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Bonus tools in Maya for rigging

Bonus tools in Maya for rigging - Maya Tutorial

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Bonus tools in Maya for rigging

- [Instructor] Hi, I'm George Maystreet. Today we're going to take a look at Maya's bonus tools as they apply to rigging. Now, if you're not familiar with bonus tools, you can find them in the Autodesk app store. Just search for Maya bonus tools and you should be able to find them and download them. Now, once you download them and install them, you should get a menu that looks something like this. Now this is for a number of tools. It's not just rigging tools. It's an evolving collection of tools that Autodesk provides. So, we have a bunch of modified tools. We have some modeling tools. We also have a bunch of rigging tools. So, we're going to take a look at some of these as they apply to rigging characters. Now, there are some nice auto rigging features that I want to show you. Now, some of these allow you to create joints. They allow you to modify skin and then under control, there's a number that allow you to create…

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