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Hence, manishtoons.com is driving more traffic now a days, I thought to shift my website hosting blogger to wordpress.

Wordpress is offering more customizable and professional look and workspace, well arranged folder structures, with hundreds and thousands of plug ins. Who purchased "Create Biped - Auto Rig For Maya" from this website or Creative Crash, they will have Members Area for there daily/weekly/monthly updates. It makes lot easier and secure to get updates from now.

You will be redirect to manishtoons.com inLets meet on wordpress then !!

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latest, maya, News

Enhanced Skinning Workflow — Maya 2011 New Features

Hey guys,

Autodesk announced Maya 2011 a month ago, and the new features inside are just awesome !!

visit AREA now !!! and get rid of it :)

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customize, Downloads, GUI, maya, MEL

Get customized script editor, which spit-out variables's / string's value

This is really small and handy script for MEL programmers and developers,
Thanks to Haluk Cetiner for source code.This script is extension of ktPrintSelected.mel
it creates a new button in Maya's script editor right after go to line button, which spit-outs selected string or varaible's value.

mg_printSelectedValue.zip

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Downloads, MEL, poseSuite

Pose suite - Pose Manager For Maya

Pose suite - Pose Manager For Maya - V 1.2.zip

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Downloads, MEL, Techniques

Pick Walk For Maya

Hi there,

At this moment I am talking about how selections are made and how to be made. There are lots of ways to select the selections like character GUI, setting up trigger interface to camera (Ref : Tiny rig) etc etc..

There is one more method to do this called "Pick Walk" it navigates to other object based up on current selection. Means, next selection is based upon current selection. (you can watch the video right after this post)

I wrote a small script for selecting object(s) or controllers by pick walk, just how we do for selecting hierarchy by pressing Up arrow key, same way it works.

It is bit tricky to understand and setup it first time, but once you understand how it works and how to walk with it, it makes life lot easier specially for animators.

Here is a video demonstrating how to work with pickWalk and how pickWalk works.

mg_pickWalk.mel

cheers !

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Downloads, poseSuite

Pose Suite Is Now Available

Now, Pose Suite is available for download.

Download the file , do the most of it !

Feel free mail me if you got any bugs.

Pose suite - Pose Manager For Maya - V 1.0.zip

Pose suite - Pose Manager For Maya - V 1.2.zip (update)

enjoy !
Manish.

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maya, ribbon spine, Techniques

Awsome Spine Rig

Hey,

As we all know there are couple of techniques for building advance twisting torso . One is by Jason Schleifer which became a very standard and well known technique in the industry and second is Arron Holly's Ribbon Spline.

As we know there is always an issue when we rotates spine about 180 degree, which can be avoided by using, yes you are right thats "Ribbon". Very handy and great technique.

Recently I saw a tutorial written by Mat Berglund about creating no flip spine with the help of ik handles, pretty straight forward and time saving. It is a blend of quite a bit of ribbon and number of IK handles. Very useful technique.

Rad the tutorial.