![]() ![]() After spending months creating Empress, Oli wanted to share his research and the resulting rig with his Patreon and YouTube community: In September, he released a video tutorial that talks viewers through animating The Empress. Ease of use for animators - whether with a stop motion puppet or a 2D rig - is the key to a smooth production. Creating a puppet is a time-consuming craft, which requires attention to detail. ![]() The art of designing character rigs in 2D has some parallels to building stop motion puppets. During this time he began exploring how to rig 2D characters. Before working in 2D animation, Oli spent years on stop motion productions, until he felt the urge to go freelance and focus on personal projects. His goal: design an easily animatable, but realistic, humanoid character using Toon Boom Harmony. Oli Putland created The Empress rig as a research project.
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