Rigging for Games

Using the real world production of the animated short and video game Tin Girl as the foundation for learning, you will be shown how to create rigs for a 3D cinematic, and then how to modify those rigs to be ready for game production using popular video game engines.

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Rigging for Games: A Primer for Technical Artists Using Maya and Python is not just another step-by-step manual of loosely related tutorials. Using characters from the video game Tin, it takes you through the real-world creative and technical process of rigging characters for video games and cinematics, allowing readers a complete inside look at a single project.

You’ll explore new ways to write scripts and create modular rigs using Maya and Python, and automate and speed up the rigging process in your creative pipeline. Finally, you’ll learn the most efficient ways of exporting your rigs into the popular game engine Unity. This is the practical, start-to-finish rigging primer you’ve been waiting for!






Enhance your skillset by learning how to efficiently rig characters using techniques applicable to both games and cinematics



Keep up with all the action with behind-the-scenes images and code scripts



Refine your rigging skills with tutorials and project files available on the companion website