The first project was entirely rigged by hand (minotaur)

The second character was rigged with an auto-rig, with additional controls for the belly (spline driven), and a switchable tie (between static, animateable and simulated). There were also additional blendshapes applied for fat deformation, particular to the body shape of the character.

Magazine rig was made with joint driven blendshapes, along with the usual skinned joints. There was an overall slider for flipping the page. Animators could later use sliders and separate controls to animate the front, back and flippable page of the magazine.