Maya Retargeting Workflow I The Ultimate Guide to Retargeting

Learn how to retarget animations in Maya like a pro with these expert tips and tricks. In this video, our Creative Director Sam covers the ultimate workflow for retargeting in Maya, from start to finish. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced animator, these techniques will help you take your skills to the next level.

0:00 - Intro
1:26 - Export Rokoko Studio Mocap
3:38 - Find Character, Rig on Mixamo
5:10 - "Characterize" our Character Skeleton
12:30 - Import Mocap
14:05 - Fix Namepace Issue
15:12 - Retarget Mocap
16:00 - Bake to Control Rig
17:25 - Mocap Editing
23:40 - Butterworth Filter Perfection

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[Sinbad]

I'm new to both Maya and Rokoko, and it felt very easy to do Mocap and cleaning with those tools. Thanks for the tutorial.

[Gimbapboy]

Excellent video. Thank you so much! One suggestion, when you run into issues like you did with the middle fingers when retargeting to HIK its important to not speed through how you solved issues like that. Walk us through that stuff. Those are the gems that your viewer need to see.

[nostalgic--]

Thankyou so much.. you have no idea how much you made my life easier

[charlesrozen]

You just saved my project. This will save me a lot of time :)

[EmaJinaTionGames]

Thank you for this complete guide is really useful.
Have a nice day!

[momerathsx]

My tutyors really suggested a much more over-complicated workflow than this- thank you so much

[SamuelThomson-km]

Thanks, this is genuinely a really great tutorial.

[AndresWalsh]

Great tutorial. What do you do after the video ends? Do you bake all those animation clips down to one layer? Then do you throw it on the Time Editor as a clip?

[degueurcejulie]

Hello, thanks a lot for your video ! It's an amazing ressource to learn.

[stevec.]

Thanks so much for this tutorial. It was super helpful!

[juanandresmunoz]

Why "The hips don´t seem to be facing the positive direction of the axis"? In yellow message

[sivasankar]

Really Great video to learn, how to mocap data edit into the maya m thanks Bro.

[ChayanVinayak]

Great tutorial! What's your approach when you have to constraint HIK effectors to something in the scene for example if a character is holding a trumpet where both the hands are constraint to the trumpet (probably the trumpet is constraint to head)?

[someonespecial]

This really needs more explanation for the "bake to control rig" option

[chrisjhart]

I followed along, but found you don't need to zero out certain points for some reason? Great tutorial, took me a while but got there thanks!

[griffinkern]

Question for you. Is it possible to retarget the fbx to a character rig that doesn't have joints, but has the rig set up already?

[yarosyari]

what to do with reference node, it doesn't retarget to root..? :(

[lilyshorrock]

Hi! I’ve been using this workflow for a long time and it works incredibly!!!
Right now, I’ve been able to re-rig with the advanced Skeleton for both face and body rig. Then put it into mixamo for a t pose and movements.
I’m struggle to combine FBX movements in Maya and retarget there. I’m able to bake the animation, but I struggle to bake multiple animations in the time editor. Say I want to combine a run with a jump, but what I need are two different mixamo FVX movements. I’m just on the CUSP of perfecting the workflow. But I’m just running into some issues! If there are any ideas you recommend to combine mixamo FBX movement please please please let me know! This video was so helpful and you’ve gained a new ROKOKO Stan.

[SignatureAesthetic]

I have used the Maya quick rig tool to rig my character as I get an unknown error when I try to use mixamo with my model. However, I can’t get this method to work😅

[juanandresmunoz]

Could you make a version for use in the Wonder Dynamics mocap? Thank you very much for the video!