Learning Character Rigging?

[dmcgrath]

Inspired Character Animation (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931841489/qid=1035157516/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/104-9694546-8222330)

This is a pretty nice book and I plan to buy it when I can afford it. As far as setups are concerned, I have never seen a GREAT book on it. Many touch the subject but no one really gives you the best way to do it in Maya. Some day I want to make a tutorial of a really good character setup, but It will take a month or so out of my life. Then I'm not sure if people will really understand it, Im not a teacher.

You can do some searches on character rigging here and at Highend3D.com. There should be enough to get you started.
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If it is a course. Where?

I learned Character Rigging @ AAC In San Francisco.

But 1500 dollars a class is going to make me nothing but poor for the rest of my life. Even if I do get a good job.

[johnnyMac]

Whaddup? I recently ordered the "Learning Maya - Character Rigging and Animation" book / cdrom from Alias/Wavefront and was very very impressed. Not only did it lead you through step-by-step on rigging a character, it also addressed the best way to go about it depending on your model and the cdrom has a video for each and every chapter in the book.

The guy on the cdrom sounds like a character that belongs on a saturday morning cartoon but it's still pretty good. I think the cdrom / book was only $79. I needed it to work on a project that I had a month to complete and had never rigged a character before. It went smooth as buttttaaah.

http://store.aliaswavefront.com/dr/v2/ec_MAIN.Entry10?V1=385088&PN=1&SP=10023&xid=41107&DSP=&CUR=840&PGRP=0&CACHE_ID=0

have at it.

[SheepFactory]

i would also recommend the character rigging book from alias wavefront.

after you finish it make sure to cheeck out Jason Schleiffer's awesome character rigging DVD also on sale at alias wavefront.

[Ejecta]

Thanks guys!!!

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