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Fundamentals of Rigging

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Release date:2018, March

Author:Chris Kuhn, Kent Trammell

Skill level:Beginner

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

What is Rigging?
Rigging is the art of preparing something for movement. What the skeleton and muscles are to the human body or the engine and wheels are to a car, so rigging is to 3D graphics. Therefore it’s an extremely important part of the animation pipeline. And like a car engine and a human skeleton, rigging is a very technical skillset that can get complex. But this course is designed to ease you into the subject, so we’re just focusing on the fundamentals. And there’s 2 methods of rigging with Blender that we’re going to cover:

Mechanical Rigging
Mechanical rigging focuses on object-to-object relationships and constraints, similar to machinery in a car engine or other mechanizations. Chris Kuhn is one of the best mechanical riggers in the Blender community and he’s your instructor for this first chapter. NOTE: Chris’ advanced helicopter rig is available on Blendswap.

Character Rigging
Character Rigging, as you can imagine, is focused on characters. This is very much the digital equivalent of skeletons moving a body, whether human or creature. It centers around a unique object type in Blender, called an armature. This armature is primarily used to deform a model organically. NOTE: An advanced Baker Rig is available to download as a CG Cookie Resource.

Table of Contents

Mechanical Rigging
Object Origin Points 5 min
Parenting & Inherited Properties 4 min
Empty Objects 5 min
Object Constraints: Limit & Copy 6 min
Object Constraints: Tracking 5 min
Object Constraints: Transformation 6 min
Rig Hierarchies 6 min
Fundamentals of Rigging: Mechanical Rigging Quiz 4 xp

Character Rigging
Intro to Character Rigging 6 min
Armature Properties 12 min
Armature Edit Mode 17 min
Parenting Mesh to Armature 5 min
Weight Painting 13 min
Rigging & the Modifier Stack 10 min
Bone Constraints: Inverse Kinematics (IK) 12 min
Custom Control Shapes 10 min
Rigify Overview 8 min
Fundamentals of Rigging: Character Rigging Quiz 4 xp

Exercise: Rigging a Dog
Rigging a Dog · 8 xp

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