Want to become an animator? If you already have Autodesk Maya, jump right in! In this series, you’ll learn how to animate the different elements of a head rig.

Ready to add the jaw joints to your head rig? In this Autodesk Maya lesson on rigging, you'll learn the correct way to create jaw joints - and how not to do it.

Want to add some movement to your head? In this rigging lesson, you'll learn how to set up the head joints on your skeleton, starting with the root joint.

Now it's time to add the facial controllers to your rig. Using NURBS Primitives, we'll create the head, chest, neck and jaw controls and freeze transform them.

What are constraints? These connect joints to controllers. In this Maya lesson, we'll use parent and orient constraints to control the translation and rotation.

You've created a bunch of joints in your head rig, but leaving them as "joint 1" and "joint 2" is not a good practice. Let's rename them using the outliner.

In this Maya lesson, you'll learn how to parent controllers so your rig moves naturally. For example, when you move the neck, you'll want the head to move, too.

In this Maya lesson from Animation Methods, learn how to apply your model to its joints, adjust deformations, and begin to explore weight painting.

Getting the movement of your neck to appear realistic is no easy task. In this Maya animation lesson, learn how to fine-tune head and neck weighting.