T0390 - Digital Tutors - Introduction to Maya Muscle

Create realistic muscle and skin motion and become productive with the flexible Maya Muscle tools and workflow, while learning creative techniques for enhancing character performances. Contains over 3 hours of project-based training. Perfect for artists learning Maya Muscle.Popular highlights include:

• Maya Muscle Overview


• Capsules, Bones and Muscles


• Muscle Builder User Interface


• Modeling Muscle Definition


• Custom Muscle Shapes


• Muscle Spline Deformer


• Muscle Stretch Deformer


• Muscle Skin Deformers


• Sliding and Shrinkwrap


• Painting Muscle Weights


• Jiggle, Cycle and Rest Attributes


• Relax and Smooth Attributes


• Muscle Caching


• Surface Attach


• Muscle Setup for Symmetrical Characters

Lesson Outline:

1.	Starting up Maya Muscle	2:02
2.	Components of Maya Muscle	4:53
3.	Adding capsules	5:33
4.	Building capsule chains	6:31
5.	Creating spline-based muscles	5:50
6.	Creating stretch-based muscles	5:52
7.	Capsule and muscle setup (and pitfalls)	8:09
8.	Connecting muscle objects and muscle skins	7:25
9.	Assigning weights to muscle skins	7:21
10.	Using the Muscle Builder - muscle placement	6:42
11.	Using the Muscle Builder - muscle definition	6:47
12.	Understanding maximum bind distance	5:39
13.	Changing muscle parameters	9:04
14.	Fixing twisting and distortions	6:23
15.	Custom muscle shapes	8:50
16.	Using muscles with Maya skin clusters	7:07
17.	Activating sliding effects	6:19
18.	Sliding with shrinkwrap enabled	5:06
19.	Jiggle, cycle and rest weights	6:34
20.	Wrinkles and folds with relax weights	6:51
21.	Smoothing deformations	4:14
22.	Indirect smoothing	5:51
23.	Mirroring muscles for symmetric characters	6:19
24.	Adding more symmetric muscles	7:36
25.	Mirroring weights on symmetric muscles	7:38
26.	Controlling muscles with a Master Control	4:30
27.	Using the transfer weights tool	6:37
28.	Node/External caching of skin deformation	5:58
29.	Muscle spline rigging tool	3:52
30.	Application of Surface Attach	6:49
31.	Understanding muscle direction	6:08
	Total Run Time:	3:14:30