Today I feel as though I have learned an incredible amount, rigging is a huge subject and I'm only just starting with these simple characters but they have given me a base to build on and things that I coulnd't understand a few days ago have now clicked and I feel ready to push this aspect of animation in the near future. I've been watching a number of tutorials and will hopefully have time soon to go through the official maxon rigging tutorial properly and rig a full character with feet and hands etc using that, rather than just picking up what certain tools do.
There is only one more character to rig which is the very tall one so I want to try out some more advanced techniques such as bendy IK to hopefully make the animation more dynamic with that so I will have to rewatch some training and learn the new workflow, but so far 3 of the 4 characters that need rigging are now fully animatable with clear controllers and heirarchy that I can reproduce with confidence
There is only one more character to rig which is the very tall one so I want to try out some more advanced techniques such as bendy IK to hopefully make the animation more dynamic with that so I will have to rewatch some training and learn the new workflow, but so far 3 of the 4 characters that need rigging are now fully animatable with clear controllers and heirarchy that I can reproduce with confidence