Rig it Right! Maya Animation Rigging Concepts, 2nd edition

I wasn't sure if I should buy this book given I also had the "Introducing Autodesk Maya 2016" -- but VERY GLAD I DID. The author in this book offers experience-based opinions through out the whole book. Honestly I wish more books were written this way. For example, in other books Rigging is defined as always building a skeleton. "Rig it Right" spends the first few chapters explaining and walking you through examples of how do you don't always need to do something overly complicated. After spending a few hours with this book, I made huge progress on my characters. and I'm only 1/2 way through the book. Great stuff. Highly recommended.

So far I've stumbled past only one semantic change that this book didn't accommodate - what amounts to toggling "Preserve Children" instead of "Discrete Transform". Everything else in this book is quite informative and insightful - this is not a limp reference guide to something we could navigate to freely online. It's a class - you learn what you're doing and while you do that, you learn why you're doing it. You learn what doesn't work, too.It's no substitute for familiarity, but almost no technical guides ever are. It's still important that Riggers spend time with it, stay in practice, etc. To me it was vital that I reference something and learn the ins-and-outs rather than reach for that suspicious little crutch Maya gives us with the Character Controller feature in post-~2014. As tempting as that (frankly, overdue) feature has become, it's going to prove to be too little for anyone who's doing more than setting up a reference mannequin.In closing I'd like to add that the author is easily one of the most entertaining guides I've ever encountered in print. So it's good for a laugh too, how bout them apples.

I have had this book for over a year, and found it to be instantly helpful in learning to rig my own characters. Yes, Tina makes jokes in the paragraphs, but I find it keeps me from getting too bored with the extremely technical aspects of the subject matter. I also enjoy her comments about how things were years ago, to give beginners some perspective on how much much CG has changed since early versions of Maya. Tina is a former teacher of mine, so I knew this book would be good, but I was surprised that after going through it, I am no longer intimidated by rigging at all. I plan to use this book as a Text for a beginning rigging class I'm teaching myself next month.

This book is amazing, I purchased this in order to acquire the knowledge needed to rig characters for video games. This book is very detailed and the author takes the extra step to provide you the small details that make or brake the rigging process. I am currently teaching courses in 3D modeling, but this has given me the knowledge to also help my students build Riggs that work well with their final projects.If you are looking for a book that explains the rigging process then I recommend this book.

Rock solid crash course on basic to intermediate rigging. Although it's centered around using Maya most of these techniques could be applicable to most packages.Although It wasn't for me as I was looking for something a bit more advanced if you are getting started this will get you 70% production ready and that's pretty damn good from one book.

This book is worth the money , the way the authors explains the processes is straight forward and easy to understand.The topics are what you would expect for a production rig , it covers creating UI for yours rigs, Bendable limb setup etc .On a scale for 1 - 10 where 1 i terrible and 10 perfect for users who want to learn rigging concepts id give it an 8 .Reason for the 8 ?There isn't much scripting information in the book , though it did come with some scripts to try out .I wanted to learn how to automate certain task but that's just me asking for a bit too much .The assignments are also great to follow . Get this book plus a Mel scripting book .

Very very well written book. I learned a tremendous amount about rigging from it. The school I went to sadly does not have much of a tech side offered. I didn't realize this until later on in the curriculum. No rigging class, no scripting class. So I bought this book and learned quite a bit through it. As of this review writing, the author is no longer at the school she is mentioned as being at in it and is now at SCAD and has been promoted. Judging from this book she seems to be a tremendously talented educator and artist.the line of humor she uses provides a nice backdrop to the lessons too so you won't get bored to tears and loose focus in the lessons. Things are done very step by step.

I ordered this book at 10:30 am and it was delivered by 6 pm. ...fastest order I've ever had fulfilled. I love amazon! ---now the book--- I like the way she has divided the ideas in this book. It allows my brain to sort out the 'nerd' info from the nitty gritty info that really matters. She has a sense of humor and it bubbles over in her book, nicely done! Thank you!!!

This is a great book. I haven't finished it yet but it has clarified a lot of muddy issues I had after watching several professionally produced tutorial videos. This book answers a lot of the 'why' questions that I had and does so in a good-humoured, knowledgeable way.Initially, I had difficulties as I couldn't get the course files that accompany it and the book assumes that you have access to them to the extent that it's not fit for purpose if you don't. They are not at the place advertised on the cover and I once I found the new location I couldn't download them. After a few message exchanges with a Routledge employee via the book's facebook page it turns out that there is an issue downloading the files in the UK (or not in the US, I can't tell which). They weren't able to resolve this fully at the time but made the files available to me via a separate download area. I thought this was great service - far better than I had expected when I first encountered the problem.The intended location for the project files is here (assuming Amazon accepts the link):http://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/_author/ohailey-9780240820798/project.phpI understand that the author is in the process of writing a new edition of this book scheduled to be out in the second half of 2018, which will include Maya features introduced since this book was written. It's for that reason and the original issue that I had getting the supporting Maya files that I don't give this book the full 5 stars.If you want to learn rigging, can't wait for the new edition, and you can access the accompanying Maya files I wholeheartedly recommend this book to you.

The author goes through concepts and the inner workings behind the difficult technical task that is rigging with precise language and a good dash of humour. Written in a way that allows the reader to understand each task they are undertaking from the inside out, this book is a must-have for any trying to incorporate TD into their skillset, whatever level they plan to take the skill to.

This book not only shows you how to do things, it explains the process to make sure you have a clear understanding, a lot of the rigging techniques can help a character animator; not only understand rigs better but actively solve problems like unlocking hidden attributes and so on, i would recommend this book to Animators as well as Character TD's.

The book was good quality and very useful for me for teachin maya

Anyone interested in learning the rigging process, this book is your first step.