The yearly update always introduces new feature to make usage easy. Maya is all in one 3D design software. From designing of complex models to detailed texturing then to rigging and animation, Maya is a richly packaged software to satisfy its users. But it quite easy for people already familiar with other modeling and animation software to use Maya. I always advice beginners not to rush it and take their time to better understand it. What Maya offers is far greater than the difficulties faced while learning it. With patience and determination you can push through the steep learning curve and get a good mastery of Maya. I use it to model characters for Unity 3D game engine.

The stored pose will be applied to the rig controllers referenced in the pose file.Maya has been my very good friend since my school days.

Click Load pose and select which pose file you wish to load.

Click Save pose and choose which path you want to save the pose file to.

Select the rig controllers you wish to save the attributes from.To be able to generate facial animations you need to create 10 different mouth poses based on the Preston Blair phoneme series. (The length of the audio clip will affect how long it takes to process) Click Generate animation and wait until the process is done.Select a soundclip with a voice-line and a textfile where the voice-line is written down in english.Load the folder where the pose files are saved and assign a unique pose to each phonomes in the dropdown boxes.Use the Save pose function to create 10 separate facial poses (one for each phonome).I recommend using the free and open-source software Audacity: You may need to resample your sound file to meet the requirements. Input sound file only have support for 16 kHz, single channel.Maya 2017+ and Windows is required to run this tool.This tool only have support for English input sound and text files.Download and place this file inside your montreal-forced-aligner folder: Librispeech English pronunciations by Daniel Povey/OpenSLR (Public Domain).

Download and move the textgrid folder to your Maya scripts folder: Unzip this folder in your Maya scripts folder: Montreal Forced Aligner version 1.0.1 Win64, by Michael McAuliffe/Montreal Corpus Tools (MIT/Apache). To be able to run this tool you need to download the dependencies which are required to run this tool (Or move the INSTALLER.bat to your Maya scripts folder and run it).

Maya autodesk animation