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Source Creature Rigging

Source Creature Rigging

Working in Softimage, you’ll start with the basics of bones, joints, and hierarchies as you set up an animation rig for a biped skeleton character. Then learn how to create a shadow rig and envelope the character model to it. Next, you’ll see the character guides and rigs that are already included in Softimage and learn how to modify them to fit your own needs. Finally, you’ll go through the entire process of creating a skeletal rig for a quadruped dragon character, ready to export to the Source engine.

In this first section we'll discuss the topics that will be learned in the following tutorial.

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To understand rigging you must first learn how skeletons work. In this chapter you'll create a bone chain and learn how to move and manipulate it.

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  • Runtime 07 min 06 sec
  • Software Softimage

Constraining is one way to increase the speed and efficiency of your animation. It’s a way of controlling the animation of one object via the animation of a different object.

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  • Runtime 21 min 12 sec
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Using constraints you'll create a bi-pedal rig for a skeleton model.

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  • Runtime 23 min 29 sec
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Using a bone chain you'll learn to deform your mesh according to your bone's movement.

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  • Runtime 04 min 15 sec
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A shadow rig is a simpler rig that is constrained to the main rig and is used for animating your character.

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  • Runtime 16 min 35 sec
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In this chapter you'll learn how to envelope and weight paint your skeleton model in order to ensure smooth deformations.

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  • Runtime 11 min 02 sec
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Familiarize yourself with the pre-assembled rigs and guides in Softimage.

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  • Runtime 08 min 18 sec
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Taking what you've learned about rigging in the previous sections, you'll create your own custom creature rig from scratch.

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  • Runtime 15 min 24 sec
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Add the finishing touches to your creature rig in Softimage.

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  • Runtime 14 min 13 sec
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