{"id":310,"date":"2026-09-22T22:39:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T22:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/?p=310"},"modified":"2026-09-22T22:41:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T22:41:38","slug":"stegosaurus-model-and-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Stegosaurus Model and Rig"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 3000 \/ 1720;\" width=\"3000\" autoplay controls loop muted src=\"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/run_cycle_006a.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This stegosaurus was a quick project I threw together so that I would have a model to use for developing new rigging features. My goal was to stress-test my curve rigging nodes in Mantis, and to challenge myself with the requirement of keeping the bony plates rigid while the body deforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 3000 \/ 1720;\" width=\"3000\" autoplay controls loop muted src=\"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/turnaround.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 3000 \/ 1720;\" width=\"3000\" autoplay controls loop muted src=\"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/turnaroundWFLayers.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is a turnaround of the Stegosaurus  with its material and lighting, and a turnaround that shows the wireframe and texture layers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" autoplay controls loop muted src=\"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/stego_rig_demo.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is a demo of the Stegosaurus rig and some of its various features. This Stegosaurus was rigged with Mantis Rigging Nodes, so it&#8217;s really easy to edit it, and the rig can be adapted to any kind of quadruped animal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This stegosaurus was a quick project I threw together so that I would have a model to use for developing new rigging features. My goal was to stress-test my curve rigging nodes in Mantis, and to challenge myself with the requirement of keeping the bony plates rigid while the body deforms. Here is a turnaround [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,23,22,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d-art","category-3dcoat","category-blender","category-rigging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}