Digital Tutors - Rigging Your First Character in MODO 801

Duration 3h 22m Project Files Included MP4

In this series of MODO tutorials we'll learn core rigging concepts and tools when rigging characters for animation.

We'll start by getting our model ready to be rigged. We'll then create the character's skeleton from the ground up.

Next, we'll skin the model to its skeleton and refine its deformations while learning helpful weight-painting

techniques. To conclude the course, we'll create an animator-friendly control system, with the help of constraints,

expressions, and the channel links tool, so that our rig is robust and efficient.

By the end of this MODO training, you'll have the skill set needed to rig your own characters for animation.

1. Introduction and project overview

2. Cleaning up the model

3. Creating a joint chain for the torso, neck, and head

4. Drawing the leg chain

5. The pelvis bone

6. Adding joints for the arms

7. Drawing joints for the left hand

8. Finishing our finger joints

9. Mirroring the arm chain and cleaning up the skeleton

10. Skinning the model

11. Editing skin deformations

12. Adding a global control

13. Controlling the torso

14. Connecting our spinal joints to their respective controls

15. Locking channels and making the rig more presentable

16. Adding a pelvis control

17. Controlling the neck and head

18. Rigging the legs

19. Cleaning up the left leg's IK setup

20. Adding a foot roll system and creating a leg control

21. Wrapping up the leg control and finishing the foot roll system

22. Rigging the right leg

23. Clavicle controls

24. Arm controls

25. Controlling the character's wrists

26. Finger controls

27. Finishing the finger controls

28. Finalizing the rig