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Table of Contents Rivet Rig: Pinning Objects to a Deforming Surface In Blender rigging, you may sometimes need to pin an object to the surface of another deforming object in your rigging setup. This is often referred to as a “rivet rig” and can be a useful technique when you want an object to move […]
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Table of Contents Blender 4.1 Rigging and Animation Blender 4.1 has brought some exciting updates to rigging and animation. In this blog, we will dive deep into the new capabilities and improvements that have been introduced in the latest version of Blender. From nested bone collections to enhanced bake action options, there’s a lot to
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Table of Contents Blender 4 Updates in Rigging & Animation: Introduction Blender 4.0 has introduced a range of new tools and updates that are designed to enhance the rigging and animation features of the software. From bone collections to bone colors, the changes in Blender 4 aim to streamline the rigging and animation process, making
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Table of Contents Introduction AccuRig is a stand-alone software designed for easy rigging (auto-rigging) of humanoid characters. It is part of the Actacore family of products and is completely free to use. AccuRig offers a user-friendly interface and seamless integration with popular animation software like Blender, Maya, and game engines. In this blog, we will
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Table of Contents Introduction to AI Motion Capture with QuickMagic “AI Motion Capture” technology has revolutionized the way artists bring their creations to life. Quick Magic is a new AI mocap service that aims to simplify and enhance this process. Quick Magic can convert 2D videos of human movement into 3D skeletal animation data, also
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Rigify Pitchipoy, what is it? The “pitchipoy” version of Rigify is old news. It was released around 2014 or earlier and has since been updated and upgraded. Yet a lot of people seem to still be googling “blender rigify pitchipoy” and similar. So I decided to write this short article to clear things up. Blender
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If you’d like to learn how to actually animate and pose your character once you rig it with rigify, read/watch below. Choose your next step!
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Rigify helps you build a great rig very quickly. In addition, it also provides tools to make your rig more user friendly through Bone Groups and a handy Layers menu. Bone Groups and Bone Layers are standard Blender features. Rigify simply automates a lot of the tedious work that goes into making use of these
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(This article is a part of the Rigify series: go to the overview page so you can start from the beginning. 🙂 ) Going deeper into Rig Customization with Rigify In the previous chapter, you learned how to create Rig Types (Building Blocks) for Rigify. We then practiced by creating a Humanoid meta rig and giving it
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(This article is a part of the Rigify series: go to the overview page so you can start from the beginning. 🙂 ) If you’ve read and understood the information in Chapter 5-1 this section should be a breeze. Here we’ll recreate a Human meta rig starting from scratch. To make it more fun we’ll add custom
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