Realtime Creature Rigging

19 Lessons

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  • 01Model Preparation
  • 02Joint Fundamentals
  • 03Skeleton Building
  • 04Rotate axes & orders
  • 05Skin binding and editing
  • 06Painting skin weights
  • 07Control creation
  • 08Hierarchy and attributes
  • 09Control joints
  • 10Spine FK & IK Systems
  • 11Neck, head, and eyes
  • 12FK Limbs
  • 13IK Limbs
  • 14Space swapping
  • 15Twist & roll joints
  • 16Reverse foot systems
  • 17Clavicles & fingers
  • 18Squash & stretch
  • 19Final Adjustments
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02Joint Fundamentals

It’s important to get a good understanding of how joints work in Maya and realise that there is a lot more to them than nodes which push the vertices around. So, before we start to build the skeleton which will drive our model, lets look at the fundamentals of Maya’s joints.
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