Our Rigging Dojo Alum and recent student of our API course, Alex Widener, was kind enough to write up how to get Xcode working with Maya. The full PDF is here along with the DMG file. XcodeMaya.pdf MayaXCodeFiles.dmg The requirements according to Autodesk are to be using Xcode 5.0.2 with the 10.8 SDK(comes […]
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Use these Mirror Skin Weights Options from Rigging Dojo to improve your results. Maya skinning tools can be picky at times but as long as you don’t let it have to many choices, like a 2 year old child, then things can go very well. Here are our recommended settings to get good results 99% […]
A rig is the animators pencil, as such it has to allow the animator to get from pose A to B with out freaking out (aka wobbling) and should also be editable from the graph editor to create predictable results during the polish pass.
None of this is possible with out having first set up a clean skeleton with proper joint orients (how the joints aim) and Second controlling the order that Maya applies the EULER rotation animation to the transform node (rotation order).
Are you already a subscriber to our Artist in Residence program? If yes, leave a comment and let us and others know how it has benefited you, we love feedback. With several current students and others posting for help with skinning and deformation over on Twitter, we wanted to help by sharing some helpful tips […]
Update: 2018 Entire video set, scripts and extra tips are now available as a free online course. https://ondemand.riggingdojo.com/store/vLpV26La Grateful: Here are the slides from my talk at GDC. None of it could have happened, the talk or me using Filmbox years ago and more with out the man, the legend the mega […]