From the course: Maya: Facial Rigging
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Testing the rig
- [Instructor] Now, hopefully your rig is in place and everything works according to plan. But of course, we always need to test to make sure that is the case. So one of the things I like to do is I like to do some animation or just basically play with the rig to make sure that all of the controls work and that everything moves as intended. Now, you could certainly select a line of dialog and animate the character speaking or something like that, but you can also just go through and do some basic motion of the character. You can animate the head, for example. You can take the eyes and move them around just to make sure that everything is working. You can certainly do some posing of your character. So if you wanted to, you could maybe pose the eyes up here. Maybe rotate the head a little bit. And then maybe even start playing with posing the eyes. And as you can see, as I start to work with this, it is working the way it is…
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