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Character Animation in Maya

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Character Rigging in Maya

Easily the essentials of character rigging with nearly 2 hours of interactive training. Great for new and begining users.

Popular highlights include:

* Building Surfaces * Skeleton Basics * Local Rotations * Foot Controls * Foot Rigs * Hand Controls * Hand Rigs * Spline IK * Pole Vector Constraints * Control Icons * Forward Kinematics (FK) * Inverse Kinematics (IK)

Character Binding and Skinning in Maya

Easily the essentials of character binding with nearly 1.5 hours of project-based training. Great for new and beginning users.

Popular highlights include:

* Rigid Binding * Smooth Binding * Flexors * Muscles * Indirect Binding * Character Development * Set Membership tool * Paint Weights Tools * Set Driven Keys * Influence Objects * Character Sets

Character Setup in Maya

Bring life to your character animations and easily learn the fundamentals of Character Setup in Maya. Contains over 3 hours of project-based training. Ideal for beginning users.

Popular highlights include:

* Intuitive Forearm Rig * Reverse Foot Rolls * Hip Sway Controls * Shoulder Controls * Body Controls * FK/IK Blending Techniques * Character Binding * Local Rotations * Pivot Adjustment * Multi-layer Control * Spline IK * Component Editor * Paint Weights Tools * Alternate Methods of Adjusting Weights

(about 180 minutes)

This video was added to our catalog on March 21, 2007 in Digital Art - 3D::Animation.

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Reviewer: Steffan M.

This DVD is for Maya 4.0 but if you are patient you can figure out which tool the animator is using. The naming of tools and their location is different in version 8. All in all a good dvd on rigging. Took me a while to complete.

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