This course is also available as part of the CORE Bundle of Fundamental Blender Courses 

LEARN HOW RIGGING WORKS

Welcome to the Fundamentals of Rigging where the technical skill of rigging will be demystified.

Rigging is the art of building the deformation structure and controls to articulate your 3d models. Rigging can be really complicated, so it's best to start at the start and go step by step.

If your goal is to just learn enough to make that character you move - this is the course for you.

If your goal is to learn to build super complicated rigs - this course is for you.

Building a solid understanding of the fundamentals will help you achieve both of those goals.

What you will learn

By the end of this course, you should have a good understanding of:

• Bone tools
• Weight painting
• Armature modifier
• Rigging concepts
• Bone constraints
• Custom properties and drivers
• Space types
• Good and bad practices
• How to build a basic rig for your character

Bones

Start at the beginning

Bones are the building blocks of your rig.  You'll learn everything from the ground up to build your knowledge and understanding

Rigging Concepts

Break it down

You will learn the roles of each of the bones in a rig so that complexity becomes simplified.

Weight Painting

Articulate

Learn the art of weight painting.  You will master all the different techniques to get your verts to move exactly the way you need.

Project-Based Learning

Practice what you learn

What good is learning if you don't get to practice it right?  Along the way you will have several exercises and projects to build yourself.  Each designed to build upon what you have learned and solidify that knowledge.

The projects start out easy and build in difficulty as your skills improve.

Final Project 

Basic Character Rig

The final project is to build a basic character rig that you can actually animate. This rig is designed to be a simple as possible and no simpler.
But more importantly, you can take what you learn from this project and apply it directly to your own characters.
This is the ultimate goal of the course!

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