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Character setup, otherwise known as rigging, is an extremely odd topic. Where I teach, it is a required course to which we subject all animators. My goal is to at least make students aware enough of the rigging process to be able to create small rigs for their senior project; to be able to work with character setup artists in their careers; to understand that it is extremely difficult and must be done correctly to enable the animator to animate well. In short, I hope students learn to respect their character setup artist.

What I have found in the past ten years of all of the rigging classes I have sat in, learned in, taught in, and learned in some more, is that out of every class there is maybe only one person who ...

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