Skeleton Setup Tutorial

This quick tutorial shows how I go about setting up skeletons for my character, using just the joint creation tool, and a simple MEL command to adjust local rotation axes. The finished half skeleton can be rigged with my Rig-o-matic MEL script, available here:
http://www.3dcental.com/rigomatic/rigomatic.html

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• CG
• skeleton
• joint
• setup
• rigging
• Maya
• 3D

[mikelly321]

this is really hard to follow without sound, especially with the difficulty seeing the menu items in such a small video. your rigomatic tutorial is 1000 times better.

[thatstudio]

Thanks for the comment. You're right - this would be a lot clearer with audio. I'll try to post a version with audio sometime soon. Thanks again,

Jason

[ffoecaf2006]

what version is this?

[thatstudio]

Maya version 8.

[instert94]

and how do i select a joint?.. my maya just keeps selecting stuff of my model, like faces and edges.. D:

[TanukiTengu]

@yksnimus  lol

[yksnimus]

Damn maya fucking setup...can someone tell me how I make my joints act as joints? Rotating my parent joints just change the orientation of the childs, it doesnt rotate the child arround the parent..fucking stupid behavior, on maya ple I have it normal as default, how I adjust it on maya 2010?

[theonlyreallaz]

don't call it tutorial.

[martinez00]

wow this sucks, slow it down idiot

[masterod1]

looks like it is speedup too.. but if you know your tools.. you should be fine

[keltar2007]

@altfut Select the first joint of the chain, Under your animations tab, go to Skeleton>Mirror joint (from X to Y I think)

[MustafaAlqaragholy]

i am having issues with the part when we selevct the joints and then rotation them. someone please explain to me how its supposded to be done