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Rigging resource

I'm not a big fan of rigging 3D characters. The whole process of creating a character rig is just not appealing to my taste. Fortunately, there are tons of resources out there that can make the rigging process a bit more bearable. My favorite rigging resource by far — and probably the best — is antCGi YouTube channel. Created by indus

How to undo camera movements in Maya?

I thought this was impossible, I thought that you’d need to lock the camera position and save it, so you could then go back to a different angle that was working for you. It turns out you can easily undo (and redo) camera movements by using the square brackets keys, [ and ] respectively. If only I had known sooner about this…

How to easily select multiple curves in Maya?

Let’s say you are animating a tail or something like that, and you need to select multiple curves, you can simple drag and select the curves, right? That can be a bit frustrating over time. There’s multiple ways to automate this multi-selection, and yes, if you are using animBot you can do that, or you can simply open the Script Editor,

How to add custom shortcuts to Maya shelves?

I found this quick tip while I was watching a lecture from my Animation Mentor‘s mentorship. Let’s say you want to add a shortcut for the Content Browser in one of the Maya shelves. Here’s what you need to do: 1. Select the desired shelf, for instance Custom. 2. Find the item you want to add the shortcut to the shelf, in our case Wind

Maya Content Browser

I’m not sure if this is widely known, but Maya has a bunch of samples of objects and other type of content, that you can easily use to test things out. You can access the Content Browser via Windows > Content Browser, or via panels like so: Panels > Panel > Content Browser. From there, you can drag and drop any model into your scene. V