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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 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
What is Blender Rigify Pitchipoy? (Hint: use the NEW Rigify instead) Read More »
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!
Rig Anything with Rigify #8: Posing with Rigify Read More »
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
“Rig Anything with Rigify” #6 – Custom Alien Rig (Intermediate) Read More »
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 »
So you are looking for “Rigify Download”? You heard about this Rigify thing and now you are looking for a way to get your hands on it, right? 🙂 Good news: you don’t have to download Rigify! It is included in Blender. In this short article you’ll learn how to get, activate and even start
Rigify Download – how to download the Rigify addon for Blender 2.8/2.9/3.0/4 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 »