How to Fix The Pixo Jr Lamp Rig

Pixo Jr is a great rig for learning animation, which you can read all about here.  You can also see a series of short tutorials for animation beginners, showing how to make the lamp hop.  But Pixo is an old rig (2006) and works less well in Maya today.  This is because of Maya's implementation of Parallel Evaluation, designed to make rigs perform faster in the Viewport.  Part of the Pixo Jr's rig is not behaving correctly in this new evaluation mode.  The solution is to change Evaluation Mode to DG. To do this, go to Windows > Settings and Preferences and then in the Settings > Animation category, change the drop down menu for Evaluation Mode from "Parallel" to the older mode "DG".

Pixo Jr Lamp

Pixo Jr

To see more about using Pixo Jr for learning animation in Maya, follow the links below:

• Pixo Jr - a great rig for learning animation - read all about Pixo here
• Watch a series of short tutorials for animation beginners, showing how to make the lamp hop
• Pixo Jr Animation with Lisa Springett  

HighEnd3D.com

Editor's Note: At the time of writing, link to Pixo Jr at highend3d.com is broken, as the website is down. If you need a copy of the lamp rig while the website gets fixed, email me at alex@animationapprentice.org

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