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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.
List of contents
Acknowledgments. Introduction. PART I BASIC CONCEPTS. Chapter 1 Props, Pivot Points, and Hierarchies. Chapter 2 Deformers. Chapter 3 User Controllers. Chapter 4 Utility Nodes and Custom Attributes. Chapter 5 Joints. Chapter 6 Blendshapes and Set Driven Key. PART II THE BIPED. Chapter 7 The Biped. Chapter 8 Skinning. Chapter 9 Upper Body, Lower Body, and Root: Always Have a Cha-Cha. Chapter 10 Feet and Knees: Simple, Group-Based, and Joint-Based Feet. Chapter 11 Spines: FK, Spline and 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 Scalable Rigs. PART III ADVANCED TOPICS. Chapter 16 OMG-Gimbal Lock. Chapter 17 Advanced Controls. Chapter 18 Stretchy. Chapter 19 Broken Rigs and Dangly Bits. Chapter 20 Rigging for a Parallel World. Epilogue. Index.
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
