Character TD/Animator Jason Baskin shares his new free character rig for Autodesk Maya, Mike and Tina (free for non commercial use). The Mike and Tina rig is an intuitive and versatile rig that offers a high level of consummation in Maya.
Mike and Tina Rig
The Mike and Tina Rig features include customizable clothing and skin, eye, hair style and color system. Motion-wise, the Mike and Tina rig offers an FK/IK system for the character’s back and arms with FK/IK Matching, space switching options and stretchy limbs including the back.
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Rig features include:
- FK/IK matching
- FK/IK back, arms, and legs
- IK space switching options
- Stretchy back, arms, and legs
- Knee and elbow locking
- Multiple foot pivots with display options
- FK and attribute driven finger controls with display options
- Head squash/stretch
- Torso deform and breath control
- Secondary arm/leg shaper controls
- Full Osipa style face rig with on-face option
- Teeth and tongue controls
- Sticky lip and lip seal options
- UI and direct eye aim option
- Auto lid option
- Secondary on-face controls
- Eye shaper controls
- Iris/Pupil controls
- Scalable rig
- Customizable clothing and skin/eye/hair style and color
- Male/female option
- Fully customizable morph target option
Availability
You can download the free Mike and Tina character rig for Maya at creative crash here: Mike and Tina Character Rig
