3D Character Development Workshop: Rigging Fundamentals for Artists and Animators

by Erik Van Horn

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781683921707
Publisher:	Mercury Learning and Information
Publication date:	03/20/2018
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Van Horn Erik :

Erik Van Horn is an artist, animator and writer, and Program Director of Game Art at The University of the Arts. He has been Digital Art Director for Magic: The Gathering at Wizards of the Coast (a division of Hasbro), and Senior Training Specialist at Disney Animation Studios. Feature credits include Chicken Little, Meet the Robinsons, Bolt, Princess and the Frog, and Tangled.

Table of Contents

1: Character Modeling.
2: Character UVs and Texture.
3: Character Rigging.
4: Character Skinning.
5: Facial Setup.
6: Testing The Rig.
7: Character Animation Tricks and Tools.
8: Postscript.
Index.

Editorial Reviews

Midwest Book Review:
"3D Character Development Workshop: Rigging Fundamentals for Artists and Animators covers the basics of the tools, methods and ideas of character rigging and provides animators with an in-depth survey of best practices to help speed up the process of creating characters. The book includes a Maya file disc of movies and sources of images from the book, while the book packs in color images, screenshots, downloadable examples, and color images supporting concepts of setups, texturing, and different rigging processes. No animation collection should be without this clear survey of the process, which offers a workbook perfect for classroom study or self-instruction alike."

From the Publisher

"3D Character Development Workshop: Rigging Fundamentals for Artists and Animators covers the basics of the tools, methods and ideas of character rigging and provides animators with an in-depth survey of best practices to help speed up the process of creating characters. The book includes a Maya file disc of movies and sources of images from the book, while the book packs in color images, screenshots, downloadable examples, and color images supporting concepts of setups, texturing, and different rigging processes. No animation collection should be without this clear survey of the process, which offers a workbook perfect for classroom study or self-instruction alike."

Midwest Book Review