[ Main · New messages  · Forum rules · Search · RSS ] Page 1 of 1 1 Forum moderator: frouzy   Forum » Art Discussion » Video & Animation & Cinema » rigging a neck quickly and cleanly rigging a neck quickly and cleanly Thunder Date: Wednesday, 04.02.2009, 20:09 | Message # 1 Independent Artist Posts: 3 Reputation:  0 Status: Offline I need to rig the neck of my character, but i'm at a loss as to how to do it and do it quickly. I'm using maya. My two ideas so far are a controller object with set driven keys that rotate the neck joints... But that's very confusing, complicated, and takes forever. The other idea is to directly control the joints in an FK manner, with control curves for each moving joint. This is viable, but the tangle of controllers isn't ideal. Any suggestions would be appreciated.   Maximus Date: Wednesday, 04.02.2009, 20:14 | Message # 2 Independent Artist Posts: 1 Reputation:  0 Status: Offline if you're familiar with a ribbon spine setup, those are pretty good for necks as well, especially if you need a very flexible stretchy neck aaron holly's dvd has a great demonstration of the ribbon setup, and i'm sure there's a bazillion threads here on how to put together a similar setup   TETRAGRAMMATON Date: Wednesday, 04.02.2009, 20:20 | Message # 3 Independent Artist Posts: 2 Reputation:  0 Status: Offline Hey there, let me start off by saying I would try to avoid using Set driven keys as they be broken if an animator choses to "Delete Channels" Anyways, the way I always do knecks that will also allow for stretch, squash setup is to place a locator at the kneck joint, bind the control curve to the locator, bind the locator to the joint, and bind and oirent constrain the joint to the curve, then if u want squash/stretch add second locator and use distance between node. Use an offset group for the controller so that it has zero values and is oriented properly, as well as having keyable attributes.   Forum » Art Discussion » Video & Animation & Cinema » rigging a neck quickly and cleanly Page 1 of 1 1 Forum main pageArt Discussion     General Discussion     3D Digital Art     2D Digital Art     Photography     Video & Animation & Cinema     Traditional Art     Experimental Art     Design     Handmade Folk Art     Sculpture     Scale modeling     Game development     Web-designMusic Forum     Composing     Recording     OtherLiterature Forum     Literature & Poems     ArticlesFree Talk     Advertisement     Free talkSite Support     Bug Repport Search: