Maya Tutorials

In this tutorial we will be creating an IK setup, controls, and skinning for the little kitty above. The first step is to make a model. This one is in NURBS, but you can make it in subdivison surfaces instead if you want. MODELING Make some curve circles and move them around til they look...

We have already covered creating controls for the legs of our character. We now want to tackle the spine area of the character. This is a source of many headaches for setup artists. The reasoning is that the spine is not an independent joint chain like the legs are. Instead, the spine reacts to t...

The process of getting real-time characters ready for animation involves a balance between animator, programmer and engine. Most setup artists are confronted with the issue of delivering to the animator the flexibility of movement for a character while placed within the restrictions of a run time...

The following concept overview will be covering Wrap Skinning for the purpose of actual muscle/bone deformation of the skin. The basic concept is: Skeleton Joints driving Bones driving Muscle movement/shape driving Skin deformation. Skeleton Joints>>Geometry Bones>>Geometry Muscl...

This will cover modeling the hand, starting with a polyCylander. Create a 12 sided cylander and rotate 90 dgrees on Z axis. Select three faces and extrude them. Flatten and move them as shown in the .gif below until you have a cool design. Scale the front smaller so that it will look like it fi...