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Rig a Fish in Maya

by Shaun Keenan28 Apr 2014

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Rigging 3D Maya

Final product image — What You'll Be Creating

In this tutorial you'll learn how to create a complex rig for a fish in Maya. Shaun Keenan covers creating and parenting joints, adding controllers and constraints, adjusting skinning and influences through weight painting, setting up an auto swim feature and building a graphical user interface for easy animation.

1. Introduction and Placing Joints

2. Painting Weights

3. Painting Weights 2

4. Final Weight Painting

5. Creating Rig Controls

6. Making Connections

7. Setting up Auto Swim Features

8. Creating the Character GUI

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Shaun Keenan (Fusedgore) is a self taught CG artist. His specialty is Modeling, Rigging, Sculpting, Texturing and Rendering. Shaun has over 7 years of experience in Character Modeling, Character Rigging, Sculpting and Texturing. Primarily a character Modeler, Shaun strives to help as he can with any project people are trying to finish. Many of Shaun's work can be seen at the following links. If you have any questions, Shaun is willing to try and answer those questions by email. Email | Portfolio | Facebook | Deviantart Page.

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