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. The concept of a biped is explored as a human compared to a bird character allowing you to see that a biped is a biped and how to problem solve for the limbs at hand. Rig It Right! will take you to a more advanced level where you will learn how to create stretchy rigs with invisible control systems and use that to create your own types of rigs.
This highly anticipated Third Edition features updated chapters and images, including new chapters on modeling with proper edgeloop (Rule #1!), how to Rig It Right then Rig it Fast with parallel processing, and new helpful scripts for evaluating your rig with the profiler tools.
Key Features
- Hone your skills every step of the way with short tutorials and editable rigs that accompany each chapter (17+ rigs!!)
- Read "Tina’s 10 Rules of Rigging" and build the foundational knowledge needed to successfully rig your characters
- New content: Edgeloops for Good Deformation and Rigging for a Parallel World
- New scripts for evaluating your rigs’ performance
- Access the Support Materials and expand your newfound knowledge with editable rigs, exercises, and videos that elaborate on techniques covered in the book
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
Biography
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.
