Video – Character Setup of Robot in Maya 2010 (4)

This is one of the most important joint making lessons in this 3d animation and modeling series in this 3d modeling and animation series of robot 3d modeling and 3d animation making in 3d modeling animation software Autodesk Maya. 3d modeling and animation software application Maya is the easiest 3d computer graphics application this provides you all types of tools and commands you may need for quick and easy 3d modeling, 3d animation and the best rendering is Maya render farm. Here in this 3d modeling and animation lesson you are going to learn about one of the most interesting tools of the 3d modeling that is mirror tool this tool create copy of the one object at position you determine for the object. Mirroring Joint in 3d modeling and animation is widely used technique you just have to make joint chain of the one side, one leg or one arm and other arm you can model with mirror joint technique in 3d modeling and animation software application of 3d computer graphics Autodesk Maya, a software of 3d computer graphics for 3d modeling and animation and rendering which is very famous for 3d film making and game designing and other visualization media.
Steps:
Select the joints’ chain you want to mirror.
In the skeleton menu click on the mirror joint option box and then change the orientation to YZ and the click on the mirror option.
Now open the outliner and then click on this new joint chain and then name these joint with right leg joints reference.
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