Digital-Tutors – Advanced Character Rigging in Maya

Posted by unowen on 2013/01/02
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Advanced | 9h 20m | 3.26 GB | Project Files 52 MB | Required Software: Autodesk Maya 2013

In this series of Maya tutorials we will learn advanced character rigging techniques in Maya. We’ll start by creating a modular rig we can insert into our skeletons for flexibility and speed. We’ll learn how to create and utilize custom tools to work smarter. We’ll learn how to create IK FK systems, and learn how to enhance these systems to produce more exaggerated results. We’ll even explore ways we can create non-flipping twist rigs that do a great job at holding volume.
By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have a solid grasp of rigging characters and be able to use the techniques on your own characters.

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65 comments on “Digital-Tutors – Advanced Character Rigging in Maya”

  1. That character looks retarded just like the Maya users. Bring on the flame!

  3. Happy new year suckers! But what the fuck?! Yes! Retarded character tutorial for dummies. No thank you!

  4. You need advanced character rigging techniques to achieve that retarded feel!

  5. Folks, you are being very rude. Thanks for sharing this wonderful course files from Digital Tutors, which is the Character Rigg’s this boy. Maya is today, along with 3ds Max, one of the most widely used software in the world for computer animation, motion graphics, VFX and more. Thanks anyway, at heart, \UN Owen\, by providing these files. hugs

  6. we live in this society, where we want things for free, we get things for free and we still complain. NICE.

    thanks for uploading this.

  7. Come on, they were not really complaining
    I think they were very funny.
    I love just to read this sometimes.
    Happy New year complainers and not-complainers!

  9. Thanks, maybe its a good tutorial, cant tell if its good or bad have to see it first.

  10. Cool, by the end of this tutorial, I will be able to rig my own retarded characters!

  11. It’s nothing against uploader, but that character is really retarded as most of DT tutorials. Look at his fucking hand! Rigging like a pro.

  12. Thanks for this!
    And I would very much like to see the work of Crackhead and other infantile commentators. I just cant imagine serious animators posting such retarded messages. I imagine the boy in this tutorial looks like a genius compared to them.

    • I wonder if you ever tried anything else than Maya. In your sorry ignorace you think you work with the best tool in existance. This is NOTHING to do with who and what can do, this is a simple fact about tools. There simply are better tools than others. Objectively. But this is blasphemy for people like, because you’re into it like one is into religion. What you know to be true must be true because it’s true. Sad…

      • And to not keep you waiting, I’ll give you two examples of apps that are better than Maya: Softimage and Houdini. And please don’t bring popularity as an argument for Maya, because that is as retarded as Maya’s users are. Are you a Maya user? :P

      • You must (hopefully) realize that I don’t truly hold the belief that ALL maya users are retarded (some of them work with Maya because they have no choice) but one can’t help but wonder about the number of poor ignorant folks that blindly choose Maya because they heard it’s the most used in film bla-bla without even trying something else.
        Between us, I honestly think you’re the immature one.

        • 3 replies within 10 minutes? Yeah totally not desperate bro.

          Who said we haven’t tried any other apps besides maya? awfully Naive of you to jump to conclusions like that. I myself have played with Maya, 3ds max, blender, houdin, cinema4d, softimage, modo, and 3d coat, Zbrush, Mudbox, Motionbuilder, and Topogun. There were things i liked and disliked about all of them. But i made sure that anything i was able to make in one app, i learned how to do it in another. However I still often go back to maya, the app I started with, simply because i have the most experience in it, and i work fastest in it due to familiarity. I choose speed because my job dictates it. The tool doesnt really matter, its mainly down to your skill level as an artist. which seems to be pretty low based on the way you attack anyone and everyone in every thread. also, your the only artist i’ve ever seen attempting to shove softimage down others throats. like sure, its pretty cool, but it honestly has one of the worst navigation control schemes i’ve ever seen :P

  14. A tool is a tool.Why would I use a spanner instead of my Swiss knife when I know that the Swiss knife will do exactly what I want it to do?
    All this talk about what program is the best is a load of bullshit.
    If you can’t make a decent result with any professional package out there I suggest you start frying them burgers at McDonalds instead.
    I happen to use Maya and have used it since beta3,but I started out in 3Dstudio and Softimage in the first place.
    You are only angry because the small community that uses your program makes DT see no profit in making tutorials for them.
    How retarded of you not to try out Maya!

  16. Crackhead, you have a serious issue imo. Its not the tool, its what is being used at the studio to get the job done. What is being used is reasoned influenced by a hand full of things. Stop being an F-tart with people here, maya/xsi/houdini. All nice apps I use two of those, and will use the third if asked to learn it on the job. Adapt and dont be rude.

    Install MAYA NOW ! hahaha

    • Muscle system yes, but robust? We could talk a lot on that. Softimage has a third party being developed with ICE right now and maybe in the near future the dev team will implement one. Building tools within XSI with ICE is amazingly powerful a thing that Maya users don’t even dream to have. OK, maybe they do dream.

      • Thats my point. XSI is soooo awesome but just because of ICE, without ICE what can XSI do, that Maya can’t?

      • Dev team to implement a muscle system? ahaha, YOU are the dreamer here. The filosophy of ICE is: Do It Yourself.

      • Don’t get me wrong, I like XSI too, but had to jump to Maya just because of lack of muscle and explicit units, of course I could build my own tools in ICE, but was easier to me just learn Maya, and I don’t miss ICE at all.

        • If you’re scared of driving a Ferrari of course you won’t miss it.

          • Ok dude, go drive your Ferrari, I’m gonna fly with my Foxhound!

  18. Every time the argument X vs Y application is brought up one or a few retards can’t understand a simple mental or empiric exercise of comparing two applications and bring up the “X or Y is nothing unless you’re a good user bla bla” crap.
    I mean are you autistic or something? Can’t focus? It’s like saying BMW’s is better Fiat and everytime a few fucktards pop up and say they’re nothing without the driver or other similar shit, your brains simply can’t conceive the notion of one product being better than the other.
    My theory that Maya users are retards starts to gather more and more evidence.

    • It is very strange that when it comes to “digital art” the tool becomes soooo important.Have you ever heard the same discussion about what brush Rembrandt or Picasso used??
      This is why the so called digital artform still can’t compete with traditional art.
      It is very ironic that you are working in the worlds best program and still Maya-users get to work on the greatest films.I wonder why?

      Lack of talent maybe?But that is only my 2 cents….

  19. Popularity. It’s the answer to your wondering and if you have half a brain you’ll know that popularity is a result of many things combined where quality loses its %age weight to other things like timing, marketing, etc.
    Maya users get to work on the greatest films because most studios work with Maya as their pipelines are old and hard to change. Some of them do change them however, slowly but surely most of them will migrate to Softimage and Houdini. Wait and see.

  20. And Jughead, you’re the classic Maya user. “maya’s great because big studios use it ne-ne , ne-ne, ne-ne…”. Didn’t I already say that this argument is almost as retarded as Maya users are?

  21. It is a retarded statement. Studios using it does not mean its better in all ways. But there is a reason. We can agree on that c0ckhead….
    Maya lives, xsi dies…whats your point again?

    • Hey fatty, If you can’t muster anything better than that it’s for the better to simply stay off the internet, you’re making it look bad.

      • Just not willing to put in the effort for you sackface. You are just getting old and cant adapt, fueled with anger. You should perhaps consider a retirement plan. Cheerio

        • Going from Softimage to Maya is not simply adaptation, but involution. Everybody’s getting old you idiot!

      • @Farten. And I was wondering where that rotten egg stink was coming from? LOL. Softimage FTW.

        Just having fun. You can make jokes of me too. Just don’t involve relatives. Thanks.

      • Says the development team that moved on to nicer projects…hahahah

        • Show me the post where Luc and the others say that SI is going to be ditched. Unless you show me that all I see is obese’s female intuition. Ha Ha.

        • Read this http://area.autodesk.com/inhouse/bts/triggerfish_from_cape_town_to_the_world

    • I am proud of myself too. I was fingered at the age of 8 and thought I could never voice my word again, after what happened to me. But now I see, it is not so true. Thank you for the support.

      • By looking at your red logo one can know that you’re not the only true Crackhead. You’re just a lame sorry excuse of a human being if not a an internet bot on a mission to spew as much stupidity as robotly possible.

  23. hahahha having a laugh :) this crackhead dude is as dumb and stubborn as it gets ! Thanks for the laugh you little git

  26. Ha, ha, ha! A discussion delicious to read, have drawn blood, ha, ha, ha!
    But the truth is this! No matter what software you’re using, but who is the one behind!
    That’s it!
    Amen!

  27. umm….wow first of thanks alot for the tutorial but to the guys waring over everything im a 3ds max user all the way but sometimes i go ahead and work in blender or Maya just for fun sake modeling is modeling its the artist and his/her abilities that should shine through the crowd not the UI.

  29. >3 deformers per “flexi-plane” = >30 deformers per rig = >fucking no thank you

  30. Crackhead you just sound like the common softimage user that makes me embarrased of being a Softimage user. I have been working in Softimage for 5 or 6 years and it is the best software for me and my needs. I love its modeling, UvUnwrapping, rigging, animation, lighting and compositig tools. Still not perfect, i have work with both maya and 3ds max ( and with modo recently ) and it is easy to see that Softimage is awesome but still not perfect. It always come to the software you are happy with and your experience with it. I gotta say that as a modeler i dont work confortable in maya withouth diamant or nex ( tools that make any other software suck so much includin softimage ) but In this years of experience I have met very good artists ( that u are calling retarded ) creatig stuff with this more simple or not updated tools. Now tell me one thing, do you really thing that s key navigation is better than what the rest of software use? I just got used to it but it is really annoying. Do you think that working with a software where you can not even set up units as cm is fine? You are really wrong. Do you think that marking menus are slower than hotkeys? If so you’ve got a really bad condition. Do you think softimage SDK is gives you as much freedom as MEL? You might come up with an ICE answer, but still dude, Maya might no be the most awesome software by default but studios like it and many people do. Softimage will be better always for me but still there are thounsands of things that maya has and xsi does not. So stop being a stupid fanatic talking about stuff you dont k ow about and stop insulting people for no reasons. You really arethe sort of softimage user that makes the rest of us look like fanatics. If you wanna complaint do it against autodesk and stop saying shit about people that you dont even know.

  31. Hello…
    I just want to say that all these insulting people are pathetic!! Childish and imature, you can read that they havint grown up yet… whether you are 2 or 60.. act your age…… sis….. thats whats wrong with this world .. hate without cause…..
    i am new to maya and i must stil download these files… thanks alot Owen… i have been looking for good rigging tutorials…
    just looking at the picture you can clearly see that you meant to give your character that look…. i think its done very well and i am sure that with the knowledge that you share here that the possibilitys are endless…..

    Those who love have God inside them and “Love one another like i have loved you” – Jesus…

    Clearly most of these insulting people don’t listen to God so just ignore them….
    God-bless and thank you…

  32. Hey everyone, I have and is currently using a maya rigging course from digital tutors “character rigging for production, maya 2011” I’m using maya 2013, should I look at this course, is it the same thing with the same techniques as the course I have now??

  33. I have and is currently using a rigging course by digital tutors called “character rigging for production in maya 2011” I have maya 2013, should I consider this course or does it use the same techniques as the one from 2011?? Thank’s in advance.

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