What you'll learn

Throughout this course, we will create realistic muscle and skin motion and become productive with the flexible Maya Muscle tools and workflow, all while learning creative techniques for enhancing character performances. This course contains over three hours of project-based training. It's perfect for artists learning Maya Muscle. Popular highlights include a Maya Muscle overview; capsules, bones, and muscles; Muscle Builder user interface; modeling muscle definition; custom muscle shapes, muscle spline deformer; muscle stretch deformer; muscle skin deformers; sliding and shrinkwrap; painting muscle weights; Jiggle, Cycle and Rest attributes; Relax and Smooth attributes; muscle caching; Surface Attach; and muscle setup for symmetrical characters. Software required: Maya 2008 Extension 1, or cMuscle System Plugin.