https://technonaturalist.net/blog/2025/08/august-progblog-1-protective-3-animated/red-zip-cu_hu_561e2040b5cf548f.webp
top posting this one for "portfolio" purposes
Four years ago (x_x) I made this piece:
Protective is actually 2 and the original Protective was badly drawn in a uni notebook a hundred million years ago
Earlier this year I decided to "continue" this slightly older video
There I was doing cloth sim, hair dynamics I think and also testing out this clumsy rig I'd made for the Avian crests. In this one I was purely testing the Dragonkin rig and trying extremely hard not to get distracted with (re)learning cloth sim and seeing if the new hair system could animate yet. I also made it slightly nicer than I normally would because it's been a while since I animated properly.
There's a number of things left to fix but I made myself leave it because it was supposed to be just to test out the rig, and I really, really, really need to get back to building.
Most of what I got out of that was that I seem to be missing some controllers (Zara's rig had some extra controllers that either hadn't generated or just didn't exist) and I need 7-9 tail controllers (and hopefully not more x_x) as 5 could make one tight loop but not more without everything going awry.
https://technonaturalist.net/blog/2025/08/august-progblog-1-protective-3-animated/red-concerned_hu_c108c58cbd8e520c.webp
https://technonaturalist.net/blog/2025/08/august-progblog-1-protective-3-animated/red-zip-cu_hu_561e2040b5cf548f.webp
https://technonaturalist.net/blog/2025/08/august-progblog-1-protective-3-animated/zip_hu_be65a79d062913c0.webp
If you stare really hard at the last pic you might see Zara's gigantic owl eyes through the lenses.
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This post also appears on [my blog](https://technonaturalist.net/blog/2025/08/august-progblog-1-protective-3-animated/).
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