Blog Progress Update Week 2

This is the blog progress update for the week of January 21st 2013. This week i covered another tutorial on digital tutors which covered the basics of Maya Rigging (Link). The tutorials this week were in my opinion more interesting and useful than the ones last week mainly due to the fact i have less overall experience with Maya rigging. This tutorial opened by discussing what is rigging and the different forms of rigging from parenting, joints, IK handles up to control objects. I am currently more familiar with joints and parenting right now, and i'm hoping to learn a bit more about IK handles and especially control objects as that seems to be the industry standard as far as rigging goes.

 I myself hadn't really considered parenting to be a type of rigging more like a simple way to deal with keeping an object together, but after looking back at it I suppose it could technically be considered a form of rigging. I also found much like the last tutorial that these videos are of really great quality i just wish there was some more free ones for use or a better student deal for paying for a subscription.

Overall i found these tutorials good for the basics i was just hoping it covered Control objects a bit more but i suppose that it is a bit more of a advanced topic so it doesn't particularly suprise me that it wasn't in this introductory level video.