Week 4

Auto Rigging - Skinning

Animation Production Planning

This week:

Automtic Rigging using Rapid Rig
Skinning
Animation production planning

Rapid Rig

uploading Mel into custom selves

uploading Mel scripts on Mac OS X

Installing auto rig: Rapid Rig

using Rapid Rig

Skinning

Heat map Skinning

Autodesk Video Explaining different bind methods

Geodesic Voxel skinning

Autodesk Video Explaining different bind methods

Skinning over view

Omid's overview of skinning

Painting skin weightsJoin George Maestri for an in-depth discussion in this video Painting skin weights, part of Maya 2013 Essential Training: 5 Animation Tools

Binding skin using Smooth BindJoin George Maestri for an in-depth discussion in this video Binding skin using Smooth Bind, part of Maya: Character Rigging

3D World Video tutorial on painting weights

Quick Rigging Process

setup rapid rig guides
create the rig
skin the model to the hierarchy using geodesic voxel
create test animation that fully articulates body
tweak skin with skin weight painting tool and componenet editor.

Animation Production Planning

rough ideas
schedule
- what are your known factors - stages of production, length of animation, number of characters, type of animation, rendering etc
- estimate time for each part of production
- deadline
- plan stages - set realistic milestones. If your plan doesn't seem possible in the time, change the plan or plan to work more hours!
script
thumbnails
storyboard
animatic
layout
reference
blocking
spline
finessing
lighting
rendering
editing/delivery

Next Week...

Next week we will look at adding a facial rig.

Please have your brief animations scripted and storyboarded by the next session.

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