to the root you can see here there's offset see that you get extra controller there to do more shenanigans if I click on here you have sometimes a bit hidden depending on I have Lighting on so if you do this just don't see much but you can definitely see all the controllers a lot better I'm going to keep this on anyway you have this control here that you can change your breasts left and right potentially also for breathing if you want depending on how you want to do this this has no scale this guy has a scale so you could do it like that some people also use like a TR translate and then a counter with the head you know whatever you want but it doesn't have a dedicated breath control you can see here scale scale is blacked out here so always kind of check what those controllers give you then let's go you got a bunch here let's go in here see this that looks like the back of the head here that's the hair hair control let me try something P day take this here no it's going to say can you take the whole hair away can do that just for now she's in the wind tunnel just so I can see what's in here so we saw this one we saw this one here there's another one here this is your your bendy to move stuff in here you have your actual arm controller this is in FK mode here you have your shoulder that goes up so you would do something like that now you can switch to ik and then you have this watch out see now the should is independent but ik arm stays push you have again your bendies here and you know what instead of constantly clicking on these These are Bend controls off all right we're back to here so that's your I can move control right so you can move it like that just like with the foot so if anybody has like hand plant on a table or something that's pretty neat you like that a lot can you hold on let me just double check no can't scale but this guy you can now this is is your elbow and also your elbow snap just like with the leg so then you can move this around and pin it if she has the elbow on the table but let's not forget if you move this around this is like a true ik meaning that if I move this arm around the hand is always pointed that way so I need to counter or move that hand with it some rigs like the Vixen rig that will always quote has this built in so if you move this you can switch it and that hand is always oriented to the forearm which I like a lot so there's no count but also no giveaway that it's an ik arm kind of a fan of that so you got same options here so you can same option as in legs you can stretch or not you got the squash same thing here you bring this in then you can see here the level of squash that's different then you have save volume here soft ik same thing the length as well and you got the rolls and the rolls are going to be for that hand just like with the foot which is actually pretty neat I got to say I like this then then you got your finger controls so you got your all the way back for this which you can use this here to cup the hand gives you a slight rotate but you can also translate for that but it gives you a bigger control here you can move everything like that and also rotate it if you want you can also scale again it's you can modify this a lot you can take these and do that for controls what it doesn't have let me just double check so translates here you got all these options here sometimes you have controls at the tip of the fingers you don't so some rigs every now and then you can select the hand control and then in here it has whatever like fist relax whatever it gives you like some base controls or curl where you have a general control here that curls all the fingers this does not have it you're going to have to select this all separately and do it like that which you would at the end anyway for detail control for quick blocking it's actually not that bad to have that clearly on both sides because we're talking about arms left and right then we have this here so that one gives you a rotation like this you can also translate and you can also scale is yeah to some degree whoops then we have a shaper depending on what the angle is of the head right then if you go up here that's your overall head control so you can see here it pivots strong layer from that point which you can also scale your head and you can also translate your head here but you saw what it also did here when you have this you can see how much here gets taken with that control so you have your hair right that I have shown before that's your hair control I could take this and now go back to here you have up here that's your hair one control so you can move this away sometimes some controlls have like follow parent so I would you would have an option you follow parent off so then you can take this and you would just take the whole thing off not in this case though then we go to this section here that gives you kind of rotation of the lower part of the face like that now the thing is if you take the lower part and you do this it's going to go into your glasses so you can you can't see this because of the hair but if you go over here right you got this control and it pivots from off there but that will give you an option to move the glasses and also obviously remove the glasses and this to me I have because of I have ambient an ambient light in there and if you don't have it it's fully transparent so if you just have ambient an ambient light in there that's what it does anyway go back to this let's zero this out then let me go and open the mouth that is not the mouth this bigger controller is for your mouth let's go up to here now when you open the mouth you can see options here you have drivers for Corners jaw this is lock though oh you can do something beard scale interesting maybe that's a remnant of something but it's also kind of locked but that is your jaw controller you can translate this you can you can also scale this and then that reveals your tongue controls in the there you can move your tongue out you can see what's in there as well I don't quite see controls for the teeth there you go take these out right you can move your teeth I'm going show you what R can do then you have kind of fleshy gum controls in terms of kind of bending depending on you know if someone's lips sync you want to move your teeth around just for a better this guy depending sometimes you have something where you don't want to see kind of the lower teeth like that so you might adjust and give this a more of a graphic shape that's what you get for that there are a ton of controls this also comes with the with the Picker by the way so you can access all of this cuz there's obviously a ton that's your jaw this is your chin you can see this you get your squash and stretch of your chin if you want isolated chin control you got a couple here so you have this one you can see move it like that again you can scale if you want then you have one above is just this shape this one as you saw is the old overall bendy this one is the overall lower lip here which you have here as well you have this option and you have this option for for the skin shape you get very localized small ones and if you zoom in you got again another one so you got really a bunch of facial controls it's pretty Bonkers let me take this here and close it maybe just a bit more so overall if you want to do let's say a smile it's like that front would be like this and then like I said you can adjust this like that you can adjust this like this so if you have like lip um like sticky sticky type stuff if you go here you have a zip here but depending what you have you can see how it's still a bit open so if you need to on a specific angle adjust certain things you can do it like that you can also scale close stuff like that so you have a bunch a bunch of options let me go back actually again I did this here but let me bring that back so on here besides the zip function for like a oo or something you have a snare like that so you don't want to use the smaller controllers you have sneer up and down also right sneer up and low and you have wrinkle that's pretty cool you add some age and depending on some Expressions that's kind of neat I like it here's an overall control that will move the whole thing and is locked and it moves around the the topology of the face which is really neat obviously depending on the face you know on the teeth and stuff you going have some issues here but you can do it like that but if you grab it in free form does it like that very cool I like that a lot this let me just double check you can yes you can so let me go back here let's say you have the mouth that's a bit more closed like that you can take this and add a smile like that if you want you know what I mean so there's some ways where it doesn't have to be with the smaller controllers but you can actually change it with the orientation of the controllers which is pretty cool this one is your overall cheek but if you have a smile you have different versions here of a smile right you can adjust all of this here so then this can push up then this can push up this shape if you go up to the lids you can bring up the lids and so on and all of this has extra small controls as you can see there's a bunch of stuff and if I do this again you can see it's better highlighted like that you can really see all the controllers that are at your disposal it's pretty Bonkers then you got your ear like that which of course you can also scale let me just double check there's something here that's for your eye sockets let me go over how about this one where you can see a bit better so you have the outer one that takes everything like this this will give you also a blend do that later the blink so you have a standard blink if you want you don't use the lids and then Auto Lids so if you do this you can see how the lids are following but if I grab the outer one and say Auto lits see this fully or not so full will see the difference in how much the LDS are moving which is cool I like that definitely a lot let's go to the eye control later the inner one is kind of the as it says just the inner part can see this here moves that which you can also scale interestingly so this same thing scale or not then you have like I said you got the lids here that's your shape here for the skin but you can also select this and move this up and down then you have your like overall eyebrows hold on there you go moves everything around and you have an option here that is through Channel not through a translate interesting okay but you can do that then if you want to make it more separat you would have this you can bring in this guy for some frown you can see some nice uh skin folding here that's cool can you scale you can't you have a small one to make more adjustable uh shapes here same with this guy this is obviously on both sides now there's an overall nose controller where you can do this there's nothing here in the middle huh sometimes you have an overall controller that kind of bends the whole nose but I guess maybe since this is a smaller nose that's what you get here so you can bend it like this and move it over if you want uh also scale if you want so I remember my dog once got bitten by a bee and then that was his nose poor guy then you got a nose tip like that which obviously also scale I really love rigs where you can scale everything like that then you have nostrils so a you can move it like that but don't forget there's always an option here you have sneer if I select just this nose controller not two but I want here nothing here let me just double check there's always something hidden every now and then on controll or see that like this mouth one has roll and also puff which actually reminds me probably the cheek too huh inflate there you go so never forget to check here wrinkles we showed you that one one of some locked features then you got this one up here so that's going to be your upper squash and stretch directional to some degree this is your uh the form like I showed before with no options in here just always kind of check hair color that you can change change that seems to be overwritten by the overall controller maybe here you have your eyes like that also changes eye color which I'm going to assume yeah it's not changing it's probably the overall main controller here that had all of that it's probably overriding potentially all this you have separate eye movement like this which also gives you pupil right and Iris the overall eye shape there is no eye highlight some rigs have like an eye highlight here you can also move around that exists as well but other than that you got a bunch of like controllers to to shape all of this here it's very very cool and like I said hair that's a lot of hair here that you can move like that there's no like individual hair strand just like a bigger block of hair one thing that I wanted to add and I'm this like an insert as I was doing a pose for my thumbnail the cool thing about this and this seems obvious but when you select two controllers and you move it like this both arms are moving in the same direction some rigs I'm going to make this on purpose and break this if you move it not with the outer control but even if you would use this controller the controls don't move in the same direction that's a massive pain when you have to quickly block something out so Props for this rig for doing that and if you are building a rig make sure that your rig is doing the same thing just want to throw that in there as a uh a plus for this rig and as a heads up for anybody building rigs I think if I be picky I would say it would be cool if you could yes you can scale and do a bunch of stuff like that but it would be cool to have also controller here unless I'm missing something but I don't see it here so on different sides a controller here be cool just you know you you're going to grab glasses from here maybe the back the front here maybe here and here you know depending on where character will grab it like some more controls would be cool but also it would be neat to get a control here to close these guys right you're going to fold in your glasses I think if if you already have a prop and it's there to use I would uh go a bit further what you could do right you can't select this so you will go to that middle controller and say or is it the out control you already forget I did not it was in here uh geot type normal right so I'm grab those glasses let me just see okay you would have to cut this you could probably go into modeling and I'm going to separate this and now you have that right the pivot is some else you can modify Center pivot there you go so you can go in there and then change your pivot I can move this around here you can snap it you know I I'm to make this very very messy here because why not but anyway if you have this here and do it like that your pivot is obviously still going to be from back here but anyway that could be an option oh you can see now where this will break I mean as it should I'm completely destroying this whole setup but but if you wanted to redo this you can take those glasses separate all that stuff out make your own controllers you know reparent hokee Wise how is this in the outliner this guy is here glass control you I mean so and then your glasses are in here glasses the full geometry you mean we can rig this and and rejig all that stuff why not that could be something uh in a future update to add be kind of cool and then since you already have cloth you know giving her pants a longer skirt stuff like that I'm always a fan of just options instead of modeling yourself and having to take time make the time or take the time to do that it's kind of cool but you know these are picky uh wish lists I think overall it's super cool I've seen a bunch of Animation Clips with her it's again it's a very appealing rig it can do a bunch of stuff it's really well rigged so there you go that is your rig in action again with the controllers it's very cool you can see all these highlighted like that I saw a bunch of animation with her like it's very flexible it's a really cool rig it's very appealing definitely check out what you can see on Lup or Lupen house uh their classes the website the different rcks super cool and that's that if you want to see more reviews feel free to subscribe so you don't miss any of those videos the usual YouTube Pitch for the algorithm like And subscribe but that's that I'm going to leave you and hopefully see you in another clip