Cartoon Eye Rig Maya

Cartoon Eye Rig Maya

 

Key concepts we'll be working on:

 

Today, we will rig a cartoony eye.

 

Some new concepts and deformer in this tutorial, with the first use of a Lattice system and how to manage it in the rig.

For this tutorial, we’ll create a rig with controls for look orientation, eyelid controls and also a global cartoony deformation of all the eye.

There are a classicle rigging part first and then we will work on two dynamic system, one for the iris / pupil and one for the global deformation.

 

 

In theses videos, we'll cover the following points:

 

_How we organize ourselves with pivot and controls

_how to skin correctly the eyelid and enable specific options

_How to use correctly a lattice in the rig

_How to create a dynamic projection between two mesh

_Clean and finalize the rig

 

 

What you get with this tutorial:

 

_Model scene (.ma / .fbx )

_Rig scene (.ma )

_EasyRigCGI shelf and script 

_Technical concepts

_Full Tutorial video ( 1h15 )

*usefull tool for skin : brSmoothWeights

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Model

Rig

Tuto

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