Quickly Rig your 3D Character in Maya and Maximo

[@davidswantek2295]

For Maya 2022 you need to modify your shortcut so the Target line looks like this: "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2022\bin\maya.exe" -pythonver 2 Because Maya 2022 uses Python V3 by default. Thanks for the tutorial, what a time saver.

[@hotcyder]

Where do you edit that? edit: NVM figured it out!

[@MichaelChidubem]

@@hotcyder Please can you explain how to edit this? I am struggling to do this... keep having the error in Maya 2022. Thanks

[@hotcyder]

@@MichaelChidubem I edited the .py file with a text editor to add the line. Hope that helps!

[@davidswantek2295]

@@DarkCygnet Right click on your desktop icon for Maya 2022. Select the Shortcut tab and modify the string next to the label that says Target: add a space after the double quote then -pythonver 2

[@goranzdravkovic2471]

@@davidswantek2295 Thank you! :)

[@Agency-1001]

Monica really you are the best of the best you deserve a golden like but unfortunately we don't have it on KZbin I hope they make one so we can give it to you each time

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Wow, that's a wonderful compliment! Thank you so much! 💖💖

[@arielnakamura8124]

Academic Phoenix Plus Should be protected at all costs! Love this channel and all the help its provided me and others! Thanks so much

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Thank you so much! Much appreciated!

[@KaptonTimo]

Monica to the rescue again! I can’t believe how many times you’ve helped me!

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Happy to hear that! :D

[@randomamerican6320]

Thanks so much for showing the step by step for how to rig with Mixamo! You're more helpful than you know. I'm trying to convert some game-style MMD characters, which apparently there is a script plugin, but sometimes the rig is straight garbage. This will help a lot!

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

So glad to hear that! Good luck in your cool project!

[@andyb4553]

Wow. What an comprehensive tutorial. I am impressed. Short & just well done. Thx!

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching :)

[@marcelwang9267]

I watched another tutorial for installing the plugin but didn't work. But it worked after following your tutorial! Thank you so much!

[@the_grand_lotus]

You and this plugin are a life saver!!!!

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

I found it really helpful too :) Enjoy!

[@catalinchifan7405]

This mixamo rigg works very good in Maya 2019. Will be more wonderful to have a rigg like this on the face character. For basic rigg is very good. For animators needs more! Thank you very much! :) :) :)

[@RamYadav-rv7rt]

this is not working is maya 2024 plz help

[@wsssdfada4883]

Why didn't I bind my character to my character instead of adjusting the bounding box to a distance from my character. It bothered me for a long time.

[@OverallCreatives]

it says module not found named utlis

[@kosty3171]

i have tried this step by step mam i create button but error is popping up "ModualNotfounderror" and mixamo autorig box is also not popping up so help me out !!!

[@jeronimocollares320]

Plugin dont work in Maya 2022 :(

[@merk7793]

i get his error when running the python script: # Error: ModuleNotFoundError: file C:\Users/Merk/Documents/maya/2023/scripts\MayaAutoControlRig\__init__.py line 6: No module named 'Utils' How do i fix this D: ?

[@tristoncurry6863]

did u ever figure this out?

[@josephhong1221]

Thank you so much for this tutorial! I was having trouble creating custom animations from mixamo so the list of moves i could create were limited. Seems like this video can help me move forward!

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

You're very welcome! I hope this helps. :)

[@johncservek4392]

Every time I try to run the plugin, the script editor throws an error # Error: ModuleNotFoundError: file C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2022\Python37\lib\site-packages\shiboken2\files.dir\shibokensupport\__feature__.py line 142: No module named 'Utils' # Does anyone know why this might be? It's driving me insane. For reference, I am using Maya 2022. Edit: If you are having this issue, it is because starting with Maya 2022, Autodesk has switch to Python v3. You need to run Maya via command line with the flag -pythonver 2 to boot with the old Python v2 for this script to work properly :)

[@starklelight5085]

It worked, thanks a lot! For those who may not know how to do it: (fow windows 10) - type in cmd in search and open the terminal - go to the folder where your maya execution file is located, to do that type in cd example cd C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2022\bin - type in start maya.exe -pythonver2

[@dbzCharml4]

Thank you so much omg!!

[@cgworld.online]

Thanks so much!

[@macmcr7]

Awesome!! Thank you so much, i have been watching your tutorials and i can't thank you enough for them

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

You're very welcome! Thank you for watching!! :D

[@flamenation1784]

Error: ModuleNotFoundError: file C:/Users/C0rpse/Documents/maya/2022/scripts\MayaAutoControlRig\__init__.py line 6: No module named 'Utils' I did add the -pythonver 2 and it still doesn't work, and I'm using Maya2022 :/ oh well...old fashioned way it is then.

[@francescobrunocia3110]

did you fixed it ? i have the same problem

[@amirabasshirani8486]

hi Monika. tanks for your helpful tut. I have some problems. when I try to run the script in Maya. I got this error from python: .../Documents/Maya/2022/scripts\MayaAutoControlRig\__init__.py line 6: No module named 'Utils'

[@eduardoziegler9557]

i also got this error

[@renzovargas7527]

me to, were you fix it?

[@HIGHLIGHTONEPRIDEMMA]

i got the same error and still dont know how to fix it ...

[@nourghafarji]

I remeber the bounding box should fit the character exactly, that's how you get the controllers at the right size.

[@rodrigorevilla2604]

Hey, thank you for your tutorials, are very useful.

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

You are welcome! Thank you for watching, Rodrigo! 😄

[@changtc8873]

Hi, Thank you for this wonderful tutorial!! love you~~~😙

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

You're so welcome! Glad it was helpful, Chang!

[@ilaksu09]

Wow Superb tutorial!...Thanks a lot

[@danpym3D]

doesn't work in Maya 2022 :(

[@krishandrew4354]

Love your work ❤️

[@ARMADUS2]

Great communication and easy to follow. Thank you for supplying this.

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

You're very welcome! Thank you for watching Cameron :)

[@Roberto-tg9xf]

Great video, thanks for your help!

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Glad it helped!

[@gamesfordlegend]

for maya 2019 my character deformed after clicking the auto rig ... any fix for it ??

[@ericbruunk9120]

you are literally the best person

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Thanks Eric! I appreciate it!

[@balachandar3823]

after running script that window is not poped up

[@KushKumar-es5dy]

# Error: ModuleNotFoundError: file D:\Maya 2020\Maya 2022\Maya2022\Python37\lib\site-packages\shiboken2\files.dir\shibokensupport\__feature__.py line 142: No module named 'MayaAutoControlRig' How to solve this error

[@mosesmodise4998]

how do yu further edit the rig like adding jaw bone foot roll

[@SAMAR_178]

NEED HELP ASAP .I am getting this error "# Error: ModuleNotFoundError: file C:\Users/suman/OneDrive/Documents/maya/2023/scripts\MayaAutoControlRig\__init__.py line 6: No module named 'Utils"

[@m0nk3yl0v3r]

Great tutorial thanks!

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching!

[@anvishmehmood8108]

ThAnk you for sharing Maximo series . I have a inquiry for Maximo rig that it provide whole body rig setup but it doesn't have facial setup to it. can you plz share a tutorial that how can we put facial setup rig in Maximo rigged character.

[@InfinityLearning3D]

Thank you so much, hope the script have an update to Python 3

[@vichax]

Very help full .. thank you monica

[@SarpSerter]

Great Video thank you for this but Do you know of a way to also have a hip controller? This process gives me a very usable rig but it doesnt have a hip controller there is just the root controller that moves everything.

[@Thedeathofpeaceofmind]

Thank Monica, for some reasons this only work if there's only my character in the scene, I gotta deleted other meshes for this to work

[@rayanxfit]

There's no way to add auto controls now in maya 24 or 23?

[@pdthegamer2104]

mam body rigg is done but face rig ????

[@animatoranandan]

good to rig thankx, what about facial controls from maximo ?

[@FFZellwu]

Thanks for tutorial~

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

You're welcome 😊

[@K3Z3Y]

Is there a version for Maya 2024?

[@AtomicToyRobot]

got an error trying to run the plug in with 2022

[@ChapCanai]

Same for me: 'MayaAutoControlRig' has no attribute 'UI'

[@EdgyEmoLoliconBoy]

do you have hand rigging vid? thanks btw

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Absolutely! You can start here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6jZlYSvZ6uXntk

[@shubhamshevate6447]

hey after creating controllers successfully the joints get hide and M unable to unhide it. can you tell me the way

[@leandrosn962]

Thank you! It was very helpful! Btw, Had the same scaling issue you had when you created the controler. I guess it is caused by importing the mixamo fbx file into an existing scene. When I imported the same file into a new scene, the auto control rig worked perfectly, without any adjustments or scaling.

[@saswat1997]

thank you very much. best tutorial in this tropic. thanks a lot

[@huydang9918]

This is awesome!

[@mustaghasmughal9120]

but after that how we can rig face

[@abinashbarik1832]

What if our character has baggy clothes?? and the clothes are getting messed up while rigging

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

There's a few ways to handle it. You can paint weights, or you can add separate joints/controllors and animate those. When you have loose clothing/objects, it ads more complexity to the rig. I hope that helps!

[@abinashbarik1832]

thanx for the reply

[@sergioortiz6487]

qUESTION: I HAVE A PROBLEM WHEN I TRY TO MOVE FOOTS,AND PUT KEYS, THEY HAVE A OFFSET?

[@aRVinDbob]

this plugin has multiple errors with the maya 2020 for animating a character though i switch my setting to DG in the animation preferences the viewport has some issues but after it got baked in maya it was good in DG ( evaluation mode settings), & ive finished my character animating I've exported it to FBX, it works fine in unity engine but if I export that same fbx to Blender it doesn't import the animation at all.

[@eloise7247]

Thanks ,Does it works with Maya 2023 ?

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Unfortunately no. I'm trying to find an alternative

[@Artistsunny04]

please @@AcademicPhoenixPlus

[@hcsVpa]

Thanks for the tutorial. Does the python script work in Maya 2022? I downloaded it and made the shortcut, but when I tried to launch the script I get an error message. I am using the Macbook Pro 10:15.6. Appreciate your help. Thanks.

[@stan3626]

Same issue here, also want to know how to overcome the error🙏

[@ahmetmencioglu4394]

Has anyone imported animation to control rig after assigning control rig, because there is flickering especially in foot parts. How we can solve this problem? Thanks everyone

[@sklatord818]

thank you so much. But How can we hide the CTRL ?

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Thanks for watching Chuong! you can grab them all and put them in a display layers. You can hide them using that process. I hope that helps!

[@numandemir3145]

thank you so much this is very useful

[@nalinialfonseca8042]

hi and thank for the clear and direct tut!!!! I run into a issue with Maya 2022 Mac, you say to do this: "You can try this: Right-click on your desktop icon for Maya 2022. Select the Shortcut tab and modify the string next to the label that says Target: add a space after the double quote then -pythonver 2 (Thank you @DavidSwantek!)", but I can locate where is the location you mention "the Shortcut tab", maybe because I am using Mac. if so, you have any idea how I can do that in the Mac? thank!!!!

[@ramen5806]

Im getting "No module named Maya auto control rig" and I'm in MAYA 2020

[@pops24x7]

when i dropped the T-Pose file into maya all i had was the rig not the model, how do i get the t pose model to show up??

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Try deleting the original models (or relabeling it). Then import the file. I hope that helps!

[@YakiAS1]

@@AcademicPhoenixPlus Thank you!!!! i was going mad trying to find a solution

[@safisk1977]

thank you very much

[@zoybean]

AccuRig is a new alternative to Mixamo, which is much more accurate and has more bones. It doesn't have a good control making script out though.

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

I need to check this out!

[@zoybean]

@@AcademicPhoenixPlus One could make their own skeleton definition and save it as a preset, and then just create a control rig from there (that's what I do). What I like most is that you can place and edit bones where you want, so it avoids the problems of wrongly placed bones Mixamo does so often. It's great!

[@thanhphuong2250]

My model had rigg i want to animation quickly . I saw pose model on maximo. Can you show me how to anim but it still appear rigg to i can change

[@zoybean]

Hi, this is really helpful but there's a problem. I don't seem to be able to select independent meshes in face mode; I can only select the entire mesh and modify in object mode now.

[@andreagallo51]

thank you so much! is there a way to rig the mouth?

[@sasnad3]

Used advanced skeleton for maya

[@LifeIsPain878]

@@sasnad3 will the face rig from advanced skeleton combine with the mixamo body rig?

[@sasnad3]

@@LifeIsPain878 Mixamo won't auto rig a mesh that has already been rigged and weighted. It will use the already existing advanced skeleton created in maya and will only apply animation curves to it.

[@LifeIsPain878]

@@sasnad3 kind of a stupid question, but what if i rig the body first in mixamo and then i rig the face with the advanced skeleton. would that work?

[@sasnad3]

@@LifeIsPain878 It all comes down to the how much working knowledge u have and if you can make it work somehow. But if you do it the way that you are suggesting u will run into alot of problems. Mixamo basically doesnt give u an actual rig, it just gives you bones(joints hierarchy) with animation baked onto them. If you bring a skeleton created in mixamo to maya, you will have to unbind and parent that to the advanced skeleton face. But I would never do it this way. What i would do is use advanced skeleton to add the entire skeleton, body plus facial to the mesh, bind and weight it properly and then send it to mixamo to add animations.

[@ammysingh9613]

There are no eye controls?

[@sudharsanuthayasuriyan2717]

You did a great job. thanks a lot

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Glad it was helpful! 😄

[@sohailshaikh7180]

mine is not working its showing error : invalid syntax. how do I solve this pls help

[@nialismcreates]

Does this not work for Maya 2022? i get an error when I click enter

[@rakesh1982rawat]

thanks for this tutorial.

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

You are welcome!

[@futureframe1985]

Really Helpful

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Glad you think so! :)

[@rayanxfit]

will it work on Maya 24?

[@Kjell777Iverson]

Hi there. Not sure if you still monitor your comments but I am using this method to create a quick rig for a character I have and as soon as I start setting keys everything starts going out of place. For instance, the feet will start to move out of place from the controls even if I haven't set any keys on them and all I have done is moved/rotated the torso. Any idea why this might be happening? It only seems to be happening when I set keys on the root control? Changing the animation curves doesn't seem to solve the problem.

[@TheWaldozx]

Same here! Managed to solve it?

[@Kjell777Iverson]

@@TheWaldozx I have not, unfortunately.

[@deepestpurple]

Switch the animation to DG mode in the animation preferences

[@NIKSBR]

Very Useful.. Thanks a lot i just wanted to ask what if I have a custom Humanoid character with 3 Fingers and Tail, does Mixamo Autorig system Understands it and do the Rigging automatically ? Thanks and what if character has facial blend shapes for expressions ?

[@ronakchakraborty8139]

Thanks ,Does it works with Maya 2022

[@nurdianaamiera8885]

Do you know how to add eye controls to the mixamo rig?

[@raspas99]

Thank you for the video as usual! What do you think this system compared to Maya Quick rig?

[@abramjessiah]

FYI, Maya 2023 no longer supports python v2, so you can't run this script in 2023 at all unless the script is updated for python v3.

[@prodijay1211]

Awesome yet again,

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Thanks again! I really appreciate it!

[@P3Connect]

Where can I download the character to use on this tutorial?

[@saikumarp2781]

Hii madam ,my self sai kumar.p I need small favour for u, there one more icon on the above video custom shelf ,can u plz make tutorial on them or text they names ......???

[@manic_animator85]

I don't know why but sometimes when i change some of the faces of a skinned object it make the model too huge As if I rotate some of the joints, Maya will crash! This also happens when I port a model from another software... Can you pls help me fox this?

[@habeebalrahman515]

It worked, thanks

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Great to hear! Enjoy animating your character!

[@prodijay1211]

How can we share work with you so we can get feedback

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

You can share it in my FB community! facebook.com/groups/academicphoenixpluscommunity/

[@amirahazman163]

Hey, I couldn't download the plugin in your website, I clicked the button says 'I want this!'. Nothing seems to happen. Can you help?

[@amirabasshirani8486]

first, you should write how much you wish to pay. 0 $

[@uditamathur8741]

i am unable to add the script. It says No module named 'Utils'.

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Mixamo script does not work with the Maya 2022. If you use Maya 2020 or less, it will work. I'm not sure if Mixamo is planning on updating their script. 🤷 I hope that helps!

[@xrjxn319]

Does the script works on maya 2022 ?

[@adviewdesigns4758]

How to flip legs IK?

[@I_was_a_Bullfrog]

Mine keeps saying "No module named 'Utils'"

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Mixamo script does not work with the Maya 2022. If you use Maya 2020 or less, it will work. I'm not sure if Mixamo is planning on updating their script. 🤷 I hope that helps!

[@adrianoHenriqueART]

sorry the script doesn't run on maya 2022

[@Artixdu06]

This doesnt work on 2022 :(

[@none53]

can we do facial rigging in mixamo too?

[@shawndavis5725]

I'm going to say at this time no. I've been looking for a tutorial on getting blend shapes onto a mixamo rig. No luck yet.

[@none53]

@@shawndavis5725 thanks

[@carmencheng9622]

Hi I purchased the plugin from your website But it is not working, and here are the error scripts: import MayaAutoControlRig MayaAutoControlRig.UI.Main_UI.MIXAMO_AutoControlRig_UI() # Error: ModuleNotFoundError: file C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2022\Python37\lib\site-packages\shiboken2\files.dir\shibokensupport\__feature__.py line 142: No module named 'Utils' # Any ideas folks? Nice tuitorial

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Hi Carmen, Mixamo script does not work with the Maya 2022. If you use Maya 2020 or less, it will work. I'm not sure if Mixamo is planning on updating their script. 🤷 I hope that helps!

[@carmencheng9622]

@@AcademicPhoenixPlus Thanks! What I did is I set up the whole thing in Maya 2020 or less, and then save the scene to work further in 2022.

[@cammondeverett5684]

how to download the plug in????

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Here you go: www.academicphoenixplus.com/downloads

[@amirmehmood3542]

@DAVID SWANTEK @ACADEMIC PHOENIX Please make a solution to run Mixamo Auto Control Rig for MAYA 2023

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Sadly, no update for Maya 2023. They got rid of the old python code that ran it. I'm looking for an alternative option.

[@PKTechs_Official]

@@AcademicPhoenixPlus thanks dear ...still in wait ...

[@caiodias4763]

P E R F E C T !!

[@g4hrt13]

does it work on maya 2023?

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Sadly, no. I'm looking for an alternative. :)