The Brian Rig was made for my "Luck At The Slots" animated short. 

The model for Brian himself was modelled by the talented character modeler Makar Malicki who I follow on instagram. Brian's model is available for purchase on Makar's turbosquid webstore at:
https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/character-female-male-3d-1590924

I was not happy with settling on just making a character rig that was just joints and controls so with this rig I set out to expand my knowledge on character rigging further.  The big features on this rig I sought to learn are Ribbons controls, stretchy limb bones and a set of facial controls paired with a Face Picker with driven Blend Shapes.  I intentionally chose these features so my character would be able to better act and so I could do a better job at doing a toony stretch with him at the end of the short that what could be done with just using bones.