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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
“Rig Anything with Rigify” #5-2 – Custom Rig from Scratch! Read More »
Rig Types: How Rigify REALLY works. (This article is a part of the Rigify series: go to the overview page so you can start from the beginning. 🙂 ) The four chapters until now have been a necessary intro to rigging in general and Rigify in particular. With this chapter the real fun with Rigify
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If you stumbled upon this article by accident you can go to the course overview HERE and start from the beginning. In this part we’ll learn… …the incorrect way to extend the Rigify Meta Rigs 🙂 Here is the video to this chapter. More information and ideas can be found below. I briefly mentioned this
“Rig Anything with Rigify” #04 Scary FRANKENSTEIN Meta Rigs Read More »
This is the third chapter in my course “Rig Anything with Rigify”. If you stumbled upon it be accident you can go to the course overview HERE. Chapter 3-1 Rigging a Biped/Human Chapter 3-2 Rigging a Quadruped/Dog My goal with this course is to help you build your own custom Rigs. However Rigify provides a number of prebuilt
“Rig Anything with Rigify” Chapter 3: The Prebuilt MetaRigs (Human and Quadruped) Read More »
This is the second chapter in my course “Rig Anything with Rigify”. A course that will show you how to use Rigify in Blender to significantly speed up and simplify the character rigging process. The article and video for Chapter 1 are HERE. An overview of the whole course can be found HERE. In this
“Rig Anything with Rigify Chapter 2: The Rigify Workflow Read More »
Rigging in Blender is difficult. The basics are easy to grasp but when you start getting into advanced rigging, things get really complicated really fast. To master this craft you need a synergy of artistic and technical skills and those literally take years to develop. A lot of Blender artists need a good and versatile
Rig Anything with Rigify. Chapter 1: Rigging in Blender (basics) Read More »
Hi and welcome to my Rigify tutorial series. Rigify is an addon for Blender that greatly simplifies the character rigging process. If you tried and failed to create functional rigs in the past I think you’ll love the information presented here. I believe it will save you many hours of frustration (it did for me).
“Rig Anything with Rigify”: Tutorial Series Intro Read More »
This is the final part in my Whale Modeling, Sculpting and Texturing workflow videos. The other parts can be found here: part 1 || part 2 || part 3 Here I show the texturing portion. It’s done in Substance Painter. The process is presented as time-lapsed videos with annotations. Blender can also be used for
Humpback Whale Modeling in Blender (Part 4 Texturing in Substance Painter) Read More »
This is part 3 of my Whale Modeling, Sculpting and Texturing workflow videos. The other parts can be found here: part 1 || part 2 || part 4 In this video I detail the Whale model in Blender. I utilize Multi-res sculpting (which is broken in the current version 2.82… you should either use an
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This is part 2 of my Whale Modeling, Sculpting and Texturing workflow videos. The other parts can be found here: part 1 || part 3 || part 4 In this part, I focus on UV Unwrapping in Blender. The process is presented as time-lapsed videos with annotations. UV Unwrapping can be tedious. So put on
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