Arcane University:Maya for Skyrim
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Maya is one of the major tools for modeling, sculpting and rigging meshes for Skyrim.
Tutorials
- Maya Tutorial for Beginners 2016/2017 (By OnlineMediaTutor) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tElsku3aKQI
Rigging
Basic rigging tutorials can be found here:
- See how its set up here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC9icdaBOus
- See how an NPC body can be added here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTjmFVDx2wg
- See how clothes can be added on that body here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0fMzyG3ZV8
- part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o232lV0OHb4
- part 3: cleaning up, removing hidden faces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R5h7XW6hYQ
- creating an armor part one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSpL13jVF34
Animation
Although the documentation is still in preliminary stages, Coal has uploaded the tools he made for creating new animations for Skywind:
- SkyMaya - Tools for reating custom rigs, skins, and animations
- Skywind Tools - Tools for retargeting animations to a new skeleton
- Animation Pipeline Tools for Skywind - Write-up of the retargeting pipeline
