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Topic: Rigging Question
Posted By: maxaris
Subject: Rigging Question
Date Posted: 18/May/2006 at 5:00am
anyone do rigging?  I am having problems getting the elbow to be shaped correctly, its rounded right now

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Posted By: solitary00
Date Posted: 18/May/2006 at 8:39am
Rigging for what?  Sailing?  Skydiving?  Theater?


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-bullet buffer-


Posted By: maxaris
Date Posted: 18/May/2006 at 12:18pm
maya

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Posted By: Fayaz
Date Posted: 19/May/2006 at 1:18pm

Rigging for character animation? It's pretty complex in an actual production suite. It involves setting up all the joints and their hierarchies (ie shoulder > elbow > wrist > knuckles). For each joint, you need to punch in the degrees of freedom (whether you want a ball & socket / gimbal / slide joint), their tolerances, thresholds, etc. When you are simulating muscles, you have to include tensile/torsional/compressive tolerances as well.

My 3D graphics class wasn't a workshop/studio type class, we didn't use Maya or other apps, we learned the algorithms/theory and had to code our own basic skeletal engines and such. It was just a huge list of forward & reverse kinematic tree elements and their respective values. We animated them with a basic keyframe & interpolation system.

In any case, I did a quick google and there seems to be a few good online tutorials out there. But if you're old school like me, a good Maya character animation textbook will do even better.



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Posted By: Fidelio
Date Posted: 19/May/2006 at 2:51pm
do humans have a slide joint? for that matter, what does have a slide joint?


Posted By: Preach
Date Posted: 19/May/2006 at 5:58pm
Better question... What DOESN'T Fayaz know how to do?!

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Posted By: Tybox
Date Posted: 19/May/2006 at 6:49pm

Originally posted by Preach

Better question... What DOESN'T Fayaz know how to do?!

 

Build a nuke?



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Posted By: NaeBlis
Date Posted: 19/May/2006 at 7:27pm

...I'm sure he could do it if he had the materials.

 

 



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Teh Nibblies


Posted By: Verdant Force
Date Posted: 19/May/2006 at 8:51pm
Reach things from the top shelf.


Posted By: Fidelio
Date Posted: 19/May/2006 at 9:39pm
Recite Latin prayers from memory?

o domini patri et cetera, et cetera, et cetera


Posted By: SNIKT
Date Posted: 19/May/2006 at 9:48pm
lick his elbow

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Posted By: Fidelio
Date Posted: 19/May/2006 at 9:55pm
Vote for president!



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