| Character animation with Maya offers a rich tablet of possibilities and immense control. In this chapter, you explored some standard techniques of character animation, including the following: Joint creation Building linked skeleton joints IK setup Specifying which parts of a skeleton behave with Inverse Kinematics Rigid binding Attaching a skin to a skeleton with a rigid bind Applying flexors Smoothing the joints of a rigid bind by applying a flexor Creating character animation Adding animation keys to your skeleton to make your character move Using the Graph Editor Refining your character animation by looking at the graph of the skeleton's controllers Using Trax Building more complex animation from clips of simple animation Using Blend Shapes Making surfaces deform into another shape by using Blend Shape deformers
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