OH MY GOD DUDE YOU ARE A LIFESAVER. MY UNI GAVE ME THIS MODEL AND ASKED ME TO ANIMATE A LIP SYNC AND I HAD NO IDEA HOW TO ANIMATE THE FACE BECAUSE THEY DIDNT TOLD ME AND IS THAT CLASS TYPE WHERE THEY ONLY GIVE YOU THE TOPIC AND YOU JUST KINDA FIGURE IT OUT AND I WAS THINKING MY FILE WAS BROKEN. NOW I CAN ACTUALLY DO THE ASSIGNMENT, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
dunno if you guys gives a damn but if you are stoned like me during the covid times then you can watch all of the latest movies on instaflixxer. Been binge watching with my girlfriend during the lockdown =)
Hey, I really appreciate this video. From what I can see about MG picker through some playing around is that it will not work unless you reference the rig as you instructed. I thought that it would be important to mention to people in case they didn't follow your directions. IT works perfectly well the Reference though. Thanks again this was really useful. MGpicker is a much better setup than the workarounds I was working with on the Mery Rig. I do however add in a camera that is parented transforms locked to the Head controller curve that ends up always having the face in view no matter the pose. it really helps with facial animation. Not sure why it isn't added to rigs more. Once you get the facial poses down that way you can always cheat them to be more readable to the shot Camera.
Well, technically, you can still make MGPicker work if you don't do exactly as I mentioned but it is a MUCH bigger PITA. Rigging a shot cam to the face is a good idea for centering in the facial pose but always check from your other angles too, to be sure you are getting what you want.
@@PhilFXPhoenix Most definitely on checking the other angles for your face work. Thanks for the reply. Good to know about MG picker having a PITA workaround but If you can do it the easier faster way I say go with that. Currently, I'm working on modding the Mery Rig for Mocap work myself but I still see a lot of use in this right here. Especially during the Cleanup phase of animating Mocap work.
@@PhilFXPhoenix another added bonus I've found with referencing rigs. If you decide to modify the rig it carries over. Yea the picker may not reflect the added or subtracted controls but it will be present in the scenes referencing the modified character. This is great because there are some additions from a SkillShare class on using motion capture that requires adding some things to influence the current rig you are using. But it still allows the rig to function normally. I'm really liking this referencing.
Hey nice tutorial the explanation is very clear but i got a little bit problem with the MGPicker; i named all the file Mery but the MGPicker still don't connect with the rig, how can i fix this?
Say I have a Question, when I tried to download this rig, It would not Pop up or appear in my downloads? I have tried multiple times, but it won't download. Any idea Why?
I've not tried to do an actual render with Mery but my guess is that the materials on Mery are standard Maya materials such as Lambert, Blinn, Phong, etc. Arnold does NOT render the standard Maya materials correctly. (Go figure right?). If you select the geometry on the eyes check and see what type of material is being used. If you change that material to Arnold standard surface and then adjust the material color and properties to match the previous settings I suspect that should fix your eye problem.
I can't for the life of me find the jaw controller for this rig, I watched several videos regarding this rig but no one mentions the missing jaw controller. can someone please help me.
Great tutorial, thank you for making it! Unfortunately I cannot get MG Picker to work, the rig does not respond to whatever I click in the picker. The only difference I've noticed is that, in my outliner, the referenced Mery rig isn't called "Mery:Mery_grp", instead, mine is called "model:Mery_grp". Same with the last two items in the list: Mery:Mery_rig:asset" is called "model:Mery_rig_asset", and "MeryRN" is "modelRN". I have followed your instructions closely, and made sure that "Use Namespaces" is checked when referencing the rig. Any idea what I might be doing wrong? Thanks!
Thx for tutorial! I was wondering how do you scale Mery to be smaller on the grid so that she'll match the size of the set and other characters. Thx so much!!!!
for anyone who names it correctly and still has a problem with the picker not selecting, it could be what I did which was name the rig 'Mery.mb'. The '.mb' was messing it up and of course is automatic anyway.
I install mg picker but after some time when I m switch off my laptop and again I open Maya he is not showing mg picker and again i have to re install it what should do
Well....I've not used MGPicker in a bit and since the last time I've upgraded my Mac to the latest version of Catalina as well as uninstalling and then reinstalling Maya. Turns out that the latest version of Catalina BROKE MGPicker so I can no longer install MGPicker until they fix it. Looking at the MGPicker website, the last time they touched the code was Feb of 2020 so given that was a year ago I don't think they plan on doing anything. I'd love to help but my only Maya PC is a Mac and I'm now totally hosed. I'm really sorry.
Hi, thanks for the good tutorial!! :) When you open the MG-PickerStudio window and move the icon, is there any other reason why this value does not apply to the character? I'm sorry if I bothered you with a basic question.
Thank you!! this is very helpful, but I think I missed something because even though the picker has been set up, it doesn't seem to connect with the rig because when I tested the picker, it didn't affect the rig at all. I tried to open the eyes with the picker but the eyes didn't move and etc. Any idea on what I've missed here? Thank you :)
Not exactly sure what you are asking. If you are asking can you scale a rig the answer is no. Rigs are made to scale with the character. If you want to change the size of a character then if the rig is make correctly, you should be able to grab the top level control and use the scale transform. This will make the entire character scale in size up/down to your liking.
@@pawanbisht2604 Merry was made a long time ago before the Arnold Render engine was the standard rendering tool. Merry's materials are standard Maya materials like lambert, phong and blinn. Surprisingly, Arnold does not render these correctly. If you use the Maya Software or Hardware render they will come out correctly but if you use Arnold they will not. If you are using Arnold you have to go into the outliner, find the objects for the surface materials on the eyes and change them to Arnold materials with the proper colors. Hope that fixes your issue.
@@ervansolihin Select all controller in box, go to attribute setting, select every values then right click and choose the option unlock. it start positioning. but It can't scaled..
And if somebody else get some weird knee-update problem with IK-legs, I got that fixed by changing "Evaluation mode" paraller to DG in Animation preferences. Thanks to somebody for tip in Reddit.... www.reddit.com/r/Maya/comments/53n48s/ik_legs_doesnt_update_properly/
OH MY GOD DUDE YOU ARE A LIFESAVER. MY UNI GAVE ME THIS MODEL AND ASKED ME TO ANIMATE A LIP SYNC AND I HAD NO IDEA HOW TO ANIMATE THE FACE BECAUSE THEY DIDNT TOLD ME AND IS THAT CLASS TYPE WHERE THEY ONLY GIVE YOU THE TOPIC AND YOU JUST KINDA FIGURE IT OUT AND I WAS THINKING MY FILE WAS BROKEN.
NOW I CAN ACTUALLY DO THE ASSIGNMENT, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
Amazing tutorial!! I was completely stumped. I can testify this tutorial still works perfectly in 2022! thanks so much
You have no idea how helpful this tutorial was to me, so slowed paced for beginners like me or someone who's never used a picker, Thank you so much!
dunno if you guys gives a damn but if you are stoned like me during the covid times then you can watch all of the latest movies on instaflixxer. Been binge watching with my girlfriend during the lockdown =)
@Larry Elisha Yup, have been watching on instaflixxer for since november myself =)
This video was very helpful and still works in 2022
Thanks Very much........ you've made it easy for me to work with the picker
Thanks for the tutorial! Very helpful and well paced.
Hey, I really appreciate this video. From what I can see about MG picker through some playing around is that it will not work unless you reference the rig as you instructed. I thought that it would be important to mention to people in case they didn't follow your directions. IT works perfectly well the Reference though. Thanks again this was really useful. MGpicker is a much better setup than the workarounds I was working with on the Mery Rig. I do however add in a camera that is parented transforms locked to the Head controller curve that ends up always having the face in view no matter the pose. it really helps with facial animation. Not sure why it isn't added to rigs more. Once you get the facial poses down that way you can always cheat them to be more readable to the shot Camera.
Well, technically, you can still make MGPicker work if you don't do exactly as I mentioned but it is a MUCH bigger PITA. Rigging a shot cam to the face is a good idea for centering in the facial pose but always check from your other angles too, to be sure you are getting what you want.
@@PhilFXPhoenix Most definitely on checking the other angles for your face work. Thanks for the reply. Good to know about MG picker having a PITA workaround but If you can do it the easier faster way I say go with that. Currently, I'm working on modding the Mery Rig for Mocap work myself but I still see a lot of use in this right here. Especially during the Cleanup phase of animating Mocap work.
@@PhilFXPhoenix another added bonus I've found with referencing rigs. If you decide to modify the rig it carries over. Yea the picker may not reflect the added or subtracted controls but it will be present in the scenes referencing the modified character. This is great because there are some additions from a SkillShare class on using motion capture that requires adding some things to influence the current rig you are using. But it still allows the rig to function normally. I'm really liking this referencing.
Thank you very much for awesome tutorial! Helped to get on animating with Mery. :)
Thank you for the tutorial! I got it working!
Hey nice tutorial the explanation is very clear but i got a little bit problem with the MGPicker; i named all the file Mery but the MGPicker still don't connect with the rig, how can i fix this?
Thank you! your tutorial is really helping me.
Say I have a Question, when I tried to download this rig, It would not Pop up or appear in my downloads? I have tried multiple times, but it won't download. Any idea Why?
Thanks you so much, it is super helpful.
This is work! Thank you very much)
Thanks for the tutorial! I am currently having a problem with Arnold rendering blank eyes on the rig. Do you know how to fix it?
I've not tried to do an actual render with Mery but my guess is that the materials on Mery are standard Maya materials such as Lambert, Blinn, Phong, etc. Arnold does NOT render the standard Maya materials correctly. (Go figure right?). If you select the geometry on the eyes check and see what type of material is being used. If you change that material to Arnold standard surface and then adjust the material color and properties to match the previous settings I suspect that should fix your eye problem.
I can't for the life of me find the jaw controller for this rig, I watched several videos regarding this rig but no one mentions the missing jaw controller. can someone please help me.
Great tutorial, thank you for making it! Unfortunately I cannot get MG Picker to work, the rig does not respond to whatever I click in the picker. The only difference I've noticed is that, in my outliner, the referenced Mery rig isn't called "Mery:Mery_grp", instead, mine is called "model:Mery_grp". Same with the last two items in the list: Mery:Mery_rig:asset" is called "model:Mery_rig_asset", and "MeryRN" is "modelRN". I have followed your instructions closely, and made sure that "Use Namespaces" is checked when referencing the rig. Any idea what I might be doing wrong? Thanks!
Hello:) Thanks for the information! Very useful!
Thank you VERY much! You saved me!
I follow every step of tutorial but my character rig still not connect with picker. Can anybody help me?
Thx for tutorial! I was wondering how do you scale Mery to be smaller on the grid so that she'll match the size of the set and other characters. Thx so much!!!!
you'd use the global control to scale. but you don't animate the global control :)
for anyone who names it correctly and still has a problem with the picker not selecting, it could be what I did which was name the rig 'Mery.mb'. The '.mb' was messing it up and of course is automatic anyway.
I install mg picker but after some time when I m switch off my laptop and again I open Maya he is not showing mg picker and again i have to re install it what should do
Well....I've not used MGPicker in a bit and since the last time I've upgraded my Mac to the latest version of Catalina as well as uninstalling and then reinstalling Maya. Turns out that the latest version of Catalina BROKE MGPicker so I can no longer install MGPicker until they fix it. Looking at the MGPicker website, the last time they touched the code was Feb of 2020 so given that was a year ago I don't think they plan on doing anything. I'd love to help but my only Maya PC is a Mac and I'm now totally hosed. I'm really sorry.
Thank you, it's super helpful!
Hi, thanks for the good tutorial!! :) When you open the MG-PickerStudio window and move the icon, is there any other reason why this value does not apply to the character? I'm sorry if I bothered you with a basic question.
i will have to look. There are a couple of good questions posted. Tied till later this week and then i will look
@@PhilFXPhoenix Thank you so much! You're very kind.
Thank you!! this is very helpful, but I think I missed something because even though the picker has been set up, it doesn't seem to connect with the rig because when I tested the picker, it didn't affect the rig at all. I tried to open the eyes with the picker but the eyes didn't move and etc. Any idea on what I've missed here? Thank you :)
Check your naming. I cover that in the beginning of the video. If the naming is perfect it will not connect.
rename "Mery_v3.5_for_2015.mb" file to "Mery"
Thank for toturial. I have a issue with ik handle,do you know how can I switch fk with ik in her hand?
LOL... I'll have to look. It's been a while since I have used her. Let me see what I can find out.
Awesome! Thank you so much!
Thank you very much!!!!
How to make size of rigg big or small
Not exactly sure what you are asking. If you are asking can you scale a rig the answer is no. Rigs are made to scale with the character. If you want to change the size of a character then if the rig is make correctly, you should be able to grab the top level control and use the scale transform. This will make the entire character scale in size up/down to your liking.
@@PhilFXPhoenixokh thanks for that... I faced one more problem in mery rigg that when I render it with Arnold her full eyes comes black
@@pawanbisht2604 Merry was made a long time ago before the Arnold Render engine was the standard rendering tool. Merry's materials are standard Maya materials like lambert, phong and blinn. Surprisingly, Arnold does not render these correctly. If you use the Maya Software or Hardware render they will come out correctly but if you use Arnold they will not. If you are using Arnold you have to go into the outliner, find the objects for the surface materials on the eyes and change them to Arnold materials with the proper colors. Hope that fixes your issue.
just zoom out and you ca find the full facial control upwards.
Yea I discovered that after I made the tutorial.
@@PhilFXPhoenix 😁😁🤝
@@samzzverma2411 sir, but how can you move the facial controller? it seems to be locked, thanks
@@ervansolihin Select all controller in box, go to attribute setting, select every values then right click and choose the option unlock.
it start positioning. but It can't scaled..
@@ervansolihin In the outliner, go down to Merry_grp --> Merry_grp_rig --> Merry_grp_cn_facials, press "w" and voila
Thanksss so much!
good shit
[MG-PickerStudio] Object not exist:
error is showing
Hmm... I need a little more than that to help. Have you named your top level correctly as in the video?
Thank You!
thanks for the info
Thank you
I keep clicking on the download box and nothing happens ;_;
I'm not sure I understand. What/Where are you clicking?
If you're talking about the Mery rig, it may be because you are using google Chrome, try using firefox or another browser, I had the same problem
thx a lot!
thank uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
And if somebody else get some weird knee-update problem with IK-legs, I got that fixed by changing "Evaluation mode" paraller to DG in Animation preferences. Thanks to somebody for tip in Reddit.... www.reddit.com/r/Maya/comments/53n48s/ik_legs_doesnt_update_properly/
Is this is free
Yes the Mery Rig is free. Just Google it and you can find the link.
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