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Setting up a ribbon rig

Setting up a ribbon rig - Maya Tutorial

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Setting up a ribbon rig

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- [George] Hi, I'm George Maestri. Today, we're going to start a multi-part series on ribbon rigs. Now, if you're not familiar with ribbon rigs, it's a great way to get very, very flexible rigs. So here's a simple character's arm set up with a ribbon rig. And as you can see, we've got some IK here. But if I grab these controls here, you can see how flexible this is. And I also have some very nice rotational control here, so I can actually get some nice twist in the arm, and all of that is set up using a ribbon rig. Now, how does a ribbon rig work? Well, I'm going to give you a quick synopsis of how they work and then we'll go ahead and set up the ribbon. So a ribbon rig basically works with NURBS patches. So here I have my main patch, which is in the rig, and that actually can be controlled by other patches or other skeletons. So here I have another NURBS patch that's attached via a blend shape, and so if I were to…

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