Ordered books, both Timothy Albee and Jonny Gorden. It was more than 3 weeks ago, not here yet. Grrr
. Can't say much about that, but I have high hopes. Poser is not the sollution IMO. I won Poser 5 over 1 year ago, but haven't paid much intention to it. Fast humans , and easy to make them walk around, but rather polygonheavy characters. Rendering, forget it. What I've done with it is few bvh exports. XSI and messiah has both pretty fast rigging procedures, piped guides and autorig. Playing with those would probably give soon the way how to make custom rig for our own needs.
Starting with LW rigging from scratch is hard cause there is so many pitfalls to fall. RPR messes skinning if targets or expressions are used, maybe otherwise too and Record Rest Position did quit to work with it in some point. Weights don't behave allways as they should. Endless playing with bone stiffness. Proxys blow sometimes to mirrored side or to where ever. IK Boost tool needs probably good IK rig first, I've had no luck with that tool yet, I've got IK booster DVD but I'd like IK/FK switching instead too. Broken bonetools.p in 8.2... I mean if it is animation you are doing you should animate and make your rig better as skills and demands grow. Fighting with tools takes the pleasure out of this. Sure there are workarounds and other software have their limitations and bugs and I've used LW only 9 months, learned how to preapare to animation while modeling, texturing... I know.
If anyone knows a link to good ready rigs, please link. I feel I should have started with some of the provided characters rigs in contents folder and customized that to my characters, but unfortunately did not do that.
Oh yes, I feel the same.