TUTORIALS

3ds Max:

IK Arm With Sliding, Soft Stretching And Pinning

Maya:

IK Arm With Sliding, Soft Stretching And Pinning

During both of the above tutorials, we'll create an IK arm with elbow sliding, non-stretchy soft IK, stretchy soft IK and elbow pinning.

REFERENCES

Soft IK in XSI

Soft IK & Non-snapping IK

[Max]How to make soft IK rig like Brad Noble's skeleton Rig?

Super Simple Rig

3ds Max:

Pixar Animation Controls

Maya:

Pixar Animation Controls

During both of the above tutorials, we'll create a rig setup where you can use parts of the mesh to control the deformations rather than, say, typical spline controls

REFERENCES

Presto demonstration at NVIDIA's GTC conference

Making of clean rig controls

3ds Max:

Vector Pose Space Deformer

Maya:

Texture Pose Space Deformer

During both of the above tutorials, we'll create a pose space deformer, in 3ds Max it will be vector based and in Maya it will be texture based.

REFERENCES

MAYA TUTORIAL : build a poseReader with maya nodes

Maya:

Cartoony Eye Rig

During both of the above tutorials, we'll create a pose space deformer, in 3ds Max it will be vector based and in Maya it will be texture based.