Can I rig once then keep rigging for a family of characters?

Question

Hello,I've set up a 3 view character who walks both ways and looks pretty good. Is there a way to save all the rigging and just change the hair/clothes/facial features? When I make a copy and  edit the puppet in illustrator it loses some or all of the body part rigging. Please help &#128578; I would love to have a set of characters I can easily edit.

oksamurai · Accepted Answer

Make a copy of the original artwork file in PS or AI (like Chlose2.psd).
Make a copy of the puppet in the CH project panel.
Select the puppet copy in the project panel and click the blue link in the right properties.
Pick the new artwork file and click OK.

The puppet should update with all your rigging intact.

musuron2 · Answer

a little trick that i use.

I use Photoshop to create characters. When I try it, I think the rigging stays if the layer included in the rigging stays. So in Ps I put the original layer that included in the rigging underneath and make a new layer on top, modify the image, and merge it with the original layer below. It's a little bit annoying but the rigging stays well.

if i have so many layers to modify, i just re-rigging 😄

but if there's the way to save rigging format only that'll be so great..!

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