Basic bipedal character rigging setup in Maya - Part 7 of 7

In this tutorial series you will learn a basic way to rig a bipedal character. Stepping through the joint creation process through to the creation of IK an supporting animation helpers.. this tutorial ends in a basic rundown on how to paint skin weight for deformation.

This tutorial will be followed at a later date by and advanced setup tutorial..

Category:

Education

Tags:

• maya
• 2012
• tutorial
• rigging
• setup
• rig
• animation
• IK
• joints
• skin
• weights

[wukasz91]

Super helpful tutorial! Thanks a bunch, it may have saved my life. Is there a way to save a key frame of the entire model and not just the individual joints?

[1976Bukkits]

@wukasz91 You could look at character sets..

[xtk7ff]

Thank you! These tutorials are really good, clear and so helpful!

I have followed all of your steps ( I think ). But I'm not able to transform the scale of the entire set up to fit the scene I built for it, should I be able to do it after following all of your steps, or do I need to do something extra? Like parent them to a master control curve or something?

[1976Bukkits]

@xtk7ff

Yeah.. scale is something you wanna sort out before you rig.. otherwise you'll have the problem you're having now..

As such I don't make my rigs to be scaled.. it is possible but normally not a good idea..

[pso3c]

thank you, this tutorial was so helpful

[predatortheme]

Thank you very much man. Iv followed the whole tutorial with my own Ninja Mesh. and its JUST perfect... thank you very much. Can you please make a tutorial to "add several meshes to the same bones and being able to change them like a collection of hats :P?