Character Rigging in Blender : Easy Setup for Beginners — Transcript

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1. 0:00in this video I'm going to show you a
2. 0:01simple way to rig your characters for
3. 0:03complete beginners this is meant as a
4. 0:05starting point to get you into rigging
5. 0:08and moving about your characters in the
6. 0:09simplest way possible if you want to
7. 0:11take it further then do check out my
8. 0:12rigging and animation course discount
9. 0:14code in the description okay so I'm in
10. 0:17blender 4.1 but this should work in most
11. 0:19blender versions do check the
12. 0:21description for any updates I've got a
13. 0:23really basic character here if I go into
14. 0:25edit mode with tab so that's edit mode
15. 0:26up here you can see it's a really basic
16. 0:29character it has got a subdivision
17. 0:30surface modifier on so if I go to the
18. 0:32modifiers you can see that subdivision
19. 0:34surface modifier there and you can also
20. 0:35see the mirror above it as well and you
21. 0:37can rig characters with a mirror and a
22. 0:39subdivision service modifier and they'll
23. 0:41still work well so let's add the most
24. 0:43basic of rigs to this character do be
25. 0:45aware though that this is a very basic
26. 0:47rig it's not the most efficient rig but
27. 0:49it's a really good starting place to
28. 0:51understand what rigging is so I'll tab
29. 0:53back into object mode go to front view
30. 0:55and notice just quickly that my object
31. 0:57origin is at the center of the scene
32. 0:59that can be quite helpful and useful if
33. 1:00I press n on my keyboard and go up to
34. 1:02item you can see my character is
35. 1:04actually rather tall 3.58 M so I can
36. 1:07press Ester scale scale it down to let's
37. 1:09say 1.9 much more reasonable size but
38. 1:12because the object origins in the middle
39. 1:14at the bottom it's nice and easy to do
40. 1:15that so that's why you tend to get
41. 1:17characters that have their object
42. 1:18Origins at the bottom there okay so I
43. 1:20want to add an amature but before I do
44. 1:23it's a good idea to have the 3D cursor
45. 1:25right in the center of your scene if
46. 1:26it's not hold down shift and press s and
47. 1:29cursor to world origin that way when I
48. 1:31add my Armature it will be right in the
49. 1:33middle let's go back to front view with
50. 1:34one on my numpad shift a to add or you
51. 1:37can go to the add menu up here and under
52. 1:39Armature single bone let's zoom in and
53. 1:42see what's going on unfortunately this
54. 1:43bone is inserted into this person in a
55. 1:45rather nasty way but that does show us
56. 1:47that when the bone is inside the person
57. 1:48we can't see the bones and we want to be
58. 1:50able to see the bones all the time so we
59. 1:52can come across to the object data
60. 1:53properties that's with the bone selected
61. 1:55down to viewport display scroll down a
62. 1:58bit further and in front so the bones
63. 2:00will always be visible in front of the
64. 2:02character now to position the bones we
65. 2:04actually want to go into edit mode
66. 2:05because we want to keep that object
67. 2:07origin in the middle at the bottom there
68. 2:08and to edit our bones or add new bones
69. 2:11to this particular Armature and Armature
70. 2:13being a set of Bones we need to do that
71. 2:15in edit mode so tab into edit mode or
72. 2:17that's edit mode up here I'll zoom in a
73. 2:19touch and I'm going to start moving the
74. 2:20bones around now very quickly the bone
75. 2:22is split into three parts the head the
76. 2:24main body of the bone which selects
77. 2:26everything and then the tail at the end
78. 2:28here and you can move the head and the
79. 2:29tail or the whole bone together so let's
80. 2:31select the whole bone by selecting the
81. 2:33Middle s to scale it down G to grab in
82. 2:35The Zed axis and it is important to keep
83. 2:37it to the Zed axis so it stays in the
84. 2:39middle then we know it's right in the
85. 2:41center of our character I'll press G to
86. 2:42grab and this can be the first bone in
87. 2:44the Torso I'll just do two bones for the
88. 2:46Torso so the character can bend in half
89. 2:48to create a new bone we can select the
90. 2:50tail and press e to extrude and press
91. 2:52Zed for the Zed axis and move that up to
92. 2:54here for the neck e to extrude and the
93. 2:56Zed move that up to there and for the
94. 2:58head e to extrude in The Zed and take
95. 3:01that up to the top there okay so how do
96. 3:02we add in the arms well we can come from
97. 3:04this point here the start of the
98. 3:06neckbone E to extrude outwards like so
99. 3:09and that's like a clavicle e to extrude
100. 3:11to the Elbow e to extrude to the hand or
101. 3:14wrist there and E to extruded for the
102. 3:16hand Okay so we've got an arm in but
103. 3:18what about the other side well there is
104. 3:20a handy button here called X symmetry if
105. 3:22I click on that it should mean that
106. 3:24anything you do to this side will happen
107. 3:25on the other side so let's try and
108. 3:27extrude a hipbone out here so I'll
109. 3:28select the tail of the base bone there e
110. 3:31to extrude and pull that out to the side
111. 3:33here now it hasn't worked the Symmetry
112. 3:35and there's a reason for this whenever
113. 3:36you add a new bone to one side it
114. 3:38doesn't add one to the other side
115. 3:40because it's not labeled correctly
116. 3:41labeling is quite important for bones
117. 3:43particularly if they're on one side so
118. 3:45this bone for example down here the hip
119. 3:47bone I can rename that by pressing F2 or
120. 3:51I can go down to the bone properties
121. 3:52here and up to the top there we've got
122. 3:54the name as well and I can click on that
123. 3:56and rename it and I'll call it hip. l so
124. 3:59this is the left side of the character
125. 4:01so L represents the left I'll do the
126. 4:04same for the arm but I'll speed this up
127. 4:06so shoulder
128. 4:08DOL upper arm and you can put in an
129. 4:11underscore or capital letters or
130. 4:13whatever you choose forearm DOL and
131. 4:17handl so they've all got theirl now so I
132. 4:20can select my entire amature with a
133. 4:22right click and symmetrize and you can
134. 4:24see how those bones are now on the other
135. 4:26side and if I click on any of those
136. 4:27bones you can see in the name here here
137. 4:30and in fact in the top left here that
138. 4:31we've got that R now instead ofl for
139. 4:35this side hence why naming is very
140. 4:36useful so I can now select this point
141. 4:39here the tail of our hipbone e to
142. 4:41extrude and because I've got the X
143. 4:43symmetry turned on up here and it's
144. 4:45labeled correctly it's also going to do
145. 4:47it on the other side as well so I'll
146. 4:49bring that down to here e to extrude
147. 4:51down to the bottom here let's go to side
148. 4:53view now with three I'll just position
149. 4:55these a little bit better and E to
150. 4:57extrude down here for the foot I can
151. 5:00just reposition some of these as well
152. 5:02but generally they're not too bad now
153. 5:04you might want to rename your legs and
154. 5:06feet I'm not going to do that but that's
155. 5:08something that I would recommend you do
156. 5:10because at the moment they're just hip.
157. 5:12l003 and so on now how do we attach our
158. 5:15character to the amateure where we
159. 5:17parent one to the other a simple
160. 5:18explanation of parents is that the child
161. 5:21in this case the character will always
162. 5:23go where the parent goes so when I move
163. 5:25my bones the child of the bone or the
164. 5:27character in this case will move as well
165. 5:29the way we parent is we do this in
166. 5:31object mode so tab back into object mode
167. 5:33that's object mode up here we always
168. 5:35make sure that the parent what we're
169. 5:37trying to parent to in this case the
170. 5:39bones is selected last or the active
171. 5:42object so if I select the body and then
172. 5:45select the bones last the bones is the
173. 5:47active object you can see that in the
174. 5:49outliner there's Armature and there's my
175. 5:51body and you can also see it's
176. 5:53highlighted in yellow the active object
177. 5:55I can now press control P to parent you
178. 5:58can also find that in the object menu
179. 6:00under parent but I'll press contrl P it
180. 6:02simplifies the menu and under amateure
181. 6:04deform there's an option called
182. 6:06automatic weights we'll click on that
183. 6:08and I'll explain it a little bit further
184. 6:10so now if I click just on the body and
185. 6:12go to the modifiers we've got our mirror
186. 6:14modifier we've then got our subdivision
187. 6:16surface modifier to smooth it out and
188. 6:18then we've got the Armature and what
189. 6:20we've also got that's new is under the
190. 6:22vertex data we've got vertex groups and
191. 6:25each of the bones has a Vertex group so
192. 6:27let's say the hand just here will have
193. 6:29influence on the vertices around it and
194. 6:32also be given a certain weight so I'll
195. 6:34select our Armature I'll go into pose
196. 6:36mode so that's control tab or you can
197. 6:38choose pose mode up here and let's see
198. 6:41how we got on I'll select a bone and
199. 6:43press R to rotate and you can see that's
200. 6:45moving my character and I can keep
201. 6:46selecting different bones rotate them to
202. 6:48move different parts of my character now
203. 6:50like I say this is a very simple rig so
204. 6:52it might be a bit awkward to control but
205. 6:54it's done a reasonable job what you
206. 6:56might notice though is that there's some
207. 6:57Distortion around places like this this
208. 7:00is due to the weight of the vertices if
209. 7:02I zoom out just a touch come out of pose
210. 7:04mode back into object mode with control
211. 7:06tab or that's object mode up here and
212. 7:08choose the body then go into edit mode
213. 7:10now initially that goes back to its
214. 7:12original position but I can click on my
215. 7:14modifiers and choose this option here
216. 7:16display modifier in edit mode and the on
217. 7:18cage option which will actually move the
218. 7:20object into its position affected by
219. 7:22this modifier and you can see my
220. 7:24character is so simple that if I select
221. 7:26this Edge Loop here that's the only
222. 7:28piece of topology between these two
223. 7:30joints so there's a bit of distortion
224. 7:32there and ideally would have more
225. 7:34topology where there's a joint it's
226. 7:36worth noting there's a button within the
227. 7:37modifier called preserve volume so if
228. 7:39you do have enough topology and you're
229. 7:41still getting pinching that can
230. 7:42sometimes help it tries to keep the
231. 7:44volume of the shape in this case it's
232. 7:46not helping because we've not got enough
233. 7:48vertices in this joint here so I'll turn
234. 7:51that off but hopefully this should give
235. 7:53you a nice starting point I'll go back
236. 7:54into object mode back into my Armature
237. 7:57back into pose mode and you can see that
238. 8:00you can have lots of fun moving this
239. 8:02character around into weird wonderful
240. 8:04positions now like I say this rig is
241. 8:06very basic and there'll be a few
242. 8:08problems if I select the root bone like
243. 8:09this and press G to grab you can see
244. 8:11that the hip bone isn't linked properly
245. 8:13generally you have an extra root bone
246. 8:15for moving the entire object what we can
247. 8:17do here is if I go into edit mode for my
248. 8:20character I can make sure that these
249. 8:21bones move for this one by selecting
250. 8:23both of them selecting the bone we want
251. 8:26them to parent to last and control P to
252. 8:28parent use keep offset if you want to
253. 8:30keep them in exactly the same position
254. 8:32now if I go into pose mode with control
255. 8:34tab cross the pose mode if I select this
256. 8:37one and press G to grab is moving my
257. 8:40whole character so there's a few handy
258. 8:42tips that should help you when rigging
259. 8:44your characters if you want to learn
260. 8:46more about this then I would suggest
261. 8:47taking my rigging and animation course
262. 8:50discount coupon in the description any
263. 8:52questions then comment below otherwise
264. 8:54thanks for watching and I'll see you
265. 8:55next time