Take a Look at This Shark Tail Rig with a Custom FK Controller

3D Artist Ryan Lykos, whose amazing rigs we've shared with you before, unveiled a new Blender setup featuring a shark tail and a peculiar technical solution for visualizing it.

The artist developed a controller that straightens FK chains from the base, using drivers on the MCH layer offset through an expression. This setup produces a different arc in the tail than the basic FK curvature and works particularly well for animating sharks.

Ryan Lykos also advised watching Pierrick Picaut's tutorial on custom bone shapes:

Check out the artist's other amazing works, including this pistol rig, Doomguy's rigged setup, eyes and eyebrows rig, and Mimic from Five Nights at Freddy's with cool eye motion:

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