Do you remember the Fuzz they did back then ? :poly128: aaaaah the Gnomon days !! On edit: OOh! look a new forum, how do you like it ? so just i don't forget to say something: at the time rigging a zombie like character with an open torso section with a live beating heart and animated skinned flexible interior organs with…
Yeah the old Kinematics series is wayyyy out of data. From 2002 or so. I remember in the first one Alex Alverez sitting in front of a giant CRT monitor. You could probably still follow along, but a lot has changed.
Naaaah! Im not too sure about that. They are still doable in Maya13 and Up. I'm more incline to think it's a marketing decision. I'd like to have the real answer.
The easiest place to start character rigging in Maya would be Youtube. There's many many free tutorials https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=character+rigging+in+Maya If i were you, i would spend a few days and do ALL of the free Youtube videos and then look at Gnomon 3d workshop for Maya character rigging…