3D Animation and Rigging Weekly

Introduction

• Create rigging and animation with Maya
• Taking advantage of the exercise files

• Creating replacement animation
• Using offset parent matrices
• Scripting offset parent matrices
• Animation timeline bookmarks

• Using proximity pins
• Using UV pins
• Proximity wrapping
• The Rivet command
• Animating blinks

• Changing eye direction
• Eye direction and head turns
• Rigs for dilating pupils
• Matrices instead of constraints in rigs

• Using the Pose Editor in skinning
• Scaling rigs
• Picking up objects

• Advanced snapping for joint placement
• Bonus tools in Maya for rigging
• Setting up a ribbon rig
• Rigging a flexible arm with ribbons

• Adding deformers to a ribbon rig
• Skinning ribbon rigs
• Understanding animation layers
• Walk cycle to progressive animation

• Animating overlap quickly
• Working with HumanIK
• Rokoku motion assets
• Smoothing out creases with Delta Mush

• Controlling stretch with tension
• Using nodes instead of constraints
• Cartoon eyes using lattices
• Rigging cartoon eyes
• A pose or T pose?

• Using UVs to select vertices
• Copying skin weights
• Import/export skin weights
• Creating a head aim control

• Namespaces for characters
• Edit characters with pattern rename
• Edit animation in the Time Editor
• Change walk cycle direction with Redirect

• Interactive Skin Bind tool
• Move Skinned Joint tool
• Component tags
• Morph deformers
• Solidify deformer
• Ghosting Editor
• Component Editor tips
• Spring IK solvers
• Maya muscle system setup
• Connecting Maya muscles to skin
• Keeping characters centered
• Basic hair sweep mesh
• Using Quick Rig

• That's a wrap