[ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Creature-Rigging-Science-Setup-ebook/dp/B00AYIKN8M/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1402317974&sr=1-2&keywords=rigging+3ds+max"]Digital Creature Rigging: The Art and Science of CG Creature Setup in 3ds Max eBook: Stewart Jones: Amazon.co.uk: Books[/ame] For free you can "look inside"…
I have that book. It's good, but you really need to have a decent understanding of rigging to get the most out of it. Digital Tutors offers some good starting points. When I started learning to build rigs I went that route, but in hindsight, learning the Biped system first and then building on that, probably would have…
Biped is a fairly closed system that can animate bipedal characters, it has some support for quadrupeds but there are other tools that are much better and more flexible. Biped is rock solid because it operates inside of a set range of parameters. It knows what it can do and refuses to do anything it can't. It is also…