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Maya tutorial on how to use a jaw bone to get your characters mouth to open and close. Covers joint placement and skinning needed to get the jaw to open the mouth. Uses Maya 2011 and a cartoonish low poly character head that I modeled.
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19 responses to “Maya jaw rigging tutorial”
Hello. Thank you so much for the video! However, I have a question, on 11.29, your jaw can move your lower lips and combine well with your low teeth. Why the teeth of mine always drop whenever I move the jaw joint? Big Thx!! Hope you can respond soon.
I love you so much!! this saved me from trying to trail and error one of the worst headaches ive experienced in maya
thank you from saving me future carperal tunnel care bills
it's really helpful. i was always wondering how to rig separated objects. just do parent. thank you.
I always get an error whenever I try to add influence for the jaw and skin. something about Clusters.
Any advice would help. I tried finding things on the same matter by googling still couldn't find anything
Excellent specific tutorial, exactly what I needed!
Ty so much! I was stuck while adding a joint for the mouth
Very helpful! Thanks so much!
hey nathan its very helpfull for my rigging if u dun min can u please upload a human male character facial rig
Very handy, Thanks!
Thnx
@Nathan Webb I was wondering if you knew how to prepare the mouth for phoneme's in Maya. I am a beginner to this process and would not know the first step to it.
Thank you so much for the video! I understand so much now because of you. I know the model was just probably something you threw together but it was a bit hard to look at. lol
Nice tutorial, very easy to understand.
excellent thank you
protip, while you're painting weights, take whatever joint you're painting and rotate it around, set keys on typical points of rotation. Then to see the results of your paint you can just jog the frames instead of dropping paint, selecting joint, rotating, resetting, selecting mesh, and going back to paint 390823 times.
Thank you for this video =)
Thanks! Clear, concise, and easy to follow! 😀
thanks man!! helps alot!!!
Thanks for this tutorial, it was very helpful for my jaw rig. 🙂 You've got a good clear voice too which is great!