2012
Digital Tutors
Annick Harmel-Tourneur
1h44m
English
In this Maya tutorial we will be learn techniques, workflows and best practices for use with Maya's HumanIK (HIK) toolset. Throughout these lessons we will be learning some of the MEL commands needed to add HIK to a character rigging pipeline. Along the way we will look at some of the limitations with the HumanIK toolset and how we can work around them. By the end of the this tutorial, you will comfortable with HIK whether you are an animator with no rigging experience or a TD looking to add HIK to your rigging pipeline.
1. Introduction and project overview
2. What is HumanIK?
3. Overview of the Skeleton Generator window
4. Looking at the requirements for using your own skeleton
5. Required nodes for HIK and dealing with extra joints
6. Characterization window with the default skeleton
7. Characterization window with our custom skeleton
8. Creating a control rig and keying groups
9. Pinning, reach and keying groups
10. Looking at the HIK rig options
11. How to create auxiliary effectors
12. How to create pivots effectors
13. Preparing for retargeting
14. Workflow for retargeting
15. Best practices for baking mocap
16. Tweaking mocap data using the HumanIK rig
17. Using retargeted data to pose animation
18. Using MEL with the Skeleton Generator
19. Using MEL with the Characterization Tool
20. Using MEL with the Character Controls window
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