Flower

Rig a 3-bones flower

Task

• Rig a 3-bones flower. Add controllers to the flower rig.

• Flower

  • Create a bone.
  • Extrude new bones.
  • Edit bones position to match geometry.
  • Rename bones.
  • Assign a custom color.
  • Constrain "armature" the geometry to the bones.
  • Edit paint weight of flower geometry.
  • Pose the bones to bend the flower.

• Add controllers to the flower rig

  • Create control bone (duplicate originals) & rename them.
  • Unparent them from original link.
  • Parent them to each other in a hierarchical way (lower control the one above).
  • Create empty with circle shape and hide it.
  • Assign custom shape of empty.
  • Assign custom color.
  • Assign controllers to new bone collection.
  • Pose the controllers to bend the flower.

Example