Maya & Unreal: Advanced Skeleton Rigging
In this foundation course we will be learning the fundamentals of Character Rigging the UE4/UE5 mannequins, Metahumans, and custom meshes utilizing Advanced Skeleton for Autodesk Maya.
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Over 145 lectures and over 10 hours of content.
Course Details
Learn how to create a custom rig for Autodesk Maya for use in game engines such as Unreal and Unity utilizing Advanced Skeleton.
This course will instruct you on the fundamentals of rigging custom characters, Unreal Mannequins, and MetaHumans with Advanced Skeleton for Autodesk Maya.
Over 70 lectures and more than 7 hours of content.
We will cover the following core skill sets:
- How to rig a custom mesh with Advanced Skeleton
- How to get started with rigging characters with Advanced Skeleton and the GUI interface
- How to prepare your character for rigging using symmetrize
- How to clean up the outliner groups and hierarchy
- How to work with proxy meshes
- Understanding fit mode
- How to add additional joints for custom controls
- How to fix and polish character rig axis alignments
- How to work with skin weights, including how to restore skin weights, and working with a skin cage
- How to rig the face
- Advanced Skeleton vs Unreal Engine's Epic Auto Rigging Tools (ART) comparisons
- Installation process
- Unreal Mannequin and MetaHuman import/export process
- How to use the Name Matcher, Mannequin Templates, MetaHuman Templates, Walk Designer, and Mocap Library tools
- Rigging custom Unreal Marketplace character assets and/or custom created characters
- Posing control details
- FK/IK Matching/Baking tools
- Root motion animation workflow
- How to add auto breathing, auto jiggle, and auto eye blinking
- How to rig an umbrella prop
- How to constrain a prop to both character's hands rigged with Advanced Skeleton
- How to create an offset controller to animate a constrained prop
- How to add shape morphing to your character rig
- How to update the outliner for a character rigged with Advanced Skeleton to accept UE4 Mannequin animation to be imported with the custom animation mocap library tool
- Industry Rigging and best practice workflows
- Secret tips and tricks
If you have never created a character rig from scratch, you will be 100% ready to do so by the end of these sessions, regardless of whether you are working on games, film, television, or any other character rigging production needs.
You’ll be armed with the knowledge and powerful tools that are utilized in the industry by some of the top professionals in the world.
This course will be completely FREE with the Class Creatives PRO Subscription.
Learn how to create a custom character rig from scratch for the Unreal Game Engine today!
Course curriculum
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Symmetrize
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Clean Up Group
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Proxy Mesh
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Fitmode
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Creating Additional Joints
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Advance Skeleton Mode
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Deltoid Axis Fix
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Ankle Fix
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Elbow Fix
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Knee Fix
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Skin Weight Restoration | Exporting Skin Weights
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Skin Cage
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Skin Weights Part 1
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Skin Weights Part 2
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Skin Weights Part 3
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Prop Umbrella Rigging
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Additional Rib
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Adding Joints
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Joint Renaming
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Skinweight
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Shrink Amount
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Blend Shape
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Shape Mesh Deform | Modifying Umbrella Mesh Shape
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Creating Suspender
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Creating Rib Joint
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Creating Opener
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Open & Close Expression
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Skin Weighting
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Mesh Intersecting Polish
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Draper Skin Weight
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Draper Shape Change
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Blend Shape Expression
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Two Hand Constraints with Offset Controllers | IK/FK Grab Position Setup
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Set Driven Key
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Hand Constraint Arrow Controller | Hand Switching Control
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Applying Controllers to Prop Asset
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Custom Mocap Library Fix | Delete Root Outliner
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Facial Rigging with Advanced Skeleton
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Eyelid Polish
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Auto Breath Control
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Auto Blinking Control
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Auto Jiggle Deformer | Bust Morphing
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Unreal Mannequin Rigging Overivew
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Unreal Mannequin Export Process
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Maya Import Process & Name Matcher Tool
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Walk Designer, Mocap Library, & Selection GUI
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Maya Animation Export Process
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Unreal Animation Import Process
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Rigging Custom Characters & Paragon Assets from the Epic Marketplace
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IK/FK Switching Setup & Control Details
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Hip Controllers
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IK/FK Matching Tool Settings
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Control Polish & Final Comparisons
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Import Animation Overview
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Unreal Export Process
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Maya Animation Import Process
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Maya Animation Export Process
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Unreal Animation Import
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UE5 Mannequin Unreal/Maya Workflow
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Custom Mesh Unreal/Maya Workflow
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Root Motion Workflow
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14
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MetaHuman | Quixel Bridge Export to Maya
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Rigging MetaHumans
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MetaHuman | Importing Body Animation
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MetaHuman | Importing Face Animation
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MetaHuman | Face & Body Animation Import Process
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MetaHuman | ATOM Body Animation Export/Import Alternative Workflow
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Maya Body & Face Animation Export
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Unreal Body & Face Animation Import
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MetaHuman & Advanced Skeleton Conclusion
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Additional Lectures Coming Soon!
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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
This course features an accredited university animation instructor who has over 20 years of experience animating both keyframe, and motion capture based animation for studios such as Naughty Dog, Insomniac, Sony Computer Ent, Guerilla Games, Sucker Punch, Google, Disney and more.
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