Rigging & Skinning 101 - Spine and Chest

A spine is formed, positions are displaced off the grid, each slightly different translate x. This gives us a base for the main ‘spine’, the chest and the neck.

Parenting is needed between the spine connections, as they’re overwriting themselves.

A COG control is then created, this is a link between  the spine and leg components.

The dummy joints are shrunk and hidden in the spine, as these are no longer needed; we now have a working COG.

One control now affects the entire skeleton, the legs and the bend in the spine.