Andrew Christophersen shows how you can use instanced shapes for rig controls. When you are building rigs in Autodesk Maya and you want an IK/FK switch to control attributes on multiple controls, you’ll find that
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Harry Houghton shows how to skin a spring in Maya so that it still looks like it is a rigid element. Springs are tricky to rig. You need to set up compression and stretching so
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Michael Howard adds secondary motion to a character rig by using MASH in Maya. Plenty of rigging artist and technical directors have put effort into creating and automating secondary motion in character rigs. We’ve seen
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Bhaumik Patel shows how you can set up any rig in Maya to work with motion capture data, using HumanIK. There are tons of amazing and free rigs out there for Autodesk Maya. Even though
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