3D Animation and Rigging

Course details

When it comes to bringing believable 3D characters to life in Autodesk Maya, there's always more to learn. In this weekly series, get practical tips that can help you enhance your 3D animation and rigging workflow, as well as generally work smarter in Maya. Instructor George Maestri covers how to mimic stop-motion techniques using replacement animation, write scripts to speed up your rigging process, and much more.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Create rigging and animation with Maya
02 - Taking advantage of the exercise files

1. September 2020

03 - Creating replacement animation
04 - Using offset parent matrices
05 - Scripting offset parent matrices
06 - Animation timeline bookmarks

2. October 2020

07 - Using proximity pins
08 - Using UV pins
09 - Proximity wrapping
10 - The Rivet command
11 - Animating blinks

3. November 2020

12 - Changing eye direction
13 - Eye direction and head turns
14 - Rigs for dilating pupils
15 - Matrices instead of constraints in rigs

4. December 2020

16 - Using the Pose Editor in skinning
17 - Scaling rigs
18 - Picking up objects

5. January 2021

19 - Advanced snapping for joint placement
20 - Bonus tools in Maya for rigging
21 - Setting up a ribbon rig
22 - Rigging a flexible arm with ribbons

6. February 2021

23 - Adding deformers to a ribbon rig
24 - Skinning ribbon rigs
25 - Understanding animation layers
26 - Walk cycle to progressive animation

7. March 2021

27 - Animating overlap quickly
28 - Working with HumanIK
29 - Rokoku motion assets
30 - Smoothing out creases with Delta Mush

8. April 2021

31 - Controlling stretch with tension
32 - Using nodes instead of constraints
33 - Cartoon eyes using lattices
34 - Rigging cartoon eyes
35 - A pose or T pose

9. May 2021

36 - Using UVs to select vertices
37 - Copying skin weights
38 - Import export skin weights
39 - Creating a head aim control

10. June 2021

40 - Namespaces for characters
41 - Edit characters with pattern rename
42 - Edit animation in the Time Editor
43 - Change walk cycle direction with Redirect

11. Q3 2021

44 - Interactive Skin Bind tool
45 - Move Skinned Joint tool
46 - Component tags
47 - Morph deformers
48 - Solidify deformer
49 - Ghosting Editor
50 - Component Editor tips
51 - Spring IK solvers
52 - Maya muscle system setup
53 - Connecting Maya muscles to skin
54 - Keeping characters centered
55 - Basic hair sweep mesh
56 - Using Quick Rig

Conclusion

57 - That's a wrap