T0350 - Digital Tutors - Rigging Cartoon Vehicles in Maya Cd 1 s.d 4

Digital Tutors - Rigging Cartoon Vehicles in Maya
An advanced guide to creating vehicle rigs with emphasis on toon
Learn a production workflow to creating vehicle rigs with emphasis on cartoon performance, squash and stretch rigging techniques, and the principles of building solution-based rigs for easy animation.

Contains over 8 hours of project-based training for setup artists and animators learning the processes of creating intuitive cartoon rigs with animator-friendly controls. Perfect for experienced artists.

Popular highlights include:

• Creating Customized Tools


• Squash and Stretch Tools


• Custom Tools for Pinning Objects


• Maintaining Volume with Squash & Stretch


• Creating MEL Scripts


• Creating Illusion of Weight on Tires


• Automating Follow-through in Antenna


• Automating Revolving Lights


• Intuitive Control for Steering Wheel


• Rigging with Non-linear Deformers


• Rigging Doors and Windows


• Automating the Car Idle


• Setting up Proxy Meshes


• Adding a Smooth Node Switch


• Creating Control Objects


• Attaching Vehicles to Motion Paths


• Binding to Lattices


• Creating Exhaust Sputter

Lesson Outline:

1.	Introduction and start scene overview	9:28
2.	Creating a MEL script for snapping objects	10:39
3.	Starting the wagon rig	8:04
4.	Creating bones to deform the vehicle	11:17
5.	Designing a MEL window to apply squash and stretch to the rig	9:28
6.	The execution command for the squash and stretch tool	12:12
7.	Finishing the squash and stretch tool	16:17
8.	Adding volume to the squash and stretch of the vehicle	9:42
9.	Finishing the squash and stretch setup of the vehicle	5:38
10.	Creating the initial controls	8:10
11.	Finishing the vehicle body control objects / adding a twist deformation	13:35
12.	Making the proxy cage for the vehicle	8:33
13.	Controlling the spinning of the police light	10:21
14.	Connecting objects to polygon meshes	12:16
15.	Beginning the setup for the antenna	7:02
16.	Connecting the antenna to the mesh	7:03
17.	Finishing the antenna	9:02
18.	The setup process for the doors	11:28
19.	Adding a control object to the front right door	10:49
20.	Finishing the front right door	8:13
21.	Working on the front left door	18:26
22.	Starting setup of the steering wheel	8:49
23.	Wrapping up the steering wheel	3:07
24.	Starting on the back doors	9:45
25.	Final tweaks for the back left door	6:08
26.	Beginning the right back door	4:55
27.	Finishing the right back door / starting on the back lock	11:25
28.	Finishing the back lock	10:01
29.	Beginning the setup of the exhaust	10:19
30.	Finishing the exhaust rig	2:07
31.	Rigging the siren with non-linear deformers	10:08
32.	Tying the non-linear deformers together to create a noisy siren effect	5:37
33.	Final tweaks for the siren rig	11:30
34.	Starting on the tires: creating control objects	7:18
35.	Connecting the tire to the control object and setting up a tire follow switch	11:40
36.	Looking into ways to rig the tires to revolvea	12:19
37.	Creating the illusion of weight on the tire	7:10
38.	Working on the connections between the tire control and squash deformer	6:54
39.	Completing the back right tire	6:32
40.	Moving on to the back left wheel	11:39
41.	Applying the revolve expression to the rear left tire	4:04
42.	Adding the squash deformer to the rear left wheel	7:39
43.	Starting our work on the front left tire	9:22
44.	Wrapping up the general connections of the front left tire	8:55
45.	Setting up the steering control	4:22
46.	Working on the last wheel	6:36
47.	Finishing the rig for the last tire	6:57
48.	Creating the wagon idle expression	8:47
49.	Adding the idle shake to the hood	9:30
50.	Making character sets for the vehicle	8:49
51.	Determining a good rotation order and writing a MEL script to quickly apply it	4:36
52.	Smoothing the wagon model and setting up a control to switch between smooth levels	10:34
53.	Concepts for adding a vehicle to a motion path	13:01
54.	Bonus: explanation of the Connect to Mesh (CTM) tool	7:55
	Total Run Time:	8:06:13