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Introduction to Rigging

Introduction to Rigging

Create a Full Body Rig in Maya

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What You'll Learn

Create a Full Body Rig Puppet from Start to Finish

Requirements

  • Very Basic Maya and Rigging Knowledge

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Maya
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Introduction to Rigging - Create a Full Body Rig in Maya

This series of tutorials will serve as an in-depth introduction to Rigging, starting from scratch, with an introduction about rigging in Maya with the basics, and then step by step on how to create the rig for a human character.
The level is beginner to intermediate as we advance in the tutorial.
18 hours of lessons!
You can follow it with the same model as in the videos or apply it to your own models.
This course is split in 10 parts, as it used to be a 10-week course, where we cover the following:
Part 1 - Introduction to Rigging
Part 2 - Skeleton Placement and Orientation
Part 3 - Spine Rig
Part 4 - Neck Rig
Part 5 - Arm Rig
Part 6 - Fingers Rig
Part 7 - Leg Rig
Part 8 - Limbs Twist Setup
Part 9 - Finalize Rig
Part 10 - Skinning the Character

Course Curriculum

10 modules · 81 lessons · 17h 32m of content

01

Introduction and Rigging Basics

1 free

Overview of the Course and some Maya Rigging Basics.

6 lessons

89m

02

Skeleton

We will layout the core skeleton for the rig.

6 lessons

84m

03

Spine Rig

We will create the rig for the Spine/Torso area.

9 lessons

107m

04

Neck Rig

We will create the rig for the Neck and Head area.

8 lessons

67m

05

Arms Rig

We will create the setup for the Arms

7 lessons

90m

06

Fingers Rig

We will create the setup for the hand and fingers

8 lessons

103m

07

Legs Rig

We will create the setup for the legs.

10 lessons

104m

08

Twist Setup

We will create the twist setup for the limbs - arms and legs

6 lessons

122m

09

Finalizing The Rig Puppet

We will finalize the puppet rig before moving on to skinning

7 lessons

94m

10

Skinning

Once the puppet rig is ready we will proceed to skin the character mesh to the rig

14 lessons

192m

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$35
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Lifetime access · Instant start

This course includes:

  • 18h 0m of video content
  • 10 modules
  • 15+ resources
  • Lifetime access
Private Study Group
  • Exclusive Discord channel for students
  • Direct access to your instructor
  • Share progress & get feedback
Included with enrollment

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