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2013
Digital Tutors
Kurt Jones
03:30:00
English

In this tutorial we'll learn how we can take a modeled character and prepare it for animation. We'll begin this process by using MODO's skeleton tool to build a hierarchy of joints throughout the body. As we build our skeleton we'll learn how to fix the orientation and alignment of joints along with some basic knowledge of parenting. Once we've constructed our skeleton we'll learn how to bind it to the mesh and explore some of the weight painting tools that can be used to edit the influence our joints have on the geometry. Following this we'll dive deeper into rigging our character by learning how to apply inverse kinematics, locators, constraints, and control surfaces along with other cool tools and features to provide our character with the functionality it needs for an animator. Finally, we analyze the functionality of our rig and fix any issues that may have occurred. After watching this tutorial you'll be ready to begin rigging your own characters with more confidence while having a lot of fun.

01. Introduction and project overview 01:09
02. Creating joints with the skeleton tool 11:43
03. Mirroring joints 14:27
04. Editing, deleting, inserting, and naming joints 10:14
05. Fixing orientations and alignments 13:23
06. Parenting joints 10:53
07. Binding the skeleton 11:29
08. Painting weights 11:05
09. Applying inverse kinematics to joints 08:13
10. Adding locators for the feet 11:08
11. Parenting locators for the feet 07:32
12. Assigning an up vector locator to the feet 08:15
13. Assigning controls for the knees and the legs 08:46
14. Cleaning up locators and creating control systems 11:10
15. Adding a control surface for the hips 10:25
16. Adding a control surfaces for the spine, chest, and root joints 10:44
17. Rigging the arms 12:01
18. Rigging the hands with user channels 15:02
19. Adding surface controls for the neck and head 08:16
20. Final analysis and making fixes 12:43

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