Exploring Human Muscles Setup in Maya

By the end of the tutorial, you will know more about realistic deformation setups based on a film production workflow

Learn how to create a deformation setup for a humanoid character using muscles from Maya toolset

Software required Maya 2016

Specials thanks goes out to Jan Jinda for the werewolf model and Pavel Hrubos for the animation clips

We will also use a custom python script function, written for this tutorial, to streamline the setup

We'll look at converting human anatomy to a 3d deformation rig, making muscle objects and attaching them to an animation skeleton, and finishing with how to make these muscles deform the character's geometry