The legs are now pretty much done, so in this video we will look at setting up the spine.

To do this we won’t just be relying on a ribbon to help drive the model, we will also be calling upon Mayas IK spline tool too to give us maximum flexibility.

Now although this setup will be used on a dog spine, it can also easily be adapted to be used on a more traditional, biped rig too.

In fact, we will be using a similar setup to rig our dogs neck too.