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Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2

This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with complex objects.

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2 different joint types in an IK skeleton setup?

can somebody please explain the use/meaning of the 2 different joint types in an IK skeleton setup? In an IK joint chain, there are 2 ‘joints’:...

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by lori_hunter

08-03-2005|06:15 AM

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Mel Expression for Walk Cycle Tutorail?

Kurt: Hi. I was wondering if you could share how you set up the expressions for the pelvis and legs of the boy character in the three part video...

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by lhqhappy

04-03-2005|10:36 AM

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accurate hip movement in walk

I've got joints at the hips, knees, ankles, balls of feet, toe areas. I've got an IK handle at the ankle connecting it to the hip. So it looks nice...

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by mayaMan1982

25-02-2005|09:37 PM

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Wrap deformers + deformable object

Hi I did some wrap skinning to control the deformations of my character's face. It's all good except for the mouth area, where some vertices of...

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by Gun-Kata

07-02-2005|06:43 PM

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Skin weights problem

I recently started back working with maya after a long job. I installed maya 6 onto my new computer and imported some models to do some animation. I...

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by iron_tick

05-02-2005|04:33 PM

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wings

Does anyone know how to model and rig a bat type of wing? or does anyone know of any links?

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by uberstonks

02-02-2005|06:09 AM

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Moving a rigged character

I have a rigged character. I want to translate the character in an animation. When I just select the character and move it, the skeleton stays...

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by kbrown

01-02-2005|05:46 PM

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Copying models with skeletons

for my Battle Chess project I need to copy the pawns (and later also the other pieces) with the skeletons already set up. I can easily duplicate the...

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by MixX

01-02-2005|11:33 AM

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Character rigging

I am after some rigging video training that I can download similar to the ones available for other topics. Can you let me know if there are any...

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by starman5

01-02-2005|07:10 AM

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newbie needs help, problems with boning a character

sorry i didnt know weather to put this in newbie or here, if its in the wrong place i apologise. ive been trying to bone a character in maya, all has...

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by uberstonks

22-01-2005|05:50 PM

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mouth spread

I have a simply poly model, called raptor, wich is a robot. This model have a mouth formed by several pieces of geometry. I've set a driven key...

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by powernemo

18-01-2005|04:10 PM

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copying blendshapes

Hi, I have created a character, and I want to re-texture him better, but I have started animation and have even used Blendshapes for facial...

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by Velusion

13-01-2005|08:53 PM

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Rotating IK Handle Manipulators

I need to animate a badly rigged character, as soon as I rotate the direction he moves, the IK's stay in the original direction, is there a way to...

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by vladimirjp

03-01-2005|03:22 PM

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Question on Mocap software and MAYA

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this but anyway, my company is looking into MoCap, and I wanted to ask around and find some things...

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by Calvin

26-11-2004|03:07 AM

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download

Why i can´t download anything

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by Trigo

20-11-2004|10:27 PM

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painting weight frustration

I have finaly completed the rigging of my model and need to paint the weight. Everything is simple except that when I try to paint and area, for...

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by vladimirjp

20-11-2004|07:43 PM

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by geany

16-11-2004|08:07 AM

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Tucking pants into boots...?

using cloth, how wud i go about making it so that the bottoms on a character are tucked into the boots. i've tried making the cloth object and then...

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by Kerosene

12-11-2004|11:14 AM

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Animation of a horse

Hi everyone! I'd be very grateful, if somebody help me with the motions of a running horse. I need any reference information. Thanks a lot.

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by geany

11-11-2004|02:29 PM

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Rigid Binding with IK Handles

Hello everybody. I encountered this problem when building a skeleton with controllers for a character I made. The problem is that after Rigid...

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by said

11-11-2004|03:06 AM

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Spline IK and clusters

OK, I'm really having a problem with Spline IK on my character for the spine. I just don't know how to fix the problem and I'm going nuts not...

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by Nimmel

09-11-2004|06:56 PM

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Quick question about workflow

I'm quite new to maya and i was just wondering what the workflow for face shapes is on a character so i don't lose them all when i skin it. Is there...

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by midimoose

06-11-2004|12:58 AM

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Duplicate clips in Trax messed up

Hi, I've just started trying to use the Trax editor to loop a run cycle using clips. (I haven't done this before and am pretty new to Maya in...

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by pigcity

05-11-2004|06:35 PM