Dynamic Bones, Skinning & Animation Tool Development
This 12-week Advanced Maya Programming course, taught by Tenghao Wang, focuses on practical tool development for game character animation and rigging pipelines. Built around Python, the Maya API, and PySide2, the course progresses from development environment setup to building complete Maya tools and plugins. Students will complete three production-oriented projects: a Pose Library, a Skin Weight Tool, and a Dynamic Bone System. The course is designed to develop practical programming and tool-development skills for game rigging, animation, and technical art. ✅ Who This Course Is For Technical Artists (TAs) / Game Riggers / Character Animators: Those with basic Maya skills who want to automate repetitive tasks through scripting, build tools for character pipelines, and improve production efficiency. CG and 3D Artists: Those familiar with Maya but with little or no Python experience who want to get started with Maya tool and plugin development and learn to work with the Maya API and custom nodes. Aspiring Game Technical Artists: Students who want to build complete tool-development projects for their portfolios and demonstrate pipeline development skills in interviews. Indie Developers and Small Studio Teams: Those who need to develop custom tools for character pose management, batch skin-weight processing, and dynamic bones for secondary motion to streamline character production workflows. ❗ Not suitable for: Complete beginners who are unfamiliar with Maya rigging and animation concepts and have no prior experience with 3D software.
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