Introduction to Rigging for Animation
Placement of the joints 2
A course by joseantoniomartinmartin , Lead Character TD and Rigger
About the video: Placement of the joints 2
Overview
“In this lesson we will start with the placement of the joints. We will see how to anatomically place the chains of joints for torso and head, arms and legs. ”
In this video lesson joseantoniomartinmartin addresses the topic: Placement of the joints 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Rigging for Animation. Learn to create the basic controls of a human character.
Partial transcription of the video
“Ok. now we're going to start placing the joints. The first thing we're going to do is place a center of gravity joint. If we go to the side view. Let's go to Skeleton. joint Tool. and simply Where the waist would be... let's place it a first joint as a center of gravity. press enter to exit and for now We'll stop here for now. Renaming. positioning. and parenting will be done later. At this point. let's on creating the sections. For the spine. it's best to see the side view. And what we'll do is Skeleton. And now we're going to create one Chain. We'll start here. We will trace the curve and...”
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joseantoniomartinmartin
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Jose Antonio Martín has been working as Lead Character TD for almost a decade. During this time, he has developed professionally as a rigger and character TD in companies including Framestore and MPC, which has paved the way to participate in blockbusters such as Gravity (Oscar winner for best VFX), Guardians of the Galaxy, Paddington, Edge of Tomorrow, Terminator Genesis, Suicide Squad, Independence Day: Resurgence, and Ghost in the Shell.
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