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Facial Rigging for Beginners in Maya

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Facial Rigging for Beginners in Maya

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About Facial Rigging for Beginners in Maya

Introduction

01 What's Rigging

02 Getting familiar with maya's interface

03 Preparing a 3d model for rigging

04 Working with joints in maya

05 More on joints

06 Creating the Neck, Head and Jaw bones

07 Stylized Eyes

08 Adding joints for the Eyes

09 Adding joints for the Eyelids

10 Adding a Joint for the Nose

11 Creating Ear Joints

12 Introducing The Skinning Process

13 Skinning The Eyes

14 Skinning the Face

15 Refining Skin Deformations Using the Paint Skin Weights Tool

16 Working With The Hammer Skin Weights Tool

17 Skinning The Eyelids

18 Working With The Components Editor

19 Mirroring skin weights

20 Introducing the FreeFormDeformer Lattice

21 Controlling the Eyebrows Using The Lattice Deformer

22 Introduction to Clusters

23 Controling The Eyebrows Lattice using Clusters

24 Introduction to The Expression Editor

25 Setting Up a Fleshy Eye System

26 Fixing The Eyes

27 Organizing Our Scene

28 Building the Head and Neck Controls

29 Constraining The Head and Neck Controls

30 Cleaning Up The Transform Values of Our Constrained Objects

31 Setting Up Controls for The Upper and Lower Jaws

32 Building Animation Controls for The Eyes

33 Constraining Eyes Using The Aim Constraint

34 Difference between FK and IK Systems

35 Constraining Eyes Using The IK System

36 Working with Custom Attributes

37 Adding Blinking Controls

38 Building a Dynamic Parenting System for The Eyes

39 Building Controls for the Eyebrows 2

40 Creating Global Controls for the Eyebrows

41 Setting Up Constraints for The Eyebrows

42 Finishing The Eyebrows

43 Using the Wrap Deformer to Rig the Eyebrows and Mustach Geometries

44 Controlling The Tongue (Part 1)

45 Controlling The Tongue (Part 2)

46 Adding A Nose Animation Control

47 Adding Ear Controls

48 Creating Facial Expression Shapes

49 Setting up The Facial Expressions System

50 Finishing Our Facial Expressions Setup

51 Cleaning up Our Rig

Conclusion and Assignment

What You Will Learn?

  • Learn the A-Z's that you need to be able to create amazing 3D character rigs and animations with the most popular and powerful 3D art program, "Autodesk Maya".
  • As the industry standard 3D animation software, learning Autodesk Maya is a great skill to help you land a job in the film, music and gaming industry. In this course, you'll learn how to create and build very robust facial rigs ready for animation from scratch..
  • Beginner to the world of 3D Rigging and 3D Animation? .
  • We start super simple so you need no prior experience of Autodesk Maya! With our online tutorials, you'll be amazed at what you can achieve. We believe project-based learning is the best way to learn Rigging inside Autodesk Maya..
  • Learn by doing real world projects!.
  • This course is project-based, so you will applying your new skills immediately to real 3D models..
  • Throughout this entire course, you'll be working on one of the very famous characters, our favorite super hero "Super Mario" and learn how to bring a rather stiff to life using 3D Rigging and Animation..
  • All the project files will be included, as well as additional references and resources - you'll never get stuck!.
  • By the end of the course, you'll truly be inspired by your own skills, and confident in using Autodesk Maya..
  • Premium Support.
  • Benefit from our world-class support anytime and everywhere!.
  • The Best Part?.
  • On top of that, we're going to have fun and end each video in a positive way that will leave us ready for whatever maya or life throws at us!.
  • This is what's also included in the package:.
  • Up-to-date HD-quality videos, that are easy to search and reference.
  • 9+ hours of easy-to-follow tutorials.
  • Downloadable project files for every step of the course (solutions included).
  • Premium support (Q&A) to help you as you take the course.
  • This course is for you if....
  • ... you want to gain a true and deep understanding of 3D Rigging and Facial Rigging in particular..
  • ... you have been trying to learn Rigging in maya but: 1) still don't really understand Maya, or 2) still don't feel confident to rig you own characters..
  • ... you already know 3d rigging basics and are looking for more advanced topics. This course includes more awesome and very useful techniques!.
  • ... you want to get started with 3d rigging and animation in maya: Autodesk Maya is a great and very powerful software for 3D Rigging and Animation!.
  • Ready to have fun?.
  • If so, then start this adventure today, and join me in this amazing journey in 3D rigging!.
  • I am looking forward to seeing you on the course! Remember 3D Rigging and animation is all about having fun too. So have fun along the way!!.