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How to make step the default tangent?

Hi everyone, When I'm animating I prefer at the beginning to just see my key poses as opposed to the spline interpolation between them. I can do...

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by scraigpetty

12-04-2019|01:06 AM

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Simple rigging help...

Hi everyone Please excuse my novice understanding. I've been trying to rig a simple character whilst following a few tutorials; I've set up the...

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by DaveJH

04-03-2019|09:59 PM

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Exporting rig and animation

Hey all. So im having a few troubles trying to export rigs/animations as an FBX from Maya and was hoping someone would be able to help please. So...

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by wilson109

19-02-2019|12:41 PM

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Converting Maya file into an MP4 file

hey, can anybody please help me by telling from the scratch how can i convert maya file (.mb) file into an mp4 video file? Would i be needing to...

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by wilson109

19-02-2019|12:05 PM

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Maya 2018 Human IK rig with fbx mocap animation

Hi guys, While I finished successfully sometime ago the great rigging robot tutorial, I was wondering how to keep my rig to modify an imported...

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by registudio

19-12-2018|04:58 PM

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Pulling a rigged character apart piece by piece?

This is a little morbid but I need to pull a rigged, skinned character apart and I've been playing with ways to go about it but not having much...

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by dre4mer

20-11-2018|11:54 PM

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Tank Treads, but... better?

Hello! I need a solution. I have a circular shaped object that has tank treads traveling on it from about 1 o clock to about 5 o clock. ...

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by sonnyangell1982

05-10-2018|03:46 AM

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Animation on a curve question.

Hi there! I'm currently working on a rig where my character should extend their tongue and I was asked to make a curve based motion. Problem is I...

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by Darkgore

25-05-2018|08:21 AM

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Animation graph editor not showing curves

Hi, im trying to animate a foot and i want to manipulate the movment curve in the graph editor but its not showing a curve like it should. The...

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by Sprinkle

09-02-2018|09:46 AM

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Selecting every second keyframe

Hi, is there a way to select every second or nth frame? I have ~hundred frames - baked range, and to create shivering effect I need to select each...

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by Gen

21-10-2017|01:59 AM

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Maya 2017 trouble with blendshapes

Hi, I created a blendshape for my skinned character, but it will only deform the mesh correctly when the character is in the default position (which...

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by lauris47

14-10-2017|08:54 PM

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Maya Tutorial- How to use Geo Cache

Learn Using Geometry cache in Maya: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6409H2JjWA

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by PratikAnimator

05-10-2017|06:11 AM

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Maya Constrains Attributes Options

Hi Guys, Here is a Quick Video Tutorial,Explaining the Attributes options of Constrains in Maya!!! Tutorial Link :...

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by PratikAnimator

27-09-2017|06:13 AM

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Forest Animation (feb21studio)

Hi everyone this is a portion of another animation walk-through I'm working on please watch out for the complete video soon...thanks!! ...

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by feb21studio

29-08-2017|02:00 AM

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Animating Blocked Out Character

I've read that often a modeler will create a blocked out version of a character to give to the animators so they can start blocking out the...

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by Perfecto

24-08-2017|11:57 PM

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Filtering Timeline Objects (C4D animator new to Maya)

How do you filter Maya’s animation timelines so you can focus on a smaller group of animated objects? I’m trying to do character animation, and I...

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by reason808

18-08-2017|06:28 AM

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Rigging a hakama

Hi, I want to model a character something similar to this. What would be the best way to rig the pants ( Hakama ). Should I do a regular...

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by wozzag1

04-08-2017|06:32 AM

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Eye troube

I have been working on this rig for a long time. I was so very excited to be able to start animating when I rotated part of the torso and the eyes...

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by LeSha

05-07-2017|08:33 PM

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Connection Editor - Face MoCap Connection to Blendshapes

Hi all! * I’m struggling with connections in the Connection Editor. I’ve got a facial MoCap file which I would like to connect to the blendshapes...

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by Luc.Adriaens

02-06-2017|11:31 AM

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Skinning seperate meshes

Hey everbody, i have a problem skinning a character! I started off with having the head and the body as two seperate meshes to make rigging the...

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by fbra

10-05-2017|01:30 PM

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Maya 2017 blendshapes with diven keys, stop working while animating even crashing

Hello. I have a character whose face is animated with control shapes translations as driver for driven keys for the blendshape node. So nothing...

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by darkman222

30-04-2017|08:27 PM

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Weight Painting Issue - Multi-color feedback all one color?

Hi all. I've used the multi-color feedback option/tool before, but I'm still relatively new to rigging. Typically, with multi-color feedback on, the...

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by artbun

30-03-2017|08:52 PM

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FBX export animation issues

Hi there! I'm trying to export an animation from maya for use in Unity. I have a skinned mesh that also utilizes blend shapes. I bake the animation...

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by ziggie

03-03-2017|03:24 PM

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Gum&Teeth problem

Hello there, I don't know if i'm on the right topic; and i apologize if i'm not... So i'm encoutering a curious problem during the blocking...

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