by Nash Lin | Jan 27, 2015 | Resources
A good humanoid rig will helps to speed up character animation process because if they are easy to use, animation process will be less time consuming. Norman rig for character animation is one of the popular rig among many new animators who are starting to create acting animation. I've used this rig to create a walk cycle in Maya. There are many other rigs available for download but I choose Norman rig because of its IK/FK matching pose tool, which I'll share later in this post. Download Norman rig for free Norman rig is now a free rig shared by Academy of Art University which can be downloaded here and is used for maya user. You can use this rig immediately once you downloaded it. However, it will be useful to do a complete installation that provides a IK/FK pose matching function, which is definitely a tool we want to make use of. If you are a maya user, you should know by now that the software itself is complex and not easy to use if you have never touch that tool. That is why I've included an installation video guide along with this post to help animators out there, who is getting this rig for the first time round. Rig Installation My initial attempt to install the rig took about 10mins because I wasn't familiar with the other aspects of maya such as scripts and icons, especially the folder location. After some exploration, I've simplified the process into 6 simple steps for quick installation: 1. Copy all the 3 Mel scripts that comes with the rig into your maya...
Nash is a self taught animator, a fanatic gamer and a digital media coach. He has created many types of 2D and 3D animation. You will get to learn effective animation skills and tips with Nash. 
