SOFTWARE: AUTODESK MAYA
WHY SHOULD I LEARN RIGGING WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY AUTOMATIC RIGGING TOOLS?
Jeff Berkridge, Pudsey
With more and more tools being released that automatically generate rigs in Maya, do we need to bother learning how to create things from scratch?
Antony Ward replies
Building a rig from scratch can be a time-consuming task. It can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks depending on what you’re rigging and its intended platform, so it is no surprise that many companies opt to use automatic rigging tools. These can dramatically speed up the generation of all those joints, nodes and constraints, leaving more time to focus on other tasks. So, with this being the case, why do we still build rigs from scratch?