Rigging Vocab Review

Another name used in the industry for a rigger is ___?

• Technical Artist

• Technical Developer

• Technical Director

• Technical Animator

True or False: Joints can rotate.

• True

• False

____ points of articulation created to control the model.

• Joints

• Bones

• joint hierarchy

• set driven key

Rigging is a 3D skeleton made up of a series of bones that ___ and ____ specific parts of the model.

• deform, rotate

• scale, slide

• deform, animate

• scale, animate

______ are triangle shaped objects that connect joints together on the rig.

• NURBS curves

• bones

• blend shapes

• deformers

____ tells the computer in what order the character’s parts should be assembled.

• bone hierarchy

• Inverse Kinematics

• set driven key

• joint hierarchy

____ allows you to change the shape of one object into the shape of another object.

• set driven key

• deformers

• blend shapes

• parenting

When parenting objects, the objects that follows the lead is the ____

• parent

• child

When creating a prop for a character such as a weapon, an effective way to apply it to the character's hand for ease of use is to ____ the prop to the character.

• constrain

• set up an IK

• set up an FK

• create a blend shape

_____ is an animation tool that let an animator move large sections of vertices on a 3D model to create an organic shape.

• bones

• deformers

• blend shapes

• joints