Rig it Right! Maya Animation Rigging Concepts - Brossura

O'Hailey, Tina

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0240820797 ISBN 13: 9780240820798

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2013

Riassunto

Rigging a character can be a complicated undertaking. Move from a bi-pedal character to a quad- or poly-pedal and, well, things just got real. Where do you begin?

Unlike all of those button-pushing manuals out there, Rig it Right! breaks down rigging so that you can achieve a fundamental understanding of the concept, allowing you to rig more intuitively in your own work. Veteran animation professor Tina O’Hailey will get you up and rigging in a matter of hours 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. After you have moved beyond basic bi-pedal characters, 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.

Su questo libro

L'autore

Tina O’Hailey is the Dean of the School of Digital Media at SCAD; prior to that, O'Hailey was the Associate Chair of Animation and a professor of animation. She spent the first part of her career working as an industry trainer for Walt Disney Feature Animation, Dreamworks animation and Electronic Arts.

Contenuti

Part One: Basic Concepts presented in applied tutorials

Introduction: Rules of Rigging and taking control of your outliner/hypergraph/history

Chapter One:  Pivot Point Props, Heirarchical animation.
Chapter Two: Deformation Characters.
Chapter Three: Adding Animator CNTRLS
Chapter Four: CNTRLS continued
Chapter Five: Joints and Skinning
Chapter Six: Blendshapes and Set Driven Key.

Part Two: Taking those concepts and building your first biped rig

Introduction: Things to avoid with your first biped. Introduction to Referencing and rigging pipelines.

Chapter Seven: Skeletons
Chapter Eight: The rules of skinning and tootsie roll (proxy) GEO
Chapter Nine: Upper Body, Lower Body, Root
Chapter Ten: Feet and knees.
Chapter Eleven: Spines
Chapter Twelve: Arms, elbows and clavicals.
Chapter Thirteen: Hands
Chapter Fourteen: Head
Chapter Fifteen: Master CNTRL and Scaleable rigs
Chapter Sixteen: Bulletproofing and Testing
Chapter Eighteen: Troubleshooting

Part 3:  Advanced Techniques

Facial setups

Stretchy Advanced Blendshapes 

Reverse Spine?  Why?

Quadrapeds vs Bipeds (15 pages)

Muscle Systems

Dynamic Hair & Fur

Automation

Automated rigging continued

Low Res/High Res rigs

Character Rigs: Armadillo 

Character Rigs: Frog

 

Each Chapter will include:

Detailed Concept Analysis with Video Content

Fully updated Rigs with Models

Interviews

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0240820797
• ISBN 13: 9780240820798
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 304