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Character Rig

Elder Sprite

Elder Sprite v1

31st January 2022

info License: CC-BY movie Sprite Fright

Blender Version: 3.0

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Demeter Dzadik

Elder Sprite makes sure that the values and traditions of Sprite Village are upheld and preserved. And when somebody misbehaves, he makes sure that the punishment shall fit the crime. Although you could say his methods are a bit... old school.

The rig requires at least Blender 3.0! Grab it here!

If you have run into any problems, let us know in the comments below. If you make something cool with this character, make sure to show it to us!

5 Comments

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Thomas Ortega II

15th April 2022 - 20:44

https://vimeo.com/697605183 Here's a link to a video I did with Elder Sprite. It was my first every character animation ever and thus my first with Blender. I did it after watching the Blender Basics and Animation Fundamentals vids. This was about 4 hours of animation, followed by 16 hours of rendering! LOL

It's not perfect and could use more work, but I wanted to give myself a 4 hour limit just to see if I could convey feelings and life. Thanks for sharing the rig. It made it so easy to just jump right in and start animating.

Demeter Dzadik

19th April 2022 - 11:14

@Thomas Ortega II It's a start, keep it up! Unfortunately rendering him to look like he did in Sprite Fright is extremely expensive, but that's fluffy CG hair for ya I guess!

Thomas Ortega II

26th April 2022 - 19:18

@Demeter Dzadik Yup, to be honest, I didn't even realize it was fluffy hair until after I did a test render.

Martin Philip Pedrosa

24th July 2022 - 12:30

I'm experiencing lower viewport performance with this model compared to other Sprite Fright models (I can get a steady 60 with others). Is there a setting I can mess with?

Demeter Dzadik

25th July 2022 - 17:17

@Martin Philip Pedrosa Hey, not sure why this would happen, I'm getting 64fps after opening the file and placing some keyframes on my 5 year old PC at home on a 4 day old build of Blender 3.3. Are you sure you didn't touch the Quality or Particle Hair settings in the rig UI? Those will easily tank performance to seconds per frame territory.