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| Rig it Right! Maya Animation Rigging Concepts, 2nd Edition from CRC Press | ||||||
 CRC Press has published Rig it Right! Maya Animation Rigging Concepts, 2nd Edition.Rig it Right! breaks down rigging so that you can achieve a fundamental understanding of the concept. The author will get you up and rigging with step-by-step tutorials covering multiple animation control types, connection methods, interactive skinning, BlendShapes, edgeloops, and joint placement, to name a few. The concept of a bi-ped is explored as a human compared to a bird character allowing you to see that a bi-ped is a bi-ped and how to problem solve for the limbs at hand. Rig it Right! will take you to a more advanced level where you will learn how to create stretchy rigs with invisible control systems and use that to create your own types of rigs. Contents includes: Chapter One: Pivot Point Props, Hierarchical animation. Chapter Two: Deformation Characters. Chapter Three: User CNTRLS Chapter Four: Utility nodes and custom attributed Chapter Five: Joints and Skinning Chapter Six: Blendshapes and Set Driven Key. Chapter Seven: Skeletons: joined or broken rigs and Orient Joint Chapter Eight: The rules of skinning and tootsie roll (proxy) GEO Chapter Nine: Upper and Lower Body, Root: Always have a cha-cha. Chapter Ten: Feet and knees. Simple, Group based and Joint based feet. Chapter Eleven: Spines: FK, Spline, SDK (Set Driven Key) Chapter Twelve: Arms, elbows and clavicles. Chapter Thirteen: Hands: SDK, SDK & Keyable CNTRLS Chapter Fourteen: Eyes, Blinks and a smiles. Chapter Fifteen: Master CNTRL and Scale-able rigs Chapter Sixteen: OMGimbal Lock Chapter Seventeen: Advanced Controls Chapter Eighteen: Stretchy Chapter Nineteen: Broken Rigs and Dangly Bits Chapter Twenty: Auto Rigging For more information, visit: * Amazon: https://amzn.to/2EmI28n * Website: crcpress.com |
