Stephen Mann shows how you can rig a guitar string in Maya.

Maya offers all the rigging tools that you would ever need to rig any possible thing. Lots of tools can work in unison to create something more significant than the sum of its parts. As an example, if you are building a rig for a guitar string. Check out this new tutorial from Stephen Mann that walks us through how to rig a guitar string in Maya.

Mann shows his thought process behind the rig and offers some great tips along the way. Mann uses joints, deformers, and more to create an apparatus that is both flexible and easy to use. Rigs for strings and ropes are always challenging, so there is no wonder why there are readymade tools for them around.