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Blend shape question

I have modeled a dinosaur that will have facial animation so I am going to have to make some blend shapes. My question is this; should I seperate...

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by Velusion

25-10-2004|07:18 PM

Replies: 9

binding mistake

hallo to all, i'm going to follow the book MAYA Character Animation by Jae Choi, but i've some problem. I try to explain: I've modeled my...

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by flys

25-10-2004|05:52 PM

Replies: 4

hiding skeleton

Hi, I want hide a skeleton without hiding the objects parented to it. basically is it possible to hide an object without hiding its child?

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by redcore

25-10-2004|01:30 PM

Replies: 3

Importing/Exporting Skin weights

Well found out that probably the only solution for my problem will be aplaying the blendshapes before skinning him BUT redoing all the weights wont...

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by Nimmel

21-10-2004|03:18 PM

Replies: 1

Problems with blendshape and rigged character

Hey guys.. im having a little problem.. i got my character all rigged up and ready to go and also with the blenshapes done (aplyed to the wrap...

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by Lotus7

20-10-2004|06:17 PM

Replies: 0

saving key frames as a movie

thats acshuly a good question, i'd like to know, for i.m a newbie to maya and have created a few frames of a person movie and like to save them as a...

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by EXUE_KAN

18-10-2004|04:39 AM

Replies: 0

lattices and facial animation

Hi i'm new to maya and just come from xsi, Its my first post and I feel abit bad asking a question for my first sorry i'll try to answer some when i...

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by midimoose

14-10-2004|03:06 PM

Replies: 2

blender dynamics

im looking to animate a blender, trying to make the fluid/food inside the blender animate. im not sure yet how real i want this to look, if it gets...

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by Turbo Dan

12-10-2004|03:20 PM

Replies: 0

Compositing

I don't know if this is the correct place fo this but, I was wondering how you would composite and animation with real video footage, so that the...

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by goosemage

11-10-2004|02:30 PM

Replies: 2

rig unbound from skin problem i think

hey guys, I'm having a small problem with a model for a uni assignment of mine. I've been given a rig to animate. I created a whole bunch of...

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by niobi xd

11-10-2004|03:50 AM

Replies: 4

Dup-ed Control problems

I've come across a problem with one of my controls on my rig. I have it as a FK control for the right shoulder. When I rotate the control, the...

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by InvaZimm

05-10-2004|07:06 AM

Replies: 3

SDK duplication

I'm trying to figure out how to get an effect thats hard to describe in text: For help in visualizing what I'm going for, think of the spinning...

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by Nimmel

03-10-2004|07:33 PM

Replies: 4

"Those Eyyyyeeees! OH MY GOD... THOSE EYES!!!" ;)

Okay, I'm so not ready to animate this but I have a question anyway re: how to animate beady little round eyes. This is what I had in mind but I...

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by ArtBlack

03-10-2004|09:45 AM

Replies: 9

IK SPLINE HANDLE

Hi! Is ther a way to draw path and force the joints with IK handle to follow it?

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by Pony

30-09-2004|02:54 AM

Replies: 1

annoying lattice question...

Hey All, Im just doing up some toony eyes ...simple sphere ...two half spheres and a lattice around them all (to do any customising of the shape...

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by Paul Moran

28-09-2004|10:54 PM

Replies: 2

switching cameras while playing

Hi there. What i would like to do, is to be able to press play, on the time line, and for my camera to change automatically it goes through the...

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by antiant

23-09-2004|01:37 PM

Replies: 1

extracting the movie

I made a bunch of key frames of a burning house but how can I extract the movie from Maya? I figure by the time I get a reply I may have already...

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by XSI Guy

21-09-2004|08:34 AM

Replies: 1

animating growing plants???? help

I am attempting to animate a plant growing round an object and have come unhinged whilst trying it. The flower heads and leaves are easy, I'm using...

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by fentron

03-09-2004|08:08 AM

Replies: 3

Joint Rotation

Is there a way of locking the rotation of a joint around one axis? e.g. I only want the knee joint to rotate around the X and not the Z or Y,...

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by Beck_Bristo

02-09-2004|11:11 PM

Replies: 3

reverse animation timeline

I have created a simple animation which I would like to play in reverse but can' seem to find a simple way to do this. Do I have to render then...

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by Beck_Bristo

02-09-2004|11:09 PM

Replies: 3

choping off a arm

Hey, In the project I am working on I want to have a character that gets his arm cut off. My question: how would I go about having his arm attached...

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by Beck_Bristo

02-09-2004|11:06 PM

Replies: 3

animating between shaders

Ok. this ones a little more tricky. I would like to animate a change in a shader. I would like to show the transformation between one shader to the...

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