Rigging a character’s body is one thing – setting up the face? That’s a much more difficult challenge! This MAYA 2017 FACE RIGGING EXTENDED CUT TUTORIAL covers the solid foundational topics every character face rigger needs. Topics covered:
- Creation and placement of joints to create proper animation.
- Adding new joints and tweaking the placement of existing joints – even after the skin is bound to the skeleton!
- Synching our topology with our joints for ideal deformation.
- Adjusting topology and anatomy to animate correctly – while the mesh is already attached to the skeleton!
- Animating our joints to create emotion poses – including all the major emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, fear, and surprise.
- Painting skin weights to ensure proper deformation and animation of our face.
- Iterating on joint placement, topology shape, skin weighting, and animation, to create more appealing face shapes.
This topic is so complicated, so in-depth, that this video is just PART 1 in a multi-part series. The next videos in the series will specifically cover material not shown here, such as phonemes, set-driven-keys, and creating a control panel for animation. The crucial techniques presented here cover the hard work of establishing the initial skeleton and skin weighting – the lion’s share of the work! The very same techniques are built on top of to create mouth shapes for talking – and that whole process will be MUCH easier after watching this video!
This video assumes you’ve already seen the JOINTS and SKINNING video – or are at least familiar with the topics covered there. This tutorial is split into separate chapters based on topic, making review easy.
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• H.264 Mpeg4
• 1:25:08 running time
• 2.42 GB file size, split into a whopping 22 files
This package gets you EVERYTHING you need to model and skin your FEMALE CHARACTER MODEL. Buying all of these separately will cost you 125% more! Continue reading Maya female EXTENDED CUT tutorial videos + IMAGE PLANES →
This package includes all 3 bodybuilder EXTENDED CUT tutorial videos PLUS the body and head IMAGE PLANES! It’s everything you need to learn how to create your own muscle-bound superheroes!
The best part – you’ll save more than 25% off than buying these assets separately!
PART 1 illustrates the body creation process using a stream-lined cylinder-based creation technique
PART 2 shows how to model a high resolution and complex head – great for capturing actual likenesses of your subject matter!
PART 3 shows the projection texturing process in Mudbox. The results you get will look sophisticated and photoreal, but the work you put in will feel much easier!
And included are ALL the IMAGE PLANES used to model the character, AS WELL as the HIGH RES PHOTO REFERENCE you’ll need to texture the character in Mudbox!
The Maya 2016 JOINTS and RIGGING tutorial is a more in-depth look at the character setup and skinning process. Over an hour long, new topics include a guide on joint placement, skin weighting guidelines and best practices, and joint orients – and how the wrong joint orients can destroy your skeleton! The video is split into separate chapters, making review easy.
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• H.264 Mpeg4
• 1:11:14 running time
• 2.6 GB file size, split into 8 files
Want to learn everything you need to know to model a basic FEMALE CHARACTER MODEL? This is your package. Buying these videos individually will cost you 125% more!
PART 1 goes in depth tackling creation of the body mesh:
PART 2 address the difficult challenge of face modeling in a simple and easy to follow method – that will leave you with a perfectly quadrangulated mesh!
Part two of the ELLE female character creation series, this video goes in-depth with the head modeling process in Maya 2016. The focus here is on creating a properly topologized mesh – but also on creating an attractive and versatile face that can be reused again and again. Particular time is spent discussing anatomy tweaks and tips to get the right look.
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• H.264 Mpeg4
• 48:28 running time
• 1.11 GB file size
Or, buy it together with the BODY MODELING video for a discount!
Part one of the ELLE female character creation series, this video goes in-depth with the character modeling process in Maya 2016. Three times as long as the video on my YouTube channel, more time is spent elaborating on crucial topology creation issues, like the shoulder and the hips. And much more time is spent showing the anatomy creation process – which is absolutely vital to creating a compelling female body mesh!
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• H.264 Mpeg4
• 53:34 running time
• 1.11 GB file size
The completed CHARACTER MODEL from the FEMALE character modeling series. It is ready to drop into your game, animation, or project.
Includes:
- Complete character mesh, ready for rigging, texturing, and sculpting
- Completed UV mapping
- Includes simple eyeballs with textures
- Includes placeholder hair geometry & textures
- Maya 2015 .MB file
- .FBX file exported from Maya 2015
