Blender Character Rigging For Beginners HD
What you'll learn
- You will learn how to rig a 3D human character in Blender for animations and video games
- You will learn how to use Blender software and become proficient with its rigging features
- You will understand how bones in blender work for rigging in detail
- You will learn how to work with bones using world, local, pose and local with parent space
- You will understand blender coordinate systems
- You will understand how to use all blender weight tools
- You will understand Axis Angle, Euler Angles and Quaternion Rotations
Requirements
- You should be able to use a PC which can run Blender 2.78a or above
- You should know how to download Blender and unzip files
Description
Blender Character Rigging For Beginners HD is a series by Riven Phoenix that takes the art student through a step-by-step process in rigging a high quality 3D human character from scratch using blender's powerful rigging features. This course is considered volume two of "Blender Character Modeling for Beginners HD" Course where you learned to model a realistic human figure from scratch without any reference using a formula based system. You however will get to download the 3D character to use in this course as a starting point or simply use the character you already built using volume one or your own character. The art student will start by placing the required bones onto a realistic human figure model and learn at the same time how to develop it into an advance rigging system. Riven Phoenix will explain in detail many aspects of rigging step-by-step and show the student how to understand and build an advance knowledge of blender's internal rigging system for human character motion. Students will with this course become very intimate with blender's complex rigging system which they can apply to any 3D character. This course is designed to teach art students how to use blender's rigging system from the ground up and become more confident with it to develop their own rigging systems from scratch. Each step is explained clearly so the student can follow along with ease.
Blender's rigging system is a very complex subject to understand so Riven Phoenix will explain in detail how to understand and use the rigging system for students who are completely new to this subject. Great care has been taken to explain in detail this complex subject matter.
Who this course is for:
- Artists who want to learn how to rig human characters in Blender
- Game Developers who want to learn 3D human character rigging in Blender
- Complete beginner artists who are willing to push themselves to learn 3D rigging
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Course content
Introduction to Rigging in Blender10 lectures • 2hr 34min
- 1.1 Introduction to Rigging CoursePreview02:36
- 1.3 Introduction to Blender Rigging - Part 2Preview19:20
- 1.4 Downloading and Setting up your File for RiggingPreview05:36
- 1.5 Intro to Bones and Placing your First Bones - Part 1Preview19:18
- 1.6 Intro to Bones and Placing your First Bones - Part 2Preview18:57
- 1.7 Intro to Bones and Placing your First Bones - Part 3Preview19:50
- 1.8 Intro to Bones and Placing your First Bones - Part 4Preview15:06
- 1.9 Naming your BonesPreview18:22
- 1.10 Mirroring your Bones14:49
General Overview of Rigging Concepts10 lectures • 2hr 59min
Intro to Vertex Groups, Weights Concepts16 lectures • 4hr 24min
Start Rigging Process - Stage 113 lectures • 3hr 22min
Parent Child Relationship Concepts19 lectures • 5hr 16min
Bone Roll, Quaternion, Axis Angle, Euler Angle15 lectures • 4hr 16min
Rigging Head & Neck3 lectures • 55min
Rigging Eyes, Tongue, Jaw5 lectures • 1hr 28min
Rigging Chest & Hips4 lectures • 1hr 10min
Rigging Legs & Feet8 lectures • 2hr 13min
Instructor
- 4.7 Instructor Rating
- 3,939 Reviews
- 19,980 Students
- 3 Courses
Art Instructor Riven Phoenix is best known for The Complete Figure Drawing Course HD and The Blender Modeling & Rigging courses where virtually every art student succeeds with his style of teaching. Riven Phoenix's goal in life is to give underprivileged students access to industrial art knowledge. Riven grew up in Stamford, CT where he attended the Rippowam High School. After graduation he attended several art schools including the School of Visual Arts in New York City and the Connecticut Institute of Art. Riven grew up reading comic books where his passion for figure drawing developed. He dedicated his life to coming up with an easy to follow system which would allow any young artist to rapidly develop the ability to draw human figures and model them in 3D from the mind without using any reference. Riven's dream was to put all his knowledge in a set of courses for young serious artists who shared the same passion for learning anatomy. It took Riven Phoenix 10 years to put together his figure drawing course and another 2 years of filming to create The Complete Figure Drawing Course HD. His efforts paid off as his course took the art world by storm with students from over 172 countries took his course with great success. With now over tens of thousands of students worldwide Riven Phoenix videos courses are used by leading entertainment studios world over. Riven also created the breakthrough Pose Tool 3D app which allowed artists to pose human figures on a mobile device to use as a reference for creating works of art. Riven spent another two years developing his Blender Modeling & Rigging courses. Both his blender courses became great successes. Today Riven still teaches and works on creating industrial art courses. You can help support Riven Phoenix's works by buying his courses.