Arcane University:Maya for Skyrim

Maya is one of the major tools for modeling, sculpting and rigging meshes for Skyrim.

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