From William:
This coming Saturday we’re going to be starting a wee project for regular attendees who are feeling confident with Maya. We’re going to build a simple character (not unalike the gentleman pictured below) and set up a rig to allow us to animate him/ her/ it. In a few weeks we’ll have your characters literally (I’m not even joking) singing and dancing.
For now, here is a video of the rig that we’re going to make in action: http://youtu.be/2JexquMZfF4
And if you’re really keen, here is the Maya file for this chap so you can see what we’re going to get you to make (note that you can choose to model different head attire, you don’t even have to make your character green, why he could be another colour, orange for example, we’re not the sort of folks that mind).
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jqreh50lzrj7lxs/blob.ma
See you all on Saturday!