Maya CHARACTER SETUP AND RIGGING extended cut tutorial package

Maya 2017 FACE RIGGING EXTENDED CUT part 1

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

Maya female EXTENDED CUT tutorial videos + IMAGE PLANES

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 →

Bodybuilder EXTENDED CUT 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!

ALL female modeling EXTENDED CUT videos!

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!

Maya female HEAD MODELING FOR ANIMATION tutorial video – EXTENDED CUT

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!

Maya FEMALE BODY modeling tutorial video – EXTENDED CUT

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

completed FEMALE CHARACTER MODEL with UVs!

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

ALL bodybuilder EXTENDED CUT videos!

This modeling series teaches you everything you need to know about modeling and texturing this bodybuilder character. It is focused on capturing exaggerated male anatomy. The subject’s well developed musculature is ideal for those still trying to learn proper anatomy – it also works well for creating the style of idealized body common in popular media.

Part one of the bodybuilder character creation series,

this video goes in-depth with the character modeling process in Maya. Twice as long as the video on my YouTube channel, more time is spent discussing crucial topology and anatomy issues like the shoulder and the hips.

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• H.264 Mpeg4
• 41:41 running time
• 1.07 GB file size, split into 2 files

Part two of the bodybuilder character creation series is head modeling for animation – an in-depth look at this crucial modeling process in Maya. The face is an especially difficult region to nail – likenesses are hard to acheive, and building topology to fit the complicated facial animation requirements is very challenging. In the video, I address both topics, talking about how to model the topology correctly, and then matching anatomy to the reference images used.

• 1080P
• H.264 Mpeg4
• 37:54 running time
• 885 MB file size, split into 2 files

Part three is CHARACTER TEXTURING in Mudbox!Mudbox makes it a snap to project high-quality photoreference onto our models, quickly and easily creating ultra-realistic characters. This video shows the basics of projection painting, and then moves on to the advanced tricks that really make our textures stand out – blending and color matching, spot detailing, and even painting tricky areas like hands.

• 1080P
• H.264 Mpeg4
• 33:51 running time
• 608 MB file size, split into 2 files

Maya bodybuilder HEAD MODELING for animation tutorial video – EXTENDED CUT

Use the IMAGE PLANES I created of the character to make the modeling process easier.