An Essential Introduction to Maya Character Rigging

by Cheryl Cabrera

Chapter 7Wrapping Up the Set Up

Old Man by Colin Senner (2006).

The Pickkup by Rob T. Miller (2004).

Wrap-up workflow.

The Channel Control window.

Wombat by Brett Rapp (2006).

An Essential Introduction to Maya Character Rigging

by Cheryl Cabrera

Assignment 7.1: Cleaning Up the Scene File for

Animation

Creating the Master_ctrl.

The OUTLINER hierarchy after parenting everything to the Master_ctrl.

The OUTLINER hierarchy after creating the constraint groups for the IKhand controls.

The spine moves out of the skeletal structure because it is being controlled by boththe skin deformer and the parent controller.

Unchecking the Inherits Transform on the spine curve in the Attribute Editor.

An Essential Introduction to Maya Character Rigging

by Cheryl Cabrera

Assignment 7.2: Preparing the Scene File for

Skinning

Creating a Quick Select Set for the skinnable joints.

Turning IK off in the arms.

An Essential Introduction to Maya Character Rigging

by Cheryl Cabrera

Optional Assignment 7.3: Creating Additional Tools for

Animation

The Script Editor.

Selecting all of the curves in the perspective window.

Creating a customized selection button.

Creating customizable shelf icons.

Using the shelf editor to change the icon image.