ClassCreatives – Maya & Unreal: Advanced Skeleton Rigging

This course will instruct you on the fundamentals of rigging custom characters, Unreal Mannequins, and MetaHumans with Advanced Skeleton for Autodesk Maya.

Over 70 lectures and more than 7 hours of content.

We will cover the following core skill sets:

How to rig a custom mesh with Advanced Skeleton

How to get started with rigging characters with Advanced Skeleton and the GUI interface

How to prepare your character for rigging using symmetrize

How to clean up the outliner groups and hierarchy

How to work with proxy meshes

Understanding fit mode

How to add additional joints for custom controls

How to fix and polish character rig axis alignments

How to work with skin weights, including how to restore skin weights, and working with a skin cage

How to rig the face

Advanced Skeleton vs Unreal Engine’s Epic Auto Rigging Tools (ART) comparisons

Installation process

Unreal Mannequin and MetaHuman import/export process

How to use the Name Matcher, Mannequin Templates, MetaHuman Templates, Walk Designer, and Mocap Library tools

Rigging custom Unreal Marketplace character assets and/or custom created characters

Posing control details

FK/IK Matching/Baking tools

Root motion animation workflow

How to add auto breathing, auto jiggle, and auto eye blinking

How to rig an umbrella prop

How to constrain a prop to both character’s hands rigged with Advanced Skeleton

How to create an offset controller to animate a constrained prop

How to add shape morphing to your character rig

How to update the outliner for a character rigged with Advanced Skeleton to accept UE4 Mannequin animation to be imported with the custom animation mocap library tool

Industry Rigging and best practice workflows

Secret tips and tricks

If you have never created a character rig from scratch, you will be 100% ready to do so by the end of these sessions, regardless of whether you are working on games, film, television, or any other character rigging production needs.

Size:2.02 GB

home page

https://www.classcreatives.com/courses/maya-unreal-advanced-skeleton-rigging-course