Introduction

The Tyrant Dragon Maya Rig.

Model, Sculpting, Textures, Rigging, Shaders & Lighting setup by Truong.

The product does NOT include the animation.

Video demo

The animation done by Dileep Bhargav L: https://youtu.be/bys_EzcvRAQ

The product doesn't include the animation, the animator:

dileepbhargav.l@gmail.com

Turntable render: https://youtu.be/uLDE37ksOKg

Fin setup: https://youtu.be/l_q-PfQ84eA

The picker: https://youtu.be/oNLNk88Jxhg

The Rig Q&A and Picker explained: google doc

Display color on viewport & rendering: https://youtu.be/0BN876Pe_wk

Remember to open the model Shape tab: Arnold > Subdivision > Type: catclark; Iterations: 3. For displacement to work, I forgot to mention that in the video.

Use Maya Rig to pose the Zbrush sculpt: https://youtu.be/QInsC96CyLE

Technical Information

Software: Maya 2022 (or higher)

Rigged using Advanced Skeleton.

Verts: 94,471

Faces: 79,659

Tris: 169,339

Files includes:

Maya rig, Look dev file (Maya, with Arnold)

Textures: color, normal, displacement, roughness

FBX

Color variations, Substance painter & Zbrush files are only available at Commercial Licenses

Remember to File > Set Project, so all the textures can be loaded automatically.

Issues with the rig?

Problem solving blog: https://truongcgartist.wordpress.com/

If you have any other rig issues or further questions, feel free to ask me at my facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/truongcgartist

or email me at cvbtruong@gmail.com or truongcgartist@gmail.com

Please notice, this is a digital product, what you see is what you get in MAYA.

Game engine support and file formats support is available but not compulsory from the creator.

There is no refund policy available after purchase.

Credit

In the early stage of the rig:

Jonathan Symmonds - Supervisor (take a look at his dragon course at Sophoria Academy)

David Waldhaus - UV, Texturing, Shading & Lighting

Philipp Willer - animation & providing rig feedback

Øyvind Nøstdal - Advanced Skeleton support

Philipp Winterstein - follicle script & additional rigging support

Josh Sobel - additional rigging support

Ben Wotton - additional rendering

In the later stage of the rig (I redid the model, sculpting, uv, texturing & rigging):

Phung Nhat Huy - thank you for helping me with the fin setup

Dileep Bhargav L - rig feedback & animation test

David Torres - rig feedback

Rakesh Patil - rig feedback

Ramzan Mulani - animation test

Happy animating!

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Dragon, Maya

https://truongcgartist.gumroad.com/l/tyrantdragon