Rigging

Rigging Resources

Maya

Introduction to rigging in Maya (intermediate level)

Create 3D Characters tutorial set (This is a paid tutorial series but is very good)

Animator Friendly Rigging (Paid, hardcore Maya rigging series by ex-Dreamworks Animator Jason Schleifer - it’s a little bit old now but still relevant)

MAYA

Character Rigging (with Reza)

Facial Rigging (with Reza)

Rigging - Adding Joints in Maya - (set preferred angle)

3ds Max (old videos)

Various Rigging Tutes (note: some of these videos are nearly 15 years old)

Intro to Character Rigging - Paul Neale

Mechanical Rigging (Gears) - Paul Neale

Mechanical Rigging (Robot Leg) - Paul Neale

Intro to Rigging - (Digital Tutors/Pluralsight)

Intro to CAT - (Digital Tutors/Pluralsight)

Rigging and Animating a Creature for a game

Quadruped Rigging - (Digital Tutors/Pluralsight)

Rigging Wings - (Digital Tutors/Pluralsight)

Car Rigging - (Digital Tutors/Pluralsight)

Using CAT

Rigging a Game Character

Animating Facial Expressions Using Morpher Modifier

Stretchy bones tutorial

Facial Rigging (3DSMax)

Principles for facial animation- slides (how to lipsync, designing face shapes, best topology)

Facial Rigging with Blended Morphs - Paul Neale

Facial rigging with Morph targets - Qantm slides

Facial Animation Workshop: download dialogue track

Skinning - 3ds Max

Skinning with the Voxel Solver

Skinning a Model - Part 1

Skinning a Model - Part 2

Skinning in 3ds Max

2D Rigging

In Flash (Animate):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vg5-HcAXdg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L3W4QsOgQk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdzJKH0Stek&t=494s

In After Effects:

https://rainboxprod.coop/en/tools/duik/

Creating Lipsync mouth shapes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yRFBgojsHk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9GvkYFqwjs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJgAUkjsomA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i63vPXJ00r0

Duik

Get Duik - link

Quick Demo - IK rig with Puppet Pins

Full introduction to Duik - Lynda

Rigging Systems

Advanced Skeleton 5 - Video Tut.

Advanced Skeleton 5

HumanIK (Built into Maya, see links for more info)

http://www.digitaltutors.com/tutorial/640-Advanced-HumanIK-Workflows-in-Maya

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3sv1W5NIdg

Rapid Rig for Maya

ZooToolbox

ZooToolbox files and template rig

Super Simple Rig for 3ds Max

Working with CAT

Creating a custom CAT rig

Please make sure you read the terms and conditions on each rig’s website and follow them.

Report abuse