Hello, I'm fairly new to Maya and this forum. I have a couple questions about retopologizing a human character for rigging. I have a human model that I sculpted in Zbrush. I'm almost done sculpting it and I plan to export that as an .obj mesh to Maya so that I can begin retopologizing it with quad draw. After I finish…
Hey guys. I wanted to know if there is a way to get animation data from a joint and use it within the material editor. I know that you can create curves within an animation to be used within the material editor manually. What I want to know is if I can use a specific joints translation so that way even if the character is…
cool. I'm having trouble converting the guides to rigs. I set up the guide, and select "rig from guide", it creates the rig, and after completion nothing is there...and I can't locate it in the explorer. I'll read these later to hopefully find which wrong step I'm taking. I was able to set up a simple rig, and was looking…
In rig file I used Move Skin Joint tool to change position of a joint. In animation file that references the rig file, I reloaded rig file and all changes except the Moved Skin Joint have been updated. Anything I can do to refresh this change? Do I need to make the same joint adjustment in each animation file, or perhaps…
Im trying to rig a character with the Quick rig option in Maya LT. It works well but doesn't come with a hand with fingers so I created one. I have two issues, the first is that I cant mirror the joints I made, it tells me I have too many arguments, not sure what that is. Secondly I want to add these bones to my rig so…
Okay I'm using transpose master then T pose mesh with z sphere clicked on. My female mdoel is taken ddown to her lowest subdivision of 200,000 ploys, then I make the z sphere rig. Aftward and click bindmesh in the rigging tab. Then when I click Move and a sphere, in order to check how my rig is working with the model, when…
Hi everyone, Wow... haven't been on here in a while. I'm hoping you guys can help me. I'm looking for a character rig to create 3d animatics with. I used to work a lot in maya but then changed to shooting live action stuff and now I'm try to work 3d into my preproduction workflow. So what I need is a rig that is realistic…
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Hi! I need to rig in Maya a metallic bracelet for a watch I have modeled and I can't find any tutorial that covers all I need. I know It mustn't be a very difficult rigging, but I lack the skills. I just want the 3-link structure to naturally move and be able to open and close the clasp. Does anyone know about a tutorial…
Hi, My Name Is Karim Ahmed I am A 3D Character Rigger With 9 Years Experience in Character Rigs With All of Its Types (Humanoid - Cartoon - Machines - Hybrid - Cars -Animals) for Media and for Games, i know all the tricks to create a clean rig for game engines and solve rig issues inside it. I can use any 3D software and…