Udemy – Maya & Unreal: Advanced Skeleton Rigging

We will cover the following core skill sets:

• How to rig a custom mesh with Advanced Skeleton
• How to get started with rigging characters with Advanced Skeleton and the GUI interface
• How to prepare your character for rigging using symmetrize
• How to clean up the outliner groups and hierarchy
• How to work with proxy meshes
• Understanding fit mode
• How to add additional joints for custom controls
• How to fix and polish character rig axis alignments
• How to work  with skin weights, including how to restore skin weights, and working with a skin cage
• How to rig the face
• Advanced Skeleton vs Unreal Engine’s Epic Auto Rigging Tools (ART) comparisons
• Installation process
• Unreal Mannequin and MetaHuman import/export process
• How to use the Name Matcher, Mannequin Templates, MetaHuman Templates, Walk Designer, and Mocap Library tools
• Rigging custom Unreal Marketplace character assets and/or custom created characters
• Posing control details
• FK/IK Matching/Baking tools
• Root motion animation workflow
• How to add auto breathing, auto jiggle, and auto eye blinking
• How to rig an umbrella prop
• How to constrain a prop to both character’s hands rigged with Advanced Skeleton 
• How to create an offset controller to animate a constrained prop
• How to add shape morphing to your character rig
• How to update the outliner for a character rigged with Advanced Skeleton to accept UE4 Mannequin animation to be imported with the custom animation mocap library tool
• Industry Rigging and best practice workflows
• Secret tips and tricks
  

If you have never created a character rig from scratch, you will be 100% ready to do so by the end of these sessions, regardless of whether you are working on games, film, television, or any other character rigging production needs.