2 months forwards, and 2 months behind

It has been 2 months since I have updated, there is not much to say actually. First, I will start off by saying that our production is 2 months behind (actually that is what I like to think, but it is actually 2 weeks behind). There is a lot of design changes in the characters and this caused changes in the models, without the models I could not rig anything and the animators are stuck with nothing to do.

The design of the characters came out late, and coupled with my rusty rigging skills from not doing any rigs for around half a year, I took around 2-3 weeks, with adjustments and test rigs adding up to 3-4 weeks total for the main character (I am still tweaking for . However, that is not only what I did for that whole time period, I did the rig for 2 more characters, still primary characters, one in T-pose one in A-pose.

I don't think I can post any of the production stuff here since it is meant to be private and confidential and it is part of production secrecy. However, I think our director is setting up a websiite for our WIPs and I will update as soon as that kicks in. Until then, I think I can just post the controls I did for the main character.

Whole control setup, althou not finished yet.

The unfinished part is the lower lips part, figured it was more logical to have upper and lower lips control.
P.S. Our main character's name is called Mei Ling.

Eye aim controls, the slider controls pupil size.

FK setup, can switch with the "EX" control in the background.

IK setup, "EX" control highlighted.

Well, I try my best to provide a comprehensive control system for the animators, if they want anything, they will tell me and I will implement it. Other than that most of the rigs all use these types of control setup and I pretty much consider this my "default" setup way to go. I will reveal my joints placement when we start the website, till then that is all I can show.