I worked on the legs next, giving them IK controls and reverse feet controls. I also added toe curl and twist controls. Due to how short the legs were, I also added some stretch controls as well as controls for the hip, to allow more flexibility.

It had been a while since I had last created a spine rig, so I worked on the tail next. I created a ribbon for it as a simple refresher for myself.

After the legs I did the spine, starting by experimenting with a IK spline and a ribbon spine. I ended up settling on the ribbon spine method, as it allowed animators to have more control over the movement of the torso with this rig.

Because this characters has so many limbs, I had to unparent all the limbs while making the spine, as well as troubleshoot some issues when re-parenting them after finalizing the spine.

Next, I moved onto any joints I needed in the clothing. The coattails and cape are all simple FK controls.

Finally, I moved onto the face. I started by creating FKs for the jaw and tongue, and had to experiment with laying out the joints in different ways before settling on a final joint placement.

I created four ribbons for the face- upper lip, lower lip, and the two eyebrows. Almost everything else on the head is an FK control, except for a few blendshape controls