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…
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.
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…