Rigging Fundamentals Overview for Blender

Rigging Fundamentals Overview for Blender, available at $59.99, has an average rating of 4.61, with 31 lectures, based on 9 reviews, and has 151 subscribers.

You will learn about What armatures are and how to use them What drivers are and how to adopt them What constraints are and how they work How to use the different parenting tools What Custom Properties are and how to utilise them When to watch, edit and manage the graph editors This course is ideal for individuals who are Blender modellers and general users who wish to begin building their armature rigging knowledge (mainly for animation purposes.) It is particularly useful for Blender modellers and general users who wish to begin building their armature rigging knowledge (mainly for animation purposes.).

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Summary

Title: Rigging Fundamentals Overview for Blender

Price: $59.99

Average Rating: 4.61

Number of Lectures: 31

Number of Published Lectures: 31

Number of Curriculum Items: 31

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 31

Original Price: $34.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

What armatures are and how to use them
What drivers are and how to adopt them
What constraints are and how they work
How to use the different parenting tools
What Custom Properties are and how to utilise them
When to watch, edit and manage the graph editors

Who Should Attend

Blender modellers and general users who wish to begin building their armature rigging knowledge (mainly for animation purposes.)

Target Audiences

Blender modellers and general users who wish to begin building their armature rigging knowledge (mainly for animation purposes.)

Are you trying to understand armatures, constraints or drivers but you can’t quite wrap your head around the basics? Do custom properties, driver modifiers or the graph editors fill you dismay? Fear not, for I am here to alleviate your rigging struggles!

Rigging is the process where you take multiple animatable ‘parts’ of an overall object (such as a vehicle for example) into simplistic and easy to control toggles, switches or sliders. A part of this is using armatures with bones, but that’s only half the workflow. More advanced rigs can easily have tens, hundreds or even thousands of bones! An animator will have a tough time animating all those so apart of a rigging task is finding ways to make animating all those bones as easy, straight-forward and as hassle free as practically possible.

It is important to understand the needs and requirements for the project, because you do not want to make your rigs too simplistic, nor too complicated. Understanding what changes throughout an animated project, at what intervals and how will assist you greatly when creating rigs.

To introduce you to rigging, we begin the course by looking at all the basic theory and many of the tools that you have at your disposal. Because constraints are a huge part of rigging, we look at what most of them do. We also take a look at some of the theory, what armatures and drivers are, and some of the tools at your disposal. By the time you’ve completed this simple course, you’ll be ready for a more detailed and intense rigging courses!

Are you ready to have a go at rigging? Enrol today, and you’ll soon be up to speed!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Pre Rig Checklist

Lecture 3: Project / Resource Files

Chapter 2: Armatures Theory

Lecture 1: General Intro to Armatures

Lecture 2: Weight Paint for Armatures Introduction

Lecture 3: Custom Shapes

Lecture 4: Bone Colors

Chapter 3: Rigging Theory

Lecture 1: Shape Keys

Lecture 2: Fundamentals of Drivers

Lecture 3: Custom Properties

Lecture 4: Conditional IF

Lecture 5: Understanding Radians

Lecture 6: Linking and Appending

Chapter 4: (Bone) Constraints

Lecture 1: Constraint Basics

Lecture 2: Transform: Copy Location / Rotation / Scale

Lecture 3: Transform: Limit Distance / Location / Rotation / Scale

Lecture 4: Tracking: Damped Track

Lecture 5: Tracking: Track To

Lecture 6: Tracking: Locked Track

Lecture 7: Tracking: Stretch To

Lecture 8: Relationship: Shrinkwrap

Lecture 9: Relationship: Child Of

Lecture 10: Relationship: Follow Path

Lecture 11: Tracking: Clamp To

Lecture 12: Relationship: Action

Lecture 13: Relationship: Floor

Lecture 14: Transform: Maintain Volume

Lecture 15: Transform: Transformation

Lecture 16: Tracking: Inverse Kinematics (IK)

Lecture 17: Tracking: Spline IK

Chapter 5: [Bonus Section]

Lecture 1: [Bonus Information]

Instructors

Kurtis Chamberlain
Power User & Artist

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