This is another via Lester Banks and is from the rigging artist Giovanna Coutinho and she talks about how to set up an ideal joint chain for IK handles.Top Picks Best 3D Animation Software – Full Round-Up

IK: Better Managing Pole Vectors on an IK Chain in Maya Lester Banks always features great tutorials and this one from Brian Horgan goes through the IK to avoid the dreaded knee pop. Mike Hermes makes a basic bird rig animated with joints, IK handles, and nurbs control curves.Ĭharacter Animation: An Alternative Way to Animate a Foot Roll IK: Rigging a Bird with IK Handles and Curves in Maya 2016 Part 2: Basic 3D Bat Character Part 2 – Modeling Tales of Nalstone put this super cute bat character tutorial together. Quick Rigging and Skinning a Character in Maya 2017ģD Tutorials shows you how to create a basic character rig fast. This is a useful tutorial for new Maya users because it explains the basics pretty clearly. He explains how to order the objects in the Outliner panel in Maya. In this tutorial from TunnelvizionTV uses a 2D character brought in from Photoshop and explains how to bring it in. How to Make A 2D Animation Or Cartoon in Maya Then, check out this basic overview from 3D total that goes over the basics of animating in Maya: Know the Basics: Maya Part 5: Animation. Human IK window – This includes HumanIK menu button, Character menu, Source menu, skeleton tab and more. Includes the Skeleton menu, Skin menu, Deform menu, Constrain menu, Control menuĬharacter Controls – discover the new character controls in Maya 2016 ext 1.

Animation resources in the Autodesk Knowledge Network:Ĭharacter Animation Reference– The topics covered include the Rigging menu set, the Character Animation Nodes, and the Character Animation Tools.

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