2023-2-28 Introducing Pax
Pax is Rex’s rival, an alien from another planet who also patrols the skies. Because they are on different space ships, the way they interact is via Rex’s hologarden. It’s basically like the holodeck in Star Trek. Sometimes Pax and Rex are civil and enjoy pleasant conversation in whatever setting they choose as the backdrop, which will be an additional opportunity to see what environments Open AI’s Dall-E generates. Essentially always, though, Rex gets upset with Pax in the hologarden and challenges him to a battle. Again, the setting for the battle can be anything.
As indicated in the video here, rigging Pax in Character Animator took a bit longer than other characters, but mostly because there was some troubleshooting that took a while. The problem was that his head was moving independently during Motion Library actions but the crown was not on therefore the head did not have independence. But, the body had independence, which is what the problem was. The layer wasn’t identified with a + in Photoshop, so why it imported to Character Animator with independence is a mystery. Nonetheless, the matter is now resolved.