Rigging Books

by user8 posted 05-11-2017 | 5 comments

Hey all,

I have come across books like Rig it Right! as well as The Art of Rigging book series. In my opinion, I think that they are aging a bit now... Curious to know if anyone knows of any other good rigging books?

by user100 posted 07-01-2018

Animation Methods - Rigging Made Easy! by David Rodriguez (He also got some Youtube videos)
Maya Techniques - Hyper-Realistic Creature Creation by Eric Miller and others (very old, but maybe useful)

by user113 posted 04-01-2018

Umm..

Visualizing Quaternions
Numerical Recipes
Python Cookbook
Python Pocket Reference
Maya & Python for Game Developer
Any linear algebra book
An Actor Prepares
The Animators Survival Kit
The illusion of Life, Disney
Timing for Animation
Stop Staring

Any of the Edward Muybridge books studying motion.

by user47 posted 08-11-2017

There is an ibook "the art of moving points" by Brian Tindall. It comes with a bunch of videos with further explanations. You can find a few examples here:

http://hippydrome.com/iBookExmpls.html

https://vimeo.com/hippydrome

It also covers modelling and is not application specific.

Not really rigging books, but I always have those on my desk and look things up in them more frequently than in any rigging book I read so far.

"3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development" - Ian Parberry
"Animal Anatomy for Artists" - Eliot Goldfinger
"Practical Maya Programming with Python" - Robert Galanakis
"Classic Human Anatomy" - Valerie Winslow

by user7 posted 07-11-2017

Yeah, book are a little old but they are usual better advice on rigging than most videos you can find about rigging. Here are some book I ve stumbled upon, "Animator friendly rigging (Jason-Schleifer_2006)" and "Quadruped Animation Friendly Rigging (Javier-Solsona_2007)" these two are really good. A bit old but really good?

by user3 posted 07-11-2017

I've seen some old videos by Jason Schleifer and I thought they were really nice, so I'd be interested in having a look at that book.