In this video we walk through the retargeting workflow for Maya in 2025!
Maya continues to be the absolute best program for motion capture retargeting. It has a very clean retargeting and bone mapping system, it can create IK control rigs AUTOMATICALLY after you've defined a character's skeleton, and foot sliding simply does not happen in Maya. All of these things make it a formidable program to hand motion capture - even if it can be a little intimidating at first.
If you want to know more about zero-ing out your animation layers, check out our older Maya tutorial which covers it in more detail. https://youtu.be/sfNlMUMdVyw?si=2szKqB38ZltOSS1D
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0:00 - Intro
0:55 - Maya is RELIABLE
1:35 - NO FOOT SLIDING in Maya
3:35 - Recording and Exporting our Mocap
4:45 - Import our Character and Mocap
5:30 - ***HUGELY IMPORTANT Namespaces Step***
6:26 - Put Character into T-Pose
7:18 - Retargeting Process
14:00 - Bake / Add to IK Control Rig
15:25 - Butterworth Smoothing
16:50 - Mocap Editing and Animation Layers
21:05 - Foot Sliding Example - Why is Maya SO AWESOME??
