Rigging a Humanoid Character with Blender

Learn to rig a human skeleton with Blender: creating bones, setting up inverse kinematics and controller shapes, and attaching the mesh to the rig.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Creating the Main Bones and Functionality of the Body

• Importing the mesh and setup of the scene environment
• Creating the root and spine bones
• Creating the neck, head, and leg bones
• Creating the leg IK (inverse kinematics)

2. Creating the Bones and Functionality of the Foot

• Creating the foot bones
• Creating the foot IK bones

3. Creating the Bones and Functionality for the Arm and Hand

• Creating the arm and hand bones
• Creating the arm IK bones

4. Creating Custom Controller Shapes for the Bones

• Creating controller shapes and assigning them to bones
• Modifying the rotation, position, and scale of controller shapes
• Creating custom controller shapes
• Creating custom controller shapes for the foot
• Duplicating the left arm and leg bones to the right side of the body

5. Weighting the Mesh of the Body to the Rig

• Initial weighting of the mesh to the bones
• Adjusting the weight painting of the mesh to the bones

Conclusion

• Goodbye