Skeleton Joints in Maya

BASIC LOCATION:  Animation Menu Set – Skeleton – Joint Tool

BEGINNER

Creating Joint Chains –

• Very Basic Creating Joints – Autodesk Maya
• Working with joints and bones in Maya
• Add joint to existing joint chain (inserting joints) – Insert Joint Tool

INTERMEDIATE

Human Biped

• (Part 1) Create your skeleton with Maya bone tool, joints and mirror
• (Part 2) Joint Orientation and Reverse foot skeleton
• (Part 3) Rig Maya legs with an IK handle reverse foot and foot roll
• (Part 4) Create hip and spine rigging for your Maya character
• (Part 5) Add a head control, shoulder and arm riggs to your Maya character
• (part 6) Final tutorial Maya rigging, hand and eye controls

Joint Orientation

Pole Vector

Single IK Chains

• Exploring IK Solvers in Maya – Part 1 & 2

 

ADVANCED

HumanIK

Quadroped

 

Tips and Troubleshooting Joints in Maya:

• You cannot make joints in Perspective view.  So if your joint tool is not working, go into the top, side or front view and that will solve your problem.
• The last joint on each joint chain is not usually set.
• The first bone/joint is called the Root Bone – Only the root bone is allowed to translate and rotate.  Other bones/joints should never translate.