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Creature Rigging in Maya: Insects

Learn an artist-friendly workflow to creature rigging and a solution-based approach to building controls for faster animation in Maya. Software required: Maya 8.5 and up.

Intermediate
6h 9m
(5)

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Last Updated Mar 19, 2019

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Creature Rigging in Maya: Insects

Learn an artist-friendly workflow to creature rigging and a solution-based approach to building controls for faster animation in Maya. Software required: Maya 8.5 and up.

Intermediate
6h 9m
(5)

Created by

Last Updated Mar 19, 2019

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Learn an artist-friendly workflow to creature rigging and a solution-based approach to building controls for faster animation in Maya. Contains over 6 hours of project-based training for setup artists learning new methods of rigging multi-limbed creatures. Popular highlights include: Building Skeletons from Anatomy; Painting Weights for Rigid Deformations; Spring IK Solver; No-flip IK; Innovative Broken Hierarchies; MEL Scripting for Rigging and Animation; Visual Limiter Controls; Sculpt Deformer; Blend Shapes; Character Sets; Smooth Binding. Software required: Maya 8.5 and up.

Creature Rigging in Maya: Insects
Intermediate
6h 9m
(5)
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