I built the rig, bound the model to it and painted weights. It's functional and I can pose my character, but I want to move on to his weapon because he's going to need it to tell his story, and he's pretty boring without it. If I have time, I'm going to come back and build a control rig as well, one that could be used by the animators in a game production pipeline. I'm also going to go back and re-visit the materials if time allows.