Mae (ProRigs) - (paid) Maya Animation Rig - Review

[Music] welcome back to another rig review and today I'm going to take a look at May from Pro rigs which you can find here that is the pro rig site I'm on the character side all characters you can see all of them here this is the couples version so we look at her and I am using the compatible 2224 version and this is release 14 and I'm opening this in Maya 2022 too and of course I'll put that on the animation site where I do walkthroughs of a bunch of rigs feel free to let me know if you have a rig that you want me to go through this goes all the way down there are a lot of them organized on the left and so on anyway you can check it out let's get to the rig that is the rig in its Glory when you open this up here sometimes you're going to have controllers that are visible yes or no not in this case you have curves here sometimes you have surfaces you can see this here and for some R sometimes you have locators that do extra work not in this case so I'm going to leave that on there's nothing in the layers here this is all that you can see let's start with the main controller this is the builds this is version one7 in this case and that's it there's no scale this is on this controller so in this one you have global scale this is through a channel not scaling like this and you have visibility for all of this you can see this can be on on and off and this can be very customized which is cool and you got the gimbal on off you can see that here body polish I'm going to leave that on just for now face polish on off let's go to the face so you can see it here is face polish turn this all on clothing extra yes for sure we leave that on as well then visibility you got torso yeah or nay head and neck going to say yay or nay again hair yes or no and then legs yes or no as you go down here complexity of the geometry you'll see this will change here you just go all the way to two I'm going to leave this to one and then reference here you can see this uh here normal template reference if you go back to normal I can actually select the geometry here and do nothing but you can select it if you need to change textures or do whatever you want to do with it I'm going to go back to reference that way I don't accidentally s anything and as always if you have multiple inner controllers or main controllers I don't know why I do this every time it makes me laugh cuz you can go here and then you can make it Superman with different piver points and you can fly which I don't know do I ever see character IEM like that I don't know but it's there just in case you have to change pivot Points for whatever reason I don't know let's go here you got this controller and if you go on on the right here you got all your Shader options right so you got original uh up here you have custom and when you go to custom you can change all of that obviously let's go all the way back that is the original here and you got this for uh skin hair shirt uh secondary shirt pants let's go down here clumsily there you go pants what do we have here shoes teeth tongue gums eyes Iris pupil accessory one and highlight Shader that is a bunch I love it also let me just go here so if you are here where is this there you go eyes you know as it was saying highlight what's the Highlight you got a highlight here so just in case anybody's wondering what are you talking about it's eye highlights which not every rig has but this rig does all right let's go bottom to top as always don't know why but I started like this I will continue this is your leg controller like that and then as always I like to point this out some rigs have it some don't so you move the foot knee doesn't move you can either do this with your pull vector or you have a Twist here and you can do it via Channel if that's what you prefer at the same time you have your foot wall foot Vol was I was looking at pull Vector yes or no on off and I was mixing words here foot roll yes or nay goes back as well you got a foot Bank like that which is underused students should use more foot Banks heel pivot like that you got toe pivot like that and then you got your toe spin like this you got a heel spin like that and foot squash which is great not every R has that either then back here you got ik FK leg switching here uh you got World space you got stretchy yna upper lower leg you know all that always kind of the sameish it's good to have volume compensation is great too so if you take this here right it's going to go like that but if you don't want that there you go volume compensation whoops year also Auto stretch y n and uh foot scale where is it there you go foot scale y a and of course if you switch this to clumsily there you go to ik that switches and you can see it's this one all right then let's go down here we got this one and for this you got to rotation order but that's it no scale and you got this one here and that is the foot gimbal here stretching All That Jazz this one is your Bend here this one is your Bend here and this one is your B here obviously it's going to be on all positions don't forget selecting this gives you the knee pin which you want to add the volume compensation here and that's of course on both sides let's go up you have let me do clothing later you're going to have that inner one this is your gimbal so this is your root you can see I arms at this point nothing else on the channels always double check what controls will give you same thing here this is your other obviously you can rotate as well can you translate uh scale no then we have this guy that is going to be your hip like that you can see how much the clothing follows let me double check something if you select this you have controllers you have scale all right all the way down to the bottom part what would be cool so I just dealt with a rig that had this there would be an option says parents control on or off meaning that if you move your hips around it would not actually move the cloth around that would be helpful as well so you don't have to counter animate but let me continue here then you got your spine like that you can also translate of course here's one here there you go that's your spine Bend so you have a couple of these to reshape got same thing here same thing here then we have on the sides here you can see this to move these in and out no scale this is just translate at this point here and my why not since over here right these are all your clothing things here and that's your overall no that's the middle part you're going to select these clumsily today is Clumsy day like that you can put you know collection sets whatever and then you can move everything ooh or not is that other the middle part because it's not part of the chain okay this will be your translate to move that middle part like that then we have here clothing more to move that in and out then this goes all the way up to here checking just here you got volume compensation here you also have breathing it's a nice breathing through here okay that's cool on here uh no options here no options here no options here always double check sometimes even I I miss it that is your neck like that and and then on this you got controls so you have let me turn this on so you can see more neck tense that's cool that is rare on rigs but if you have someone that goes specifically on the certain Mouse shapes it's great to have that I like this a lot again align in terms of world and chest just in case so if I do like that and then I take this and I say chest is going to follow the chest and if you don't want the head to do all this you also have neck right so now it's like that and if I move this forward it follows this guy and so on so these are all your world space switchers these are your bbos again here and here all the way to here you're going to have the same thing here so you got your PIN that's great too then you got your ik arm oh no of course not that's the ik arm that is your sleeve and let's see how far back ooh since you have geometry underneath that's great and you also have this in translate and rotate this is cool because then you can animate this hand [Music] going like no this is just painful painful to watch all right well let's go through controllers there's a Twist here right and then I can take this which also shows you that this is your ik arm setup where if you move this around your wrist stays in the same orientation and if you've watched any of my rig reviews you know how much I'm harping over nonsticky ik arms that only a few rigs have notably the Vixen rig and you I'm going to say this every time just because you have to constantly counter animate if you move this around and you don't move the wrist with it it's going to look like an ik uh Nike arm it's just not a fan in terms of workflow but I would say 99 % of the rigs have it except all the rigs that ilm did not and they was so great anyway the reason why I'm doing all of this going what the hell is he doing I can take this and now thanks to this rig you can go she can pull or push whatever her sleeves back I could have just said it without doing all of this but I think that's cool and that already opens up new avenues in terms of acting and cloth interaction and blah blah blah I think that's really cool anyway that's just me then let's go back to here these are the only options on the controllers always double check you got your ik so you got your twist so if you do this and you there you go twist it like that or like that if you want Auto stretch use pull Vector yeah then you got your finger options so this is going all the way back where you can rotate do all of this here or of course use uh Clumsy again fingers like that that goes all the way you can see this so you got this on all fingers well like that if you want to do just the tips here then if you have this one which not every rig has well first of all it has an ik FK switch as you can see here which all rigs have but then you got your fingers where you can go here in the channels instead of here that's a better view instead of doing it on those controllers not every R has it and it's great for quick blocking or like extra little tweaks if you want to do like a relaxed hand POS I love this by the way the slide like this super helpful scrunch like that right you can see how the fingers go up it's actually really nice I love all that stuff here thumb and they relaxed for quick blocking I think this is so great because often times students have shots where it's kind of like that and it gets kind of I say distracting obviously I can see past it but it's also nice to just put in your relaxed pose like that and then you add that with a little thumb curl whoops curl like that right and then you already inax PST I like this a lot then let's go back here you got your arch for this for cupping here and then Palm like that for the whole thing and then like that and scale it's one of the few things you can scale is that and obviously it's going to be the same thing on the other side now let's get to the head there a lot of options here wait wait shoulders we got your should is here actually let me show you like this let's go to FK and then your FK controller is right there and then you go up and you can see you got alignments world order new world order all that good stuff there and where is it there you go that's for that and you can have allow twist what it doesn't have which I think would still be cool is an autoc clavicle so that if you do move move your arm up and down that it would do it for you automatically and then you can go in there and potentially tweak on top of that why not it could be helpful I like it back here just in case just quickly here right you got the collar here and then we have back here for hair volume you can see in the controls that's that's it you can't scale or anything but definitely helps you in moving things around like that or someone if she's leaning against something you can go in there can you rotate no you kind of need to maybe be able to uh rotate so that you could potentially flatten if she's you know puts her head against the wall or something I don't know that could be interesting then this one this is your upper head so this is going to be your squash and stretch this way with volume compostition right there and then you got the same thing here for the chin this is not for the full lower part here you can see it looks like it will pull the whole thing but it's not that's for the the whole head what am I doing here there you go then let's go here let's go one up here that is your chin can you scale no but you can move things around like that one up is going to be your jaw let's keep that open just a little bit CU then you have your shapes like this you have your shapes here and then you got your detail shapes everywhere that's pretty awesome lot of control here so you got your smile and then you can go into this potentially and then more these are translates ah you got rotates this way so if you want to do on Main controllers like this no like that here you can rotate this like that for M shapes and all that good stuff also here you can roll like that if you want this controller you go here has curl like that for the whole thing but also thickness that's pretty sensitive there there you go that's especially important when you have M and compression shapes don't forget these then back there there you go that is for your tongue and you can see all the different controllers all of that now as I'm bringing this down here and let's bring uh this guy jaw down you can see here the teeth so you're going to have controllers here to move this around and let me check is that the one no or is it yes it is that's for the whole teeth and you're going to have the same thing here so for making things a bit more peeling depending on where you work in the show you want to don't like maybe don't like to see the uh the lower part of the teeth so no that's not it where is it this guy you might want to adjust the teeth visually so it looks more like that bit more graphic and so on so that's why we have it then you got your controller here to pull this down also nostrils also no no tip here scale if you want always check controls not all of them have scale but you can here and you have an overall to bend this which I like a lot sometimes the rigs just kind of stop here and you have to kind of do that for any line of action in the head but this is cool to have that here here here's another one and that moves the lower part of the head all right you got three of these here then cheek here and cheek here don't forget controls there's a puff like that and as you smile right you might bring all those things up a little bit and puffing blah blah blah then you can also push up you have shapes here you can see some of the wrinkles that's cool and of course translit here for your lids and then you go in there and you can start shaping things around you can see there's some limits to it it's not super free form but I like it so you don't break the rig it's almost like there's some dampening to it which is actually nice I like that the feel of not breaking the rig like that and then of course you have this while you do this you can also translate this way to change uh the height of the lid here so can I let me see no which one is this one all right that you translate so if you have an eye go out like this you could move it like that so that the pupil is you know pushing it up this way so you don't have stuff cut like that like the high point is here even though the eyeball is over there anyway you can do that let just go back here and you have here texture uh movement here for these sorry it's messy there you go out like that Ty and then you have length and bend and then since I was there let me touch this here translates and also lits follow I you can turn that on off pupils you got dilation and all that in here as well up and down like that squash and stretch just in case undo too much there you go highlights right you can change that which is cool and also placement if it follows the eye or not that's also cool why not and also you can turn it off if you want then and you got your bigger one this is not for the eye controller so let's move this guy out this one is going to move the whole thing over you canot scale through that but here is an eye scale in the controllers here or in the channels I say controls in the channels then you got your squint like that skew like that scale effect brow and squash and stretch and of course all the rotational and transation uh transition stuff that's cool lots of options here then we're getting into eyebrows right you can obviously do all of this don't forget there's one here under the hair textures head lights there you go to do all of that now looking into the channels the other the options so we have that obviously on both sides but before I get to well might as well do it here's your hair you can translate you can rotate and you can actually scale and you can bring this up so the whole thing goes more up like that now since we're here you you got your eyes so this you can see how the lids follow a little bit you can turn that on or off if you want you could scale I never really do it like that I usually use this to change any type of angles that you need to have now looking at this one you have a line head so if I take the head the eyes go with it but I usually work in world so that if I move the head it keeps looking where I'm supposed to look I kind of prefer that CU otherwise sometimes you you have animation it starts to feel kind of spaced out and robotic because the eyes are just kind of following it's bit more like a doll a bit a bit uh life Less in a way again that's all the hair stuff we have a controller here that is your head gimbal so you can move that with that controller like I said this is the hair and that is that I don't think I missed anything lots of controls big fan of the cloth control I think that's great it would be cool I mean is this separate geometry since we already I'm just being greedy now but since we have this which I love I think that's great would be cool to have these kind of controls here as well just in case she wants to grab this and pull it up a little bit maybe you know she's cold and she wants to pull up and stretch this a little bit and then manually you like oh I'm cold I want to move that over like more control over cloth is awesome I know it's a pain to do you can see here what if you move it over you get intersections and all of that stuff I know it's not easy try to maybe do that and so on you're going to have to adjust things depending on the angle I guess um so the more controls on cloth the better again this could slow down the rig I'm the rigger so this is like some ignorance I would like this and everybody goes yeah but if you do that it breaks this this and this I know that but that's it very cool very appeal in the whole Suite of um Pro rigs are very appeeling and that is that thanks for watching if you're still watching this is what like 20 minutes something right uh I will continue I'm going to cover every rig for the pro rigs I just created a playlist to cover or to put in in group all the pro rigs Rigs and that's that don't want to miss the next one feel free to subscribe you can also like if you want for the algorithm and that is that thanks for watching and I'll see you in my next clip