Rigging for Beginners: the Arms in Maya

Hi Creators,
We have already rigged the legs and spine. Now it's time for the Arms! In this video tutorial we are going to set up a simple FK arm. We will be going over constraints, joint placement, and more. Let's get started!
Software used: Maya 2019
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[@Remm3d]

I'm in a university rn, and by no means a small university, it ranks #2 in our country and our teacher taught exactly this whole course but over the span of six months and that too lazily, I thank you for putting this up for free. By no means do I plan on doing rigging as a career but it's good to learn it!

[@wilhelm992]

Thank you so much, my college teacher is not very good at teaching this and this helped a lot!

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

I'm thrilled to hear it helped you! I wish I had tutorial like these when I was going to school. Thank you for your comment! :)

[@Scrahdabley]

im pretty sure my teacher kept coming in drunk or hung over and taught us nothing lmao such a waste phoenix is saving my life lol

[@zachhunter7897]

I hope you realize how amazing this course is! Very accessible and easy to follow! THANK YOU!!!!

[@RVallespin-pc7nn]

thank you very much Ms Monic your video is a big help for me who is in trouble in my rigging project. God bless you always.

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Glad it was helpful! 🥰🥰

[@moardor]

Have thanked you recently but have to come back again in the comments and do it again. This is the third character I've rigged while following your tutorial. We appreciate you!

[@maddy9198]

Your videos have been so helpful to me throughout my college experience! Thank you for being one of the few amazing open sources available to me

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

You are so welcome, Maddy! Thank you for watching!

[@caramelcoffees]

this rigging tut is a lifesaver

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Glad to hear it! I hope you enjoy animating your character!

[@FeedingWolves]

Awwwww yeah!!! You are making learning rigging possible and so much fun! You are awesome!!

[@ShubhamEgave]

Hello mam your videos have been so helpful to me! Thank you for being one of the few amazing open sources available , can you make mechanical rig tutorial and advance rigging tutorials it would we a great help .

[@prathameshgaikwad7550]

All the stuff I need to study is in this channel.

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

I hope you learn a lot!

[@kylebird4264]

Everything about this tutorial is so awesome! Thank you for being so helpful!

[@thanosmourtz1158]

Well thank you so much ! I'm new to maya and i'm learning all alone and this is so helpful..this is a gift to me continue the good work, love your videos

[@mando074]

I love your tutorials. Getting back into rigging after a long time so this re-fresher is great! BTW I really liked the Duplicate+Group+Scale X -1 to mirror trick! I did not know that one! Thanks again for the great tutorials. Good job!

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Great to hear! Sometimes mirror doesn't work, so this methods definitely works. :) Thank you for watching!

[@sasnad3]

I love the sounds you make whilst playing with the rig. Plus I love your voice

[@daniellune9981]

Settle down there cowboy

[@Totorus]

Great tutorial, thanks for sharing!!!

[@ferranzozaya3151]

Thank you!! very helpful!

[@SirMovies101]

Question, After we freeze transformations on the controls the pivots change to world orientation, which is different from the joint pivot orientation, shouldn't our controls follow the joint orientation to make rotating the arms more intuitive. Is there a way to freeze transformation and match the control orientation to the joint rotation orientation?

[@ernestoggg4873]

Nice and clean......thanks Monica! :)

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

You are very welcome, erneso. Glad you liked it! :)

[@Creative_minds_4U]

thank you...your video very helpful to me

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

You are most welcome!

[@Harsh_Trip]

Monica you da best!

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

You are too kind, Oscar! Thank you so much for watching and the support. :)

[@SumroGaming]

Many thanks. Monica baby I'm so glad. 😭🙏

[@emmanuelmulaudzi9765]

Thanks

[@mazi2043]

you are awesome, love your tutorial. can you show us how to rig skeleton muscle and the skin together?

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Thanks George! Glad you liked it! Muscles and skin are advanced and beyond the scope for this tutorial. Sorry! I hope you find what you are looking for.

[@gurusethra2981]

Hey, Can I know why you didn't use an IK for the arm?

[@ahmeterzurumlu9116]

I followed the tutorial and when I'm trying to create IK for the arm my constrains go crazy, IK is broken it goes all over the place

[@antarasengupta9000]

thanks for the tutorialbut when moving the wrist, it was not rotating. why is that?

[@emmanuelmulaudzi9765]

hi i would be glad if you reply to this so i have done rigging,ik and fk handles are done from your tutorials but now i am facing a problem where by i cant rotate my characters full body if i try my character deforms so please help what to do if you want to make a video on that it will prove helpful also

[@ahmeterzurumlu9116]

Hey the tutorial is amazing I have to thank you for this series, it helped me a lot, but I could not manage to create an IK rig for the arm that could also manipulate the finger attributes. Could you please help me with this?

[@wilsoncloud6916]

what is the reason of vanishing bone between joint as i parent joints with controls?

[@ankitaggarwal384]

Thnks for this

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Thank YOU Ankit! :)

[@user-mu8ok5xf8d]

when i try to parent constraint the hand control the hand rigg moves and rotates out of place.

[@subba19]

Hi, i wanted to ask, why didnt you use IKhandle for Arms?

[@Anahronic]

Why are you not using the "snap to center" when you plasing joints?

[@Rajuuken]

Thank you for these tuto, it's really easy to follow! Can I ask you why you've chosen the A pose over the T pose for your character? I heard A is recommended but I never knew why.

[@090simran]

Hi Monica You didn't creat the hip control. So is it method or it's same as like further controls? Any trick or method please share it.

[@therealKrak]

Somehow after I set the first key for an animation the control handles are just getting ignored... is there a reason/fix for this?

[@sivaa520]

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[@saitejagoudseeka5904]

I can't find part two

[@noushad4708]

Hello mam i have some problem, when i use some deform faces using blendshape then my character face face unbind from main control

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Did you delete your history or freeze your transformations in your blenshapes? If you did, then that's what did it. Blendshapes need the history (connection to original mesh) and translations. You might need to recreate them. Sorry!

[@michaelalcantara9522]

can you make a video on how to unbind the joint to the skin? so that I can change the position of my joint :(

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

You can click on the mesh, and in skin, choose Unbind Skin. That will remove your bind to the skin. Hope that helps!

[@BoxKingKevin]

You're beautiful, I love you for always making these videos to further my education

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Thank you! Glad you found it helpful. :)

[@romasharan6674]

Слишком много ошибок как для одного урока. Наверное не стоит так спешить

[@haroldtejero]

You are too messy. but thanks