Rig it Right!

ISBN-13: 9781032555249 / Twarda / 2024 / 312 str.

Tina O'Hailey

Opis

Rig it Right! breaks down rigging so that you can achieve a fundamental understanding of the concept. The author will get you up and rigging with step-by-step tutorials covering multiple animation control types, connection methods, interactive skinning, BlendShapes, edgeloops, and joint placement, to name a few.

Spis treści

Introduction      

 

Part I     Basic Concepts

 

Chapter 01          Props, pivot points, hierarchies   

Chapter 02          Deformers 

Chapter 03          User controllers   

Chapter 04          Utility nodes and custom attributes   

Chapter 05          Joints   

Chapter 06          Blendshapes and set driven key   

 

Part II    The biped   

 

Chapter 07          The biped   

Chapter 08          Skinning

Chapter 09          Upper body, lower body, root: Always have a cha-cha   

Chapter 10          Feet and knees: Simple, group-based, and joint-based feet   

Chapter 11          Spines: FK, Spline, SDK (set driven key)   

Chapter 12          Arms, elbows, and clavicles: Single-chain, triple-chain with wrist twist (SDK or cluster)   

Chapter 13          Hands: SDK, SDK and Keyable CNTRLS   

Chapter 14          Eyes, blinks, and smiles   

Chapter 15          Master CNTRL and scale-able rigs 

 

Part III   Advanced Topics

 

Chapter 16          OMGimbal lock   

Chapter 17          Advanced controls   

Chapter 18          Stretchy

Chapter 19          Broken rigs and dangly bits   

Chapter 20          Rigging for a Parallel World

Chapter 21          Happily ever after

O autorze

Tina O'Hailey is an animation professor and author of animation textbooks and sci-fi/fantasy novels. She spent the first part of her career working as an artist development trainer for Walt Disney Feature Animation, Dreamworks Animation and Electronic Arts.