Blog Archives

Pick-walking Through Control Rig

28/5/2019

Small detail but I finally googled how to pick-walk through controls when you have offset and skd groups in the way ha. https://www.creativebloq.com/how-to/create-custom-rig-controls-in-maya

Select the controls you want to pick-walk through and hit 'Tag As Controller'. Then select the child control, then the parent control and hit 'Parent Controller'.

Animation Control Thickness

23/5/2019

I never knew but turns out you can change the thickness of NURBS curves. Create a NURBS circle or something for your control, and at the bottom of the shape node adjust the Line Width attribute. Job done. Amazing haha.

MoCap Prep

16/5/2019

The skeleton needs to be as straight as possible in a T pose.

IK Handles won't undo when Parent Constrained

14/5/2019

Just learned something new! When you parent constrain an IK handle to a control, you can't always undo when you move the control. Or when you zero it out. But if you parent the IK handle under an empty group and then constrain the group instead, you can undo IK movement ^^

Found this out after a quick Google from here.

What Is This?

So this is a collection of things I've learned as I progress in rigging and animation. I just like to keep a note of things here so I can find things easily later.

Does this all belong to you?

Some things are things that I've figured out, but there's a great deal of tutorials and knowledge that I've found from perusing the internet. I've tried to give credit where it's due.