I'll also walk you through some of the most common pitfalls to avoid and how to begin to think about what rigging is and how to approach rigging different types of things. So we'll get into some more technical aspects in Maya, it's going to be pretty interesting and fun because we'll have some creative solutions to very common problems. So we'll take it from scratch and then we'll build a rig and controls so that we can animate this character in a later course. In our case, it's going to be this skeleton character. We'll start with the basic setup with a prop, which we'll use this hat, and then we'll get into more technical aspects of rigging a character and the fundamentals that you need to understand to be able to rig whatever you'd like. This is actually the third part in a series, and you can take this part by itself because you also have all the project files needed to follow along. Course Overview: Welcome to Maya for beginners, a course about rigging. Thanks for joining me and don't forget to download the scene files so you can follow along!ġ.

Then we will move on to the more complex character rigging.īy the end of this course you will have the skills and confidence to rig most anything and will be on your way to becoming a more advanced rigger. We will start by rigging a prop and learn about pivots and how to organize a rig. But if you're an animator just interested in getting some rigging knowledge or someone new to 3D with no experience rigging then you can just start with the class first if you'd like! I recommend starting with modeling, then texturing, and then this class. This is the 3rd section in the Maya for Beginners series.

Rigging is an essential skill even for 3D artists who aren't interested in rigging it is still required knowledge at most studios even to be an animator to have some knowledge of rigging.

Let's learn what it takes to make model's move! We will give our character real bones so we can articulate the model for animation.

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