Stray Blade

Stray Blade is an action short where the weapon changes hands, gets dropped, and gets picked back up. The prop rigs had to make those handoffs painless for the animators instead of a constraint-baking chore.

Each weapon has its own control hierarchy with a space switch that can follow either hand, the world, or a parent locator, with matching built in so the blade doesn't pop when the space changes mid-shot.

The character bipeds for the film were built on the same modular base as the other VFS rigs, with hand controls tuned for gripping and releasing props.