Create realistic muscle and skin motion and become productive with the flexible Maya Muscle tools and workflow, while learning creative techniques for enhancing character performances. Contains over 3 hours of project-based training. Perfect for artists learning Maya Muscle.

Popular highlights include:

* Maya Muscle Overview
* Capsules, Bones and Muscles
* Muscle Builder User Interface
* Modeling Muscle Definition
* Custom Muscle Shapes
* Muscle Spline Deformer
* Muscle Stretch Deformer
* Muscle Skin Deformers
* Sliding and Shrinkwrap
* Painting Muscle Weights
* Jiggle, Cycle and Rest Attributes
* Relax and Smooth Attributes
* Muscle Caching
* Surface Attach
* Muscle Setup for Symmetrical Characters

Lesson Outline:

1. Starting up Maya Muscle 2:02
2. Components of Maya Muscle 4:53
3. Adding capsules 5:33
4. Building capsule chains 6:31
5. Creating spline-based muscles 5:50
6. Creating stretch-based muscles 5:52
7. Capsule and muscle setup (and pitfalls) 8:09
8. Connecting muscle objects and muscle skins 7:25
9. Assigning weights to muscle skins 7:21
10. Using the Muscle Builder - muscle placement 6:42
11. Using the Muscle Builder - muscle definition 6:47
12. Understanding maximum bind distance 5:39
13. Changing muscle parameters 9:04
14. Fixing twisting and distortions 6:23
15. Custom muscle shapes 8:50
16. Using muscles with Maya skin clusters 7:07
17. Activating sliding effects 6:19
18. Sliding with shrinkwrap enabled 5:06
19. Jiggle, cycle and rest weights 6:34
20. Wrinkles and folds with relax weights 6:51
21. Smoothing deformations 4:14
22. Indirect smoothing 5:51
23. Mirroring muscles for symmetric characters 6:19
24. Adding more symmetric muscles 7:36
25. Mirroring weights on symmetric muscles 7:38
26. Controlling muscles with a Master Control 4:30
27. Using the transfer weights tool 6:37
28. Node/External caching of skin deformation 5:58
29. Muscle spline rigging tool 3:52
30. Application of Surface Attach 6:49
31. Understanding muscle direction 6:08


Total Run Time:
3:14:30