So with this armature, what we will do is adapt it to our character, in this case i’ll scale the armature first to match my character as much as possible, usually the best way is to bring the shoulders to your character’s shoulders height, and that gives you a good start to adjust the rest of the body To bring it back to the 0,0,0 or center of the scene, hit: alt+g that will reset it’s position. Go to your 3D viewport, and hit Shift+A (or look in the add menu) and select “Human (Meta-Rig)”Īn armature with premade bones will appear, wherever your 3D cursor is in the scene, Now you’re ready to start the rigging process. So activate the add-on, in File>User Preferences then go to the ADD-ONS tab, then in the search bar write: Rigify make sure that you check on the little checkbox next to it… If your check box is in the right side of the screen it’s because your version of blender is a bit older, but everything still works the same.Īnd click on the “Auto Run Python Scripts” check box It’s not the ideal pose, T pose is very outdated what should be used is A pose, but in any case, since blender’s auto weighting system is so good, you’ll see that here we wont have a problem. So we’re gonna rig this character designed by Claudio Saavedra, and modeled by Pamela Contreras How and were to activate the rigify add-on.It allows for easy and quickly rigging a biped character with no sweat, and with basically 0 rigging knowledge, although rigging knowledge is always needed if you want to customize it to add more legs, or arms, a tail, etc. I’m going to help you out learning how to quickly and effectively use Rigify, the automatic rigging tool that comes with blender and that you can probably use for most of your projects… I have used it several times for commercial projects and such. Have you heard about rigging?, probably yes since you’re looking at this tutorial.

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