I'm speechless. I worked with lightwave for character rigging and animating and it took me hours and days to have a rigged character with kind of proper controllers and IK handles. And then I do this tutorial in Maya and it takes me freaking 15 minutes and everything is perfectly done?! Thanks for that tutorial, you just made my life easier
@DavidKeymer5 жыл бұрын
Good audio + Perfect length + Useful Information = GREAT TUTORIAL!
@hellodolly79898 жыл бұрын
This was so professional. Great mic quality, love the BG music. Liked and Subscribed, I hope more people realize how great your channel is in the future.
@Filmstorm8 жыл бұрын
+HelloDolly thanks glad you enjoyed it!
@prashanthbhogaraju29446 жыл бұрын
This is so awesomeeeee... Finally rigging seems easy now. Hey @filmstorm could you please also make a video of rigging a bit in detail. I mean like adding controls, adding foot roll, heel roll. It would be great to have that as a continuation to these rigging videos. Thanks and keep up the amazing work.
@adriantheman1678 жыл бұрын
You explained rigging in a way that is honestly more understandable than anything I've seen previously. Keep up the awesome work, and I'll be watching all of your tutorials this week.
@recklesflam1ngo9686 жыл бұрын
Thank you dude! Ive been having trouble with my low poly character I've made for a digital media certificate im doing and this helped me tremendously!
@Filmstorm6 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Glad to hear it 👍🏼👍🏼
@oasane8 жыл бұрын
From 0 knowledge to pro rigger! Thanks a lot dude. I didn't even know the Maya's UI until this video, I feel somehow proficient at rigging thanks to you.
@Filmstorm8 жыл бұрын
+Ozan Ayten thanks Ozan!
@tomforwood6 жыл бұрын
Fantastic tutorial, clear and concise. Makes rigging so much easier!
@dj514013 жыл бұрын
wow the bind skin options helped a bunch. I didnt even have to edit the weights it generated. Thanks!
@jaeshonjones7 жыл бұрын
YES!!! The missing piece to my puzzle. Subscribed!
@Filmstorm7 жыл бұрын
+Jae Shon woo! Glad to hear it!
@izzitme27078 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video! Just what I needed. Thank you!
@Filmstorm8 жыл бұрын
+izzitme 2 Thank you for watching!
@kayesahmedT7 жыл бұрын
Very nice Tutorial...Subscribed keep the good work man.
@Filmstorm7 жыл бұрын
Thanks buddy!
@silvaright6 жыл бұрын
This is so helpful, subscribed, keep up the good tutos mate.
@aquaflare18 жыл бұрын
Kudos to having the only useful tutorial ive been able to find. Thanks a lot! :D
@OneGhastlyGhoul4 жыл бұрын
Pls don't forget to talk about Joint Axis Orientation. If people place their joints like you did without the right settings (e.g. for automatic orientation), they'll mess it up.
@Lucas1a7 жыл бұрын
Really good tutorial! Thanks!
@juancarlosbonilla41387 жыл бұрын
Thanks, just what i was looking for. Greeting from Honduras
@frylander6 жыл бұрын
Love you for this tutorial! Im learning unity and maya, and even zbrush, so having this really helps me since rigging is the part that im not really learning much about. No homo though, have a nice day!
@JHowOfficial7 жыл бұрын
Thank you soooo much! And it just so happens that you were using the same model as me, so it made following along a helluva lot easier! You earned a sub!
@SiamHasan6 жыл бұрын
Best Tutorial ever
@incj127 жыл бұрын
omg this is gold , you have a new subscriber!
@Filmstorm7 жыл бұрын
+Bertupac Glad to have helped!
@mustafamahmoudabbasobeid92616 жыл бұрын
very useful , thanks
@Filmstorm6 жыл бұрын
You’re very welcome 👍🏼
@pandarzzz6 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for sharing this video! It is very informative and easy-to-follow! :)
@Filmstorm6 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Thanks for watching! 👍🏼
@gameswithfrank8 жыл бұрын
Priceless this one ! Awesome tut :D
@Filmstorm8 жыл бұрын
Thanks Kross Fire!
@gameswithfrank8 жыл бұрын
+Filmstorm Studios :) You're welcome. I wanted to ask about a simple gun sway system for the FPS tutorials and also how the bullet holes get spawned with their relative rotation concerning the surfaces the player hits.. Thanks in advance !
@lexithecalm95197 жыл бұрын
great tutorial, keep up the good work.
@Filmstorm7 жыл бұрын
+Lexi The Calm Thanks!
@renaudreguieg75157 жыл бұрын
Great work, just wanted to let you know :) And thank you by the way!
@Filmstorm7 жыл бұрын
+Renaud Reguieg Thanks Renaud!
@ATROCITYLEGIONS7 жыл бұрын
Amazing Tutorial. A question, what is the best workflow for connecting some facial rigs to this? i mean eyes rotation for example. Just parenting to the superior joint of the head?
@vasquezoliveira8 жыл бұрын
Great tutorial! easy to understand and follow! :D
@Mr.Mortal0078 жыл бұрын
Very good and simple. Great work thumbs up... Any video on Animation?
@nickolay_startcev8 жыл бұрын
IT IS SO COOL !!! IT IS SO F*CKIN COOL !!! IT IS EASY TO UNDERSTAND !!! THANKS FOR YOUR JOB !!!
@Filmstorm8 жыл бұрын
+Николай Старцев You're welcome
@hani_issa8 жыл бұрын
earned my subscribe from the first 15 seconds :D Useful information, good sound quality (would like to know what it is) thanks
@Filmstorm8 жыл бұрын
Thanks Haha Wanek. Recorded using a Yeti Mic.
@hani_issa8 жыл бұрын
***** the snowball version or blue yeti ? thanks
@Switchpoppy7 жыл бұрын
There should be a link to this tutorial in the Unity Documentation. Frickin awesome.
@Filmstorm7 жыл бұрын
Thanks Edward!
@sanicartoons53954 жыл бұрын
Nice and informative
@lilitbeglarian79425 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this!
@planebreach4 жыл бұрын
I've seen plenty of tutorials on the same topic but so far i haven't seen any on using the same method and adding different joints like jaw, eyes and stuff like bags and so on to it ... can you make something about it.
@AdamSweeney858 жыл бұрын
This was amazing I have been trying to find a easier way to rig and weight for years now! Thank you. Do you think you could show how to add jaw bone to the rig using this same method?
@Filmstorm8 жыл бұрын
+bathorysthroat Yes I sure can!
@AdamSweeney858 жыл бұрын
Wow thanks!
@AdamSweeney855 жыл бұрын
@@Filmstorm Hi, did you ever end up making a video on this?
@Myselfsama8 жыл бұрын
Great content man :)
@Filmstorm8 жыл бұрын
Thanks Myselfsama!
@narumaster0078 жыл бұрын
Man this is awesome :D now why is it that other people put out 8 part tutorials on this when you accomplished this in one?
@jasonwhyttes16798 жыл бұрын
without using Maya's human IK system you would have a pretty hard time creating a character rig with the level of information provided in this video, perhaps that's why.
@oSHUTUPMEGo7 жыл бұрын
narumaster007 it's because this is a very basic rig, rigging is quite a complex task if done from scratch (best way to do it coz have more control on how rig works) if all you need is a very basic rig then this method is great if any added functionality then you must do from scratch with the knowledge of how rigging work that's why people have 8+ part tutorials
@danny763638 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@Sentimentsel Жыл бұрын
My rigged character model does not appear in Unity, can you help me what is the reason?
@Bobeer3 жыл бұрын
Thanks man
@Haruyuki_Art2 жыл бұрын
awesome thank you
@JesahsuKuristoh6 жыл бұрын
What about the joint orients?
@francoisdlcrx7 жыл бұрын
You are awesome!
@avischiffmann62207 жыл бұрын
my guys head got cruhed in the process lol!
@Filmstorm7 жыл бұрын
+The Crime Lime Before you bind your model to the skeleton. Click on your mesh and go to edit -> delete all history. Now go to edit -> freeze transformations and now try rigging it. It won't deform then :)
@avischiffmann62207 жыл бұрын
where is the freeze transformations in the settings?
@CamoflaugeDinosaue7 жыл бұрын
In Maya its Modify->Freeze Transformations. Also you can right click the attributes in the channel box and click freeze, and choose whether to freeze Translate, Rotate, Scale, or all.
@ChuckPalomo2 жыл бұрын
I'm confused, I though humanik only worked with t-poses. For me it throws up an error whenever the arms are not aligned with the x axis, as it happens when trying to work with an a-pose.
@dissonantprotean54956 жыл бұрын
you sound as relaxed as bob ross
@siddharthpaul65394 жыл бұрын
when am clicking on create skeleton ,outliner is showing rig but ther is nothing on the viewport just a null named (QuickRigCharacter_Guides) is there ...help plz
@TocoDeply7 жыл бұрын
The perfect number for max influences are 4, especially for Unity, which doesn´t allow you more than it. For Unreal you can use until 8 but for the best performance I recommend you 4 too.
7 жыл бұрын
You're awesome
@Filmstorm7 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@vasili12078 жыл бұрын
I have been subscribed for a while.I like your tutorial's the way you explain thing's looking forward to more unity stuff. I Bought Playmaker to follow your tut's. This Rigging tut has come at the right time i have so many Zbrush sculpt's to rig it's stupid, I tried blender but i cannot gel with it. I may try maya thank you. P.s What happend to your store?
@Filmstorm8 жыл бұрын
+Time Waster Digital It is getting a redesign, make it a bit better to use, It will be back online soon!
@drews57447 жыл бұрын
Was the 3d model you used for this a singular 3d object ( like 2 cubes fused together as one object) or a collection of 3d objects (like 2 cubes designated to the same group?) thanks
@Aishiki10296 жыл бұрын
I have a boneset from a unity model and I want to use said boneset to rig a model for unity, but I can't figure out how to get the boneset into Maya so that it can be rigged to the Character model, btw the boneset was given to me as a fbx file
@pianist1503 жыл бұрын
What if you have an irregular character? I have a question mark so he'd only have 1 "leg". When I try to give him a join chain and then hit "Control Rig" it tells me I don't have all the required bones to do this. Is there a workaround? Thank you
@gitwilma42866 жыл бұрын
For some reason, when I do this I don't have the rig controls for the contraints, those circles around certain joints. I'm not really sure how to pop them up, apart from adding them in manually, which I'm not sure I can do without breaking the automatic rig...
@Mikasawajima12346 жыл бұрын
excuse me, just asking... so I need to animate the asset (something like this) in a different comps and I found that I can't move my Human IK rigs... problem is, it's still unsolved. I'm in maya 2017 and when I transfer it to another comps with the same version the rigs won't work normaly... pls help me ;____;
@spellwhisperrr7 жыл бұрын
Question ! How to prevent file turning in to poop storm ? When re-opening in maya ?
@TheRealKMM7 жыл бұрын
How can i show that button that makes the mesh unselectable? thanks in advance
@aditries79096 жыл бұрын
Its brilliant
@shyland207 жыл бұрын
beautiful work . can you recommend me show reel of good rigger here on youtube? thanks
@lilHoodRD7 жыл бұрын
I Like'd a lot! Thanks!
@Filmstorm7 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!
@kaidkyoung42985 жыл бұрын
how do you weight painting and rig the character with cloth?? my character's body always come out of the cloth (new to 3D stuff)
@oasane8 жыл бұрын
Can you also show how to make&save different animations for this rig ? I'm seting keyframes but, something goes wrong with my animation. Rotating or moving around streches the character in a bad way sometimes.
@Filmstorm8 жыл бұрын
+Ozan Ayten Yes Ozan, I will show you :)
@aRVinDbob3 жыл бұрын
is there any possible way to frezz transform the CTRls of the character in this process?
@GrayveRoseMusic7 жыл бұрын
This is how you would go about doing it the quickest way possible, I wouldnt consider it a standard or dignified practice. Should definitely spend a good amount of time painting weights to make sure the model doesnt bend like a wet noodle, and then design a character rig with controllers and other animation helpers as well if needed.
@justinspearlord5 жыл бұрын
How would you go about bringing this rig into UE4? And could you re-target this rig to the default mannequin rig?
@jaydenwolfe49557 жыл бұрын
I'm working in maya 2015 and I got to the point where the bones have been colored but on the right side of my screen I do not have the "Character Controls". I'm new to this and I had created my own character and am not sure if I am able to access this, could someone help me out?
@dylanhynds58777 жыл бұрын
How would you use the same skinning method for Maya 2014? I really need some help Asap.
@TheStrandedMoose6 жыл бұрын
This is awesome, thanks so much for making this video! I was wondering... how do you edit/paint the weights if they are off? For instance, some of the joints in my arms are binding to the side of my character's head because my character has a huge head
@TheStrandedMoose6 жыл бұрын
never mind, I figured it out. Thanks again!
@Filmstorm6 жыл бұрын
That’s great to hear you got it working. If you need any more help just let me know.
@ldoglondon7 жыл бұрын
Hey so ist his an IK rig and can you apply rag doll physics to it in unity?
@Filmstorm7 жыл бұрын
Yes the created rig has IK. Then you create ragdoll physics with this tutorial kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4uQp3WFiK2iras
@bilosofie2 жыл бұрын
what if i have multiple animations n i want to export them to unity
@masteranthony63127 жыл бұрын
Well done ,, one of the best tutorials I have seen on here , I have been using Maya for a while now however not for rigging I am just getting started on that , Is there any way you can use Maya to put riggs in Charactors for games like second life , most people use blender but i dont like it .
@devincory96957 жыл бұрын
At about 9:54 when you go to export the rig, there is an option in the 'file' menu (highlighted in green) that says "Send to Unity..." What is that for? How/When would I use it? Will it produce better results than a general export?
@Filmstorm7 жыл бұрын
I actually find that in built Game Exporter functions in Maya seem to give dodgy results most of the time. It usually forgets to send specific objects or skeletons correctly over. Better to use the standard export in my opinion.
@animationblaster8 жыл бұрын
Your tutorial is Very Easy to understad.but when you import the character into unity, where is the human controller ?
@Filmstorm8 жыл бұрын
+Manish Kumar Click on the imported model and then change it from Generic to Humanoid. Now follow one of the 3rd person tutorials to create your controller :)
@TheStrandedMoose6 жыл бұрын
Hey man- again, awesome tutorial! I had one more question: Is there a way to get the Humanoid rig to squash and stretch once you've set it up? I am animating my own character and it seems like all the rig controls do not allow for free translation or squash and stretch
@Filmstorm6 жыл бұрын
Hi Andrew, I believe in the HumanIK properties for your setup rig you can adjust how far bones are allowed to move and stretch in a way. It may be enough to tweak and use for squash and stretching with minimal setup.
@TheStrandedMoose6 жыл бұрын
I haven't been able to find that but I did notice you can grab the root control using the character control picker GUI and scale the entire character up and down which is good enough for me. Thanks!
@letsplaysomthing37996 жыл бұрын
hello what about unreal engine 4 its posible to do same but for unreal skeletal?
@Aplus6327 жыл бұрын
hey filmstorm can you help me every time i create the skeleton it's always laying down not standing like yours
@Filmstorm7 жыл бұрын
+Daftkicks gaming You’ll probably need to go into your Maya preferences and change your axis to Y-up :)
@MauricioBG7 жыл бұрын
Hello! I got 2 questions for you: every bone shouldn´t have zero rotation in all axes? So how can you rotate the arm the way you did? And this will generate warnings in the HIK definition "not parallel to the X axis", this could be ignored?
@wakeupshivi6 жыл бұрын
mate can you provide me the deadpool model or tell me where i can get the model in obj format?
@stopfidgetting6 жыл бұрын
Will it still work if I delete bones? (I have a character with only 3 fingers)
@Filmstorm6 жыл бұрын
Yes if it’s just the fingers then it will be perfect still. It’s all about that root node. :)
@obayjaafari44776 жыл бұрын
Hi I doubt you'll see this but ill try anyways, I have rigged some characters with a bit complicated rig using blendshapes for facial expressions and ikspline in maya for the spine, however in unity its not working especially the spine and blendshapes do you know why is this happening?
@Filmstorm6 жыл бұрын
Usually you should have made a custom rig if your wanting to use blendshapes in Unity. I’ll probably make a tutorial to cover this as I have had a few questions about this 👍🏼
@214truema7 жыл бұрын
i have a problem with my rig when i finish weight painting and import into unreal engine it looks blocky but it looks smooth in maya even after I subdivided it twice
@Filmstorm7 жыл бұрын
Which format do you export your model in? Usually that happens with .OBJ. I would suggest FBX if that's continuing to happen.
@214truema7 жыл бұрын
Thanks , i fixed it . I was exporting as FBX but i forgot to delete the history and non-deformed from the edit menu
@johnwilsonvito26707 жыл бұрын
i saw many tutorials but this did the trick now how do i get my model to be my player character? :D
@johnwilsonvito26707 жыл бұрын
i dont get it it wont work now
@manners6426 жыл бұрын
Great stuff! May I ask if this will work for Unreal Engine too? Currently doing a uni project and trying to rig and animate a robotic character for a small game demo! Thanks for your help! :)
@Filmstorm6 жыл бұрын
It sure will, if you have animations from another pack that is built on the unreal mannequin skeleton you can retarget them to work with the maya humanik skeleton. I show how to do it in part 2 of my unreal tutorial 👍🏼
@manners6426 жыл бұрын
Filmstorm Oh brilliant, thank you so much for the quick reply! Will certainly check it out! I'm still very new to this process, I almost finished the model but am unsure about what to do first, retopology, using Substance painter, or rigging and animating (am still also working on mechanics within the UE4 project too). Tutorials like this very much help as rigging and animating seems so daunting otherwise!
@noirwolfcreations88277 жыл бұрын
and this is why u should use Orthographic views to rig a character
@letmego117 жыл бұрын
How that animation pose was compatible with your humanIK rigged?!
@Filmstorm7 жыл бұрын
+letmego11 Which pose are you referring to? Any rig made with my method will allow animation poses :)
@letmego117 жыл бұрын
when you opened your model inside Unity, you already had the Idle animation in your asset folder. you just applied the animation to your character (so your animation was compatible to your new character even though you had made that animation on a different character before). So I am confused, did you make that animation on another humanIK before? In another words, if you import a mixamo animation instead, does the animation still play on this humanIK character?
@wildcookie6 жыл бұрын
I cant seem to move the body when selecting bones (8:50), i select the part and try to move it on x y or z axis but the character stays stationary. Any ideas?
@lukavekichannel8 жыл бұрын
Will u make for 3smax
@Siatsgaming5 жыл бұрын
Great tutorial! But I have the problem that the animation is deforming my whole model which makes it look very goofy! Do u know where my the problem is? I am really struggling right here!
@thisischokochi98537 жыл бұрын
Grate tutorial! :D I there a metod to put some extra bones?
@Filmstorm7 жыл бұрын
Yes when you creating the skeleton at the start, you have the option to add extra bones :)
@neohayabusa136 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for tutorial . For any Chance, Do you have any advice and reccomendation of a way to attach a Head of same character that comes already skinned with face bones to the Human Ik Rig? Such as those 3d models from Xna Lara and Poser that come imported as Fbx (3dmodel with bones and already skinned, but don't just don't have any controllers or ik). Let's say I skin the whole character body with human Ik. but now I just want to attach only head from same character that is already skinned with bones into the Head skeleton of human ik. Can you point orient this head with face bones to the human Ik head? (and hide geometry of the Human ik head that has no face bones?) I will keep searching but if you have any recommendations, greatly appreciated.
@bissukhadgi61247 жыл бұрын
excus me sir... can we use same process for making an animation??
@Filmstorm7 жыл бұрын
Yes you would need to have the character rigged first and then you can create any animation you want either via Keyframe or importing Mocap.
@harrytulloch8877 жыл бұрын
so with method you don't need to Paint skin weights anymore
@CupCakeUnleashed8 жыл бұрын
I keep getting an error when exporting. Delete non-deformer history. I do that and it just breaks the model
@Filmstorm8 жыл бұрын
+Cup Cake Unleashed what you want to do before you rig your model is select all of your model, go to the top bar and click edit-> delete of all by type -> history. Now rig your model and you won't get any errors ;) Basically when you make your model in maya in doesn't like having a history when it comes to rigging so we have to clear it before we start to rig :) hope this helps!
@CupCakeUnleashed8 жыл бұрын
YES
@jeromyperez55327 жыл бұрын
Song?
@heartattack87187 жыл бұрын
I'm Using Maya 2017, and when i try to make skeleton it won't show up. Can you reply Asap please it will much appreciated!
@Filmstorm7 жыл бұрын
+Noodlzz_ hmm it's a bit odd. Is it possible to take a screenshot after you try to make the skeleton. That way I can see what's wrong :)
@heartattack87187 жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYeYdmSaoK2Eeq8 here is the screenshot i have taken. I hope it will help you to identify the problem I'm having. Thanks!
@MixQQQ7 жыл бұрын
PLS HELP my model is to small how to I make things bigger without messing up my model?
@MixQQQ7 жыл бұрын
Does not work same problem as the model
@R-SXX5 жыл бұрын
Does this still work today? I am still thinking I use CAT and animate inside 3dsmax, or do this approach...
@Filmstorm5 жыл бұрын
Yes it still works, you can also use 3ds max and the CAT rig as an alternative. Depends on which one you prefer working with. CAT is great for procedural animations and the HumanIK in maya is great for mocap. 👍🏼
@R-SXX5 жыл бұрын
@@Filmstorm Thank you so much! Then I will go and use 3DSMax, one more question though...is it possible to rig the char. with CAT and animate inside Unity? I had some issues back then with my first attempt and then decided to animate inside 3dsmax, but would be cool if thats possible. Thanks again for the fast answer :D
@Filmstorm5 жыл бұрын
Yes you can use animations that are made in CAT in Unity. The trick which helps is when exporting from 3ds Max is to disable bake animation button (but still have the animation box ticked above it). CAT rigs tend to have a lot of helpers and keyframe a lot of nonsense into the rig so it’s important to disable that box when exporting to get the best results 👍🏼 Good luck!
@R-SXX5 жыл бұрын
@@Filmstorm Wow, that might actually fix the problem... thanks! You helped me out a lot :D
@damocles50476 жыл бұрын
hi man. i'm trying to mirror one one side to other joint but it wont work, why?
@damocles50476 жыл бұрын
well i've figured by myself. its bcz of the lock.
@Filmstorm6 жыл бұрын
That’s great that you got it working! 👍🏼
@munyreach30096 жыл бұрын
Is this method good for animation too?
@Filmstorm6 жыл бұрын
Sure is, you can animate your characters and then retarget them in your selected platform (Unreal Engine, Unity... etc)