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Presented during SIGGRAPH 2004

Learn how to Òtrick-outÓ your biped! Pia Maffei, of Applied Ideas, demonstrates how to customize Biped to create custom character rigs. Use Null Helper objects with 3ds max Animation Constraints to work with Biped bones and use the Motion Mixer to work with animation tracks.

Pia brings you through how to properly plan your rig, good rigging guidelines, creating leg rigs and IK chains in the foot. She continues by creating a spine rig, the 6 arm approach, and finishes with demonstrating how to work with proxy geometry.