It also depends on where you work too. While I was at Disney, they insisted on having a "control panel" for any given character which included screen grabs of the character in a spread eagle pose and its mug shot with the controls positioned in and around what they control. Apparently "animators" are too "artistic" to deal with technical stuff like grabbing "empties" there. Ironically this wasn't as much work as it sounds like because the guy who worked on this stuff had figured out most of his job as MEL scripts so it only took him several screen clicks in Maya to get him to 90+%. Like I said, auto-rigging scripts are the way to go. And these scripts should do more then just rig the characters. They should build the UI to control the characters as well...<div>
<br></div><div>phong.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Nathan Vegdahl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cessen@cessen.com">cessen@cessen.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
(David Bryant)<br>
> So, most pro rig rig controls use simple controls (boxes,<br>
> circles,crosses,spheres).<br>
<br>
Most professionally produced rigs use simple shapes because the<br>
riggers making them are either lazy, or are on too strict of deadlines<br>
to make good control shapes.</blockquote></div></div>