Do you know that Kickstand has made Stretchmesh deformer open source?
It’s a fantastic little tool to enhance your character deformation. Get
it now here 🙂
#rigTip of the day!
Ever got stuck with mirroring the muscle weight with standard #Maya
skin weights mirror tool? Well mirroring weights in Maya is based on
the world space XYZ transformation co-ordinate of joint or influence
object. Maya muscle objects on the other hand is frozen in
transformation, as a result we are unable to mirror weights and usually
stuck with painting the weights on both sides.
Well for some cases this is a nice choice since we have asymmetry in
deformation but for the most the time, this is frustration to repeat the
same thing on the other side and a waste of time. Asymmetry can be
created with simple corrective shapes, no problem!
Well there
is a clever solution to this problem. Why don’t we just go on to attach
the influence objects to create a single mesh. Selecting left and right
influence nurbs object (muscle mesh) and attaching them to create a
single mesh! There you go, that was SIMPLE! All you need to do, is paint
the weight on the left and the mirroring works like a charm! Pheewww…
that saved us some time.
Hope this rigTip comes handy to you:)
If you want to learn more about Musculo-Skeletal deformation, check out these Mini-Workshops at Puppeteer Lounge!
A quick update on the existing demonstration for the Arm Rig (Deformation) featuring the application of skin dynamics from Hyper Real Body Setup “Rigging Workshop“.
Arm deformation test (Fore-arm, Bicep & Tricep) for Puppeteer Lounge‘s Hyper Real Body Setup workshop. Hope you like it!
An updated version for Brave Rabbit’s SHAPES tool is now available. Check it out!
Shoulder rigging techniques using various tools by Andrew Silke. He integrated Maya and Mudbox workflow to create this
beautiful deformation. Check it out!
HRFS ~ Ajar Roars! from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.
Check out this short clip on Hyper Real Facial Setup. This workshop is one of the mini-workshops at Puppeteer Lounge where we build a photo-realistic facial rig for films based on facial sculpts and musculo-skeletal deformation!
For more information on Puppeteer Lounge’s rigging workshops, click here!
You can watch the facial rig demonstration below!
Great work by Ramtin. Check out the breakdown below.
Cartoony facial rig test by Andrew Silke!