3D Animation and Rigging Weekly

Take a deep dive into 3D character animation and rigging in Autodesk Maya.

Introduction

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

1. September 2020

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

2. October 2020

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

3. November 2020

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

4. December 2020

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

5. January 2021

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

6. February 2021

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

7. March 2021

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

8. April 2021

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

9. May 2021

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

10. June 2021

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

11. Q3 2021

• 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

Conclusion

• That's a wrap