

Rig it Right! Maya Animation Rigging Concepts (Computers and People) is available at Amazon ( US | CA | UK | DE | FR | IT | ES | JP | CN) 361 Pages 2009 Rig it Right Maya Animation Rigging Concepts, Second Edition.

Arms, Elbows, and Clavicles: Single-chain, Triple-chain with Wrist Twist (SDK or Cluster)įocal Press has provided this book for the review.Spines: FK, Spline, SDK (Set Driven Key).Feet and Knees: Simple, Group-based, and Joint-based Feet.Upper Body, Lower Body, Root: Always Have a Cha-cha.

Here's the list of chapters and what you can expect to learn: It's a great book to get to practice and improve on your rigging. There are 17 rigs used throughout as examples. The link to the tutorial files are located at the back cover. The text is written in a conversational tone which is quite a pleasure to read. There are accompanying screenshots but they can be a bit too small at times though, making it difficult to see the pop-up menus, but they are in the easy-to-follow instructions anyway. It's hands-on tutorial style from the start so it's quite easy to absorb what's being taught. Last part are on advanced techniques, basically additional techniques to achieve particular rigs, movement and controls that aren't achievable with basic rigging. Book excerpt: Breaking it down so that you can achieve a fundamental understanding of the concept, this book will get you up and rigging with step-by-step tutorials covering multiple animation control types. This book was released on 2018 with total page 256 pages.
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Second part covers the rigging of a biped, from head to feet, and wings (see the bird on the cover?). Full book Rig it Right Maya Animation Rigging Concepts Second Edition. The first part has all the basic concepts, which are all the tricks and techniques of the software and how you can use them to rig. There are three parts to the book with 19 chapters. It's written by Tina O'Hailey who has taught at Disney, Dreamworks and Electronic Arts. Rig It Right! is a wonderful hands-on tutorial book on rigging using the Maya software.
