Versatile monkey tail rig?

[alessandro-d84]

Right now I'm having some trouble coming up with a good, versatile method of rigging a monkey tail. The character has to hang from his tail in a few scenes and be able to emote with it while on all fours in others. I may have to do two separate rigs, but I'd rather not. I'm playing with a spline IK driven by an FK type of parented controls at the moment. Any suggestions?

[doug-hines]

Sounds to me like you're on the right path. I would just make sure that you have the ability to change the parent of the tail IK system so you can stick it in place and swing from it

[joojaa]

I may have to do two separate rigs

you do not you can animate the position of a characters pivot so that takes care of this problem.