Pushing Your Character Rigs Beyond the Basics in 3ds Max

Contents :

• 01.Introduction and project overvie 01:01
• 02.Building our own muscle 07:48
• 03.Creating the muscle’s global control 04:32
• 04.Adding the muscle’s spline and secondary controls 04:54
• 05.Constraining our helpers to follow the muscle’s spline 02:59
• 06.Controlling the orientation of the helpers connected to our spline 05:04
• 07Finishing the process of constraining our helpers 03:17
• 08.Implementing the muscle’s advanced twist control 03:49
• 09.Wrapping up the muscle’s advanced twist control 03:51
• 10.Controlling the squash and stretch factor of our muscle 03:00
• 11.Maintaining volume in the muscle 07:47
• 12.Finishing the muscle’s squash and stretch system 07:46
• 13.Cleaning up the muscle 02:41
• 14.Exporting our muscle 01:22
• 15.Cleaning up our model and using our muscle to set up the spine 07:48
• 16.Setting up a global control 06:03
• 17.Customizing 3ds Max to improve our productivity 04:21
• 18.Creating the leg bones 08:20
• 19.Finishing our leg chains 03:39
• 20.Rigging the neck and head 06:21
• 21.Finishing our work on the neck’s rig 01:59
• 22.Adding bones for the clavicles and arms 05:44
• 23.Creating hand bones 08:23
• 24.Creating the thumb’s chain and mirroring the arm 07:27
• 25.Maintaining volume in the knees and elbows 05:40
• 26.Attaching muscle systems to the shins 05:30
• 27.Setting up muscle systems for the thighs 04:51
• 28.Setting up the twist systems for the thighs 05:22
• 29.Setting up the right thigh’s counter-twist system 01:47
• 30.Completing the twist systems for the shins 03:30
• 31.Wrapping up our twist systems for the ankles 05:07
• 32.Scaling the muscle systems connected to the legs 02:39
• 33.Adding muscle rigs to the forearms 04:25
• 34.Connecting our muscle rigs to the shoulders 03:49
• 35.Setting up the shoulder’s counter-twist system 06:22
• 36.Completing the twist rig for the shoulders 03:59
• 37.Setting up an auto-clavicle rig 08:11
• 38.Finishing the twist rig for the forearms 04:06
• 39.Connecting our twist systems to the wrists 02:40
• 40.Attaching the neck to the upper torso 03:03
• 41.Preserving volume in the buttocks 04:59
• 42.Enveloping the head 06:29
• 43.Weight-painting techniques 09:03
• 44.Skinning the shoes 08:14
• 45.Transferring weights on separate pieces of geometry 03:25
• 46.Skinning to a proxy cage 05:13
• 47.Connecting the shirt to the proxy 06:59
• 48.Checking our progress and adding inverse 09:21
• 49.Creating control objects for the legs 05:52
• 50.Adding custom parameters for our secondary foot controls 04:31
• 51.Setting up foot roll systems 07:21
• 52.Finalizing our foot controls 03:05
• 53.Controlling the knees 05:32
• 54.Finishing the knee controls 04:06
• 55.Controlling the spine 07:20
• 56.Wrapping up our spinal controls 04:50
• 57.Controlling the head 03:51
• 58.Adding a control for the collar 05:17
• 59.Controlling the clavicles 06:38
• 60.Creating arm controls 06:22
• 61.Controlling the elbows 04:10
• 62.Creating finger controls 08:15
• 63.Finishing the finger controls 06:05
• 64.Cleaning up the rig and working with Selection Sets 05:45
• 65.Finalizing our rig 06:13