Maya: A Leg [Character Animation]
3D characters usually talk – and walk. In this tutorial I show you the basic setup of a LEG, first with the straight forward way of "Forward Kinemantics" and then using "Inverse Kinematics". IK lets you concentrate on important things because it takes care of correct rotation of the skeleton's joints, in our example the knee and the foot.
This tutorial leads to another one where I use the complex motion of a Mocap character and copy it with the elegance of the IK leg. I'll post the link to the follow-up here once it's been published.
If you want to have more background information on IK and FK, check out this quite popular beginners' tutorial: • Maya – Joints and IK Handles
The music, as always: "Computer Animation" and "dubius 170", composed by me for this channel, licensed via GEMA.