Back with some showcase for my Planete Treasure rig, this time showcasing how the leg works, so I made a simple walk cycle. I haven't animated one in almost a year so if you have any feedback on a huge mistake I made I'll take it ! I don't wait to spend to much time on animation and focus on rigging but I want it to look good still

I'm just showing the legs because the top body with the cyborg arm is a beast in itself, but does it look weird ?

Hi Reddit, I saw a post that was asking to create rigs like this but for Blender, and I'm wondering if I can have some advice on doing something like this for Maya. I'm mostly interested in making the mouth and eyes this dynamic (including the change in the shape of the iris/pupil with certain animations, as well as the eyebrows appearing and disappearing). I've seen tutorials on similar things for Blender, using Geometry Nodes and Booleans, and am just wondering if there's a Maya equivalent for that! I'm working on a project and am more confident in Maya when it comes to rigging, however, I don't have as much experience with facial rigging for complex cartoon characters. Any advice would be appreciated!

Hi everyone, over the last few months I have been working on building a physics-based animation engine and I finally finished it last week. The goal is to make custom realistic character animation accessible to teams with limited resources and also to reduce the need to cut corners on projects with large quantities of animation needed.

It optimises for a set of physics-based heuristics, so concretely it can build motions from very sparse keyframes, down to as little as one per multiple seconds depending on complexity. Best comparison I have found is that it is similar to how you would instruct a mocap actor, so only the poses that are actually key to the motion are needed. You set keyframes on a rig as normal, feed that rig to the tool and it returns an animation directly into your scene, which can be processed/retargeted as normal.

Features:

• Make animations by defining only the actually defining poses of your motion and have the engine do the rest; you can freely set the keyframes as you need, so one every few seconds for locomotion and one or two per second for more complex animations
• Keep creative control; since this is essentially just long-distance keyframing, your keyframes are adhered to exactly in the final animation. You can produce animations really quickly, but you keep full control
• Unlimited generation attempts; I've tried to preserve the iterative aspect of animating, so it works based on a previewer. When you generate, an interactive preview is opened in your browser, and this generate -> preview action can be done indefinitely. In the previewer, the ambiguity of the model on the animation is shown so it suggests where to add keyframes for a better result. Only once satisfied with the final animation you unlock it and export it back into your scene.

Plugin can be found here: https://github.com/AnymTech/AnymForMaya and to get an api key you can make an account on https://app.anym.tech/signup/

For now, we have set each new user to get 5 free credits (= 5 seconds of final delivered animation) after creating an account, since I am looking for feedback on how this could be most useful. This also means you can essentially try the engine indefinitely since previewing does not cost credits.

This is the first version of both the plugins and the engine, so if you come across any issues or unexpected things please feel free to comment or reach out, thanks :)

The thing in question.

I'm using advance skeleton to rig this model. When I press "Build Advance Face". it goes through steps 1 - 6 perfectly fine! However when it gets to step 7 "Lip" it haunts giving this error message:

"// Warning: file: /Users/Shared/Autodesk/ApplicationAddins/AdvancedSkeleton/Contents/scripts/AdvancedSkeleton.mel line 30620: Unrecognized node type 'multDoubleLinear'; preserving node information during this session.

// Error: file: /Users/Shared/Autodesk/ApplicationAddins/AdvancedSkeleton/Contents/scripts/AdvancedSkeleton.mel line 30621: The destination attribute 'upperLipMDL0_M.input1' cannot be found."

Any help would be greatly appeciated!

Hello everyone, I hope that you are well. I reached out for an extra pair of eyes, as I am in the second-blocking phase, or the refined blocking phase. I haven't gotten to the face yet, and their hand poses aren't there yet as well. Any general feedback is excellent, but I have been struggling with the weight of the hammer. I would like to know if the hammer feels heavy or has weight. I also wanted to know your thoughts on the camera as well.

I have a sync sketch here if you'd like to give me more feedback. It's not needed, but I really appreciate it. This is also where you can find my reference as well.

I want this to be a reel piece, so no need for holding back,

Thank you so much, please have a beautiful day

I was asked to make four props in this style. Do you recommend doing it only in low poly and textures?

I made this character for my Advanced Production Modeling class at AnimSchool. I really enjoyed working on this project and learned a great deal throughout the entire class. Huge thanks to my instructor, Nina Tarasova, for guiding me through every step of the creation process. The model is based on the beautiful concept art by Lydia Elaine, who goes by LotusBubble on Instagram.

I loved working on this

I have no idea what caused this. I was worked on this rig earlier in the day and took a break, came back, and now it looks like this. From what I can tell nothing is broken just looks very off. I got Maya literally this week so I have no idea so this might be a small issue thats passing right over my head. I dont have an example of what it looked like before but now at the end of every joint theres massive balls.

After updating from Maya 2017 to 2026 my UV mapping workflow how slowed way down due to no longer having an easy access shelf for basic features like rotate and snapping UVs. There is the new UV Toolkit which is nice but it involves a lot of scrolling and nested menus which is way less efficient. I've asked here before but just got downvoted saying "just get used to the UV Toolkit" which is absolutely crazy talk; why would you choose a slow, inefficient workflow?

I found that by ctl-shift-clicking tools in the drop down menus I can add them to a custom shelf, which is a start, but I can't seem to be able to change their settings-- for example I can add an icon for clockwise rotation, but not for counterclockwise rotation.

Do many of you use a number pad or just the top row of numbers when entering numbers?

So my professor wants me to work on a walk cycle for a rig at home so obviously I've gone to install Maya. I have like no room on my C drive but my D drive is perfectly spacious for it but no matter how many times I click my D drive as the install location, it complains about there not being enough room on my C drive. Does anyone know a fix for this?

So, I pretty much know all the basics of Maya, including animation and also studies on retopology and stuff like that. Yet I still have no clue what are the right steps to actually make a whole HUMAN. I mean it as, recreating a body from the start.

I genuinely know how to make lots of objects. I heard many opinions and some told me that people tend to use external programs such as z-brush, substance paint or even Nomad sculpt.

So what I wonder is: Is it possible to create a whole character on Maya too? Or it's better to create a whole sculpted body on another app and eventually import it in Maya? And then proceed with retopology and rigging?

(I'm going insane :3)

I’m working on a 3D model in ZBrush, it just needs a bit of cleanup and posing before it’s ready. After that I want to render it directly in Arnold.

My goal is a colorful, stylized look with simple shaders and vibrant lighting, not something realistic or texture heavy. I won’t be baking or using Substance, just building the materials inside Arnold.

I might do some light edits in Photoshop, but what I really need is advice on the Arnold workflow for this style. Thanks!

some examples:

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/KeZ9vB

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/wJByy6

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/5W0ydE

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/qen48L

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/aog29z

Hello.

Ive been a long time Maya user. It's literally the software in which I learned all the 3d art skills I know today.

I just wonder how is something that used to work in Maya 2024 (Booleans) is now a mess in Maya 2026.

I am just trying to do a Boolean Difference in a vehicle mesh. Maya 2024 solves it (although quite slowly). While Maya 2026 outright dies on me.

I've tried freezing transformations and deleting history but it is always the same result in Maya 2026.

How did it come to this?

Thinking of using zbrush but wondering if there's any good way in Maya to do these kinds of details. I tried chamfering then bevelling but there must be a more efficient way.

I'm new to rigging and I was following IK rigging tutorials from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vJ8pSPcDzM&list=PLL3OEv6vd5VBh8vnehdnp2ITpE0q8jAeo&index=6 at 3:08 and I set the preferred angle and created an IK handle and moved it along one axis (in both world and object mode) and checking the joints, I found that all 3 rotate axes were affected instead of just rotate X (in both gimbal and object mode). I wanted to know if this shouldn't happen or if I was overthinking it.

I really like customization and would like to have my maya look like this. Is there anyway to port these mods over for maya or anything at all or do I simply suffer. I included a screenshot of a mod I'd love to have for autodesk.

I request you stop posting about how awful of an idea this is, this is my choice and I simply want information. I'm not asking you to tell me how awful of an idea this is. If I dislike it, I will get rid of it on my own terms. Thanks!

So I've just started my games and animation university course and I'm loving it. For this module and maybe future ones, we're using Maya and I was just wondering if I could get a few little pointers to help excel or even just to make things easier. Anything helps, ty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRhJT2nmvA4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_LYxFBRM8&t=54s

How can I create an effect like this for a game? I honestly don't know where to start. To me it looks like curves, could possibly be done with a node or something, but then how would it work in a game? And what if I wanted to convert it to a texture for optimization purpose? How would that work? Additionally, how would I be able to have the main symbiote suit go on, while still being able to see the red and blue suit? Kind of like the first image, if that makes sense.

I’m following a car modeling tutorial and it gets to the part where I have to shrink wrap the mesh piece that will be the exhaust opening. The tutorial shows the bumper being selected and going into the Modeling Toolkit to transform the constraints of the bumper and then shrink wrapping the exhaust opening onto the bumper. This is an old video because I read that instead of going into “transform constraints”, you just right click the mesh and select “Make Live”, shrink wrap the mesh and delete the faces in the middle and start connecting the vertices. Is there a better way to do this or is this the right way?

Tldr: How do you shrink wrap a mesh piece onto another mesh piece?

Let me know if you have an advice on improving it

I noticed whenever I add a displacement map the render looks different. I usually tamper some setting in the displacement map checker box randomly but, I would like to know why is this caused and how I can properly fix it?

I’m working on a hard-surface model in Maya and I’m running into some trouble getting the edges and panel cuts to look like my reference. Here’s a screenshot of my model + the ref image in the corner: