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MAYA full body IK (FBIK)

Now quickly and easily create natural looking poses and animation for your biped and quadruped characters with the new full body IK (FBIK) in Maya. Maya's full body IK is based on the Alias® HumanIK® solver used in Alias® MotionBuilder. It Makes Maya rigging and Posing Characters Faster, easier and more accurate.

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Attaching a Camera to a Motion Path

Learn how to attach a camera to a motion path.

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Animating Facial Expressions using Blend Shape

This tutorial will take you over using blend shape for facial expressions. This is an extremely easy and effective way to enhance you animations.

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Rotating Wheels on a Car

The purpose of this tutorial is to show you how to rotate the wheels on a car so they follow the pace of the car as it move. By doing it this way, you will get a more accurate result without setting numerous keyframes. To do this, we will use the distance tool, set driven key, and infinity cycles in the graph editor.

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Maya Cloth 1

Creating Cloth using maya cloth more: xeav.net

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How to create a simple crowd

This tutorial teaches you how to create and animate simple crowd in Maya software. Requires CrowdMaker 0.5 (or higher) plugin.

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[Video]Maya Rigging Examples and Tutorial

Maya Rigging Examples and Tutorial from Chris Burns in Melbourne Australia.

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Page Turn Animation

This Tutorial would teach you, how to turn a page in Maya, using Maya's skeleton setup.

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Rolling Ellipse Part II - Wacky Vehicle

While you have learned in the rolling ellipse tutorial how to roll an ellipse on the floor, we will now use this expression to build a funny moving vehicle. As I am no artist I won't focus on modelling issues, but on the math to make this little thingy move.

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Creating a Flowing Water Effect in Maya (Using Particles)

This tutorial will teach you how to manipulate the flow of particles from a shower head into a tub as particles collide with the surface of the tub in a water-like motion.

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Character Rigging In Maya - Part 1

Part 1 of a series tutorial introduced maya character rigging.

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Domino Effect

This tutorial will discuss on several issues, how to setup the geometry and how to apply passive to active key switch among dominos.

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Creating Animated Grass

for surfaces with grass that are not planar you need to use an object for the volume select, then make a copy of your surface, collapse it add a high optimize/polygon-reduction to it and use solidify to give it volume, use this new mesh the same way you used the original box gizmo to select the upper vertices.

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Expressing Emotion

This is tutorial for intermediate maya users which will teach you basics of expressing emotion on animated character.

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Building leg skeletons

Learn great technique of building and animating leg skeletons in maya using the detached foot method.

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How to create a moving Tentacle using Procedural animation

It is very basic tutorial which shows you how to create a moving Tentacle using Procedural animation in Maya.

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Character Rigging In Maya

At the end of this great tutorial, you will have a completed rig for a biped character and a better in-depth understanding of the whole process in general?

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Flying butterfly animation - Tutorial for beginners

In this tutorial, we will make a simple butterfly and animate it. Follow the steps as shown below.

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Understanding Squash and Stretch

One of the key principles of animation is the use of Squash and Stretch to show weight and volume. This lesson will walk you through the process of using this technique to breathe life into our simple animation. Working with the timeline Using Autokey Working with squash attributes Using stretch to show movement

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3December Presentation: Full Body IK

In this lesson we will learn how to setup a Full Body IK character inside of Maya. This lesson will guide you through a brief introduction to using FBIK. You will learn how to: Label your joints for characterization Add Full Body IK to the skeleton Pin and unpin controls and lay FBIK keyframes

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