Tale of Two Kittys

摘要

At times, Kitty Galore acts like a cat, while other times she exhibits human-like behavior. Thus, for Cats & Dogs 2: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, the team at Tippett had to use what amounted to a two-rig system to animate the film's vengeful cat. For the most part, the animators used a low-resolution rig-which did not have any of the muscle/skin plug-ins and could be moved around in Autodesk's Maya in real time-to work on the shots. Once the shot reached a certain point, a rigger then added the animation to the muscle/skin rig, integrating the proper amount of jiggle, flexing, and sliding for the muscles and skin. Once this was complete, the result was cached out and sent to the TDs for rendering.