Bestest Maya training DVD / books for an old Max hand?

Rigging
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Hello all,

This is the sort of thing I assume has been asked before but I couldn’t find owt when I searched.

I’ve decided learning to rig characters in Maya would be good for me and I want to get a hold of a really decent training DVD or book so I don’t have to figure it all out for myself.

I’m a long term max user with a decent handle on rigging&scripting in that and have a fair bit of lightweight development experience in decent variety of languages so I’m not after noddy level instruction.
I want something that’ll explain a good rig with stretchy bones, twisty links, scripting, the way controllers work and so on - the good stuff basically.

I’m not in a position to take a proper training course so I do really need to be looking at DVDs/books etc.

Do we have any favourites?

Many thanks chaps.

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Animator friendly rigging by Jason Schliefer.

http://jasonschleifer.com/tag/animator-friendly-rigging/

Or Fahrenheit Digital has one by Aaron Holly that is pretty good too.

http://www.fahrenheitdigital.com/dvds/rigging/feature-animation-rigging-dvd.php

hard to get that one anymore, luckily a buddy of mine was able to purchase it and he let me watch some of it.

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Thankyou very much :smiley:

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I second the suggestions by mattanimation, ‘cgToolkit the art of rigging’ is also a great resource.

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For the best explained, most detail ground up explanation I would go with Aaron Holly, for the more complex and animation ready rigs with some really great script/tools and workflows I would pick Jasons stuff, either one for some one that all ready knows how to rig would be fine.

There are some great free resources as well like http://td-matt.blogspot.com/ from Sockmonkey(matt here on the site)

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I knew asking here was a good idea.

much appreciated gents :slight_smile: