Essential skills in character rigging / by Nicholas B. Zeman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zeman, Nicholas Bernhardt, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rigging (Computer animation).

Characters and characteristics--Computer simulation.

Characters and characteristics.

Three-dimensional imaging.

Kinematics--Computer simulation.

Kinematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations, photographs, tables

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : A K Peters/CRC Press, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Character rigging is the method with which you create a system for animating a character. A rig is represented by two primary mechanics: the skeleton, consisting of hierarchical rotations to drive the motions, and a skin, or method of deforming the geometry that makes up the character model. Essential Skills in Character Rigging is a beginner’s guide to learning and understanding the essential aspects of character setup, evaluation, skeletal construction, and deformation. Borrowing from the author’s extensive experience in the field, it presents the primary theories, constructs, and objectives for constructing a basic rig from the ground up, just as it would be done in a professional studio.

Contents:

chapter 1 ◾ Hierarchies

chapter 2 ◾ 3D Rotations

chapter 3 ◾ Joints and Joint Orient

chapter 4 ◾ Primary Skeleton

chapter 5 ◾ Intermediate Skeleton Setup

chapter 6 ◾ Inverse Kinematics

chapter 7 ◾ Introduction to Deformation

chapter 8 ◾ Skinning a Character

chapter 9 ◾ Relationships

chapter 10 ◾ Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780429171536

0429171536

9781482235241

1482235242

9781498788120

1498788122

9781482235234

1482235234

OCLC:

932303313