During my first summer internship in 2009 at SOE Austin I worked mainly with the character team on DC Universe Online. It was my job to rig & skin as many npc characters as I could. I learned the proprietary rigging tools under the direction of Luiz Kruel. After improving my weighting skills and familiarity with the rigging tools themselves, I also picked up the task to test the character animations in Unreal as well as test them in game. Once approved I would add sockets in Unreal and then implement the characters themselves into the game. All characters/animations were made by other SOE artists. It was my job to make sure skin weights worked perfectly with the animation library and to fix any visual character bugs.
Here are the characters I got to rig for the game.
(animations & characters modeled and textured by various DCUO team members)
Below are some screen capture videos of a few of the characters I rigged. I wanted to show the deformations of the different body types and skins with armor
(All animations were done by members of the DCUO Animation Team)
