Jarred Love covers some fundamental concepts and a tip for working with shape nodes within a rig. When you create an object in Maya, a bunch of nodes comes along with it. One of those
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Perry Leijten shows off a foot roll setup that can always keep contact no matter what. When it comes to character rigs, keeping contact with the floor is essential for animation. We are all used
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David Palley shows two ways to create a rolling or coiling rig in Autodesk Maya. Having an object roll or coil up into itself is something that you will often see for creature tails and
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Mathias Røyrvik covers some concepts for Maya’s original shape node and how you can use it in rigging. Autodesk Maya isn’t known as a procedural application, but it does have some procedural things in it.
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