Introducing Maya® 2011

Application: Rigging the Locomotive

Let’s get back to our locomotive. In the previous chapter, you made sure the hierarchy and pivot placements were proper. In this exercise, you can use your own locomotive scene or the locomotive_anim_v1.mb file from the previous chapter. You can also use a fancy version of the locomotive, called fancy_locomotive_anim_v1.mb; it’s set up similarly to locomotive_anim_v1.mb for the exercise. This scene is shown in Figure 9-63.

Familiarize yourself with the scene file first. To give yourself more modeling practice, you can use this scene file to remodel your own fancy locomotive if you like. All the parts of this ...