Blender 2.9 Tutorial - How to Rig a Character Quickly and Easily in Blender using the Rigify Add-on!
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- How to rig a human character quickly and easily using Blender's built-in add-on Rigify.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:28 Enabling the Built-in Blender Rigify Add-on
0:42 Adding the Armature
1:52 Positioning the Armature
9:31 Generating the Animation Rig
9:59 Common Issue #1: Scale
10:48 Common Issue #2: Disjoint
12:03 Common Issue #3: Face
12:37 Attaching your Model to the Rig
13:06 Controlling the Rig
15:21 Resetting the Rig
15:45 Wrap-up & Next Video
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Chapters
0:01 Introduction
0:28 Enabling the Built-in Blender Rigify Add-on
0:42 Adding the Armature
1:52 Positioning the Armature
9:31 Generating the Animation Rig
9:59 Common Issue #1: Scale
10:48 Common Issue #2: Disjoint
12:03 Common Issue #3: Face
12:37 Attaching your Model to the Rig
13:06 Controlling the Rig
15:21 Resetting the Rig
15:45 Wrap-up & Next Video
I create three to four mouth pose from vertex group while in Edit mode. When i have fail to use the mouth pose to my character. and render it. How can use them to my character and render it into Mp4. Plizz im stack.
I create three to four mouth pose from vertex group while in Edit mode. But i have fail to use the mouth pose to my character. and render it. How can use them to my character and render it into Mp4. Plizz im stack.
Thanks for this walkthrough. I cannot seem to find the next part in this series you mentioned for weight painting and animating, was it removed?
Oh yeah I haven't posted it yet, couldn't get the animation where I wanted it haha
For anyone having an issue with the "Generate Rig" button not appearing, the reason is that you need to leave Edit Mode and go into Object Mode. The video's transition at the 9:29 mark glossed over this part.
Thanks Caleb! I totally botched that haha sorry!
I'm revisiting this tutorial a few weeks later and you my friend saved my life and sanity
Haha damn, sorry I messed that up! I'm glad someone cleared it up though!
@@RussellMidfield it's all ok xD
Haha I feel terrible! Huge oversight on my part which has led to some confusion for a few people, not the best for what is supposed to be an informative tutorial haha lol! I should start calling my videos confusionals!
Love the fact that you talk about common problems!! that really sets your tutorial above the rest! Thank you
Thanks FriendlyTH-camr, you really are! Yeah I missed one though I hadn't encountered before I made this video, bone heat weighting! Argh, might have to make another updated version of this tutorial to really polish it off, I'm glad if it helped though!
Yea for sure! I plan on doing one pretty soon.
Yeah no worries man!
Your intro is amazing. Quick, and not obnoxious. What a breath of fresh air
Haha thanks Sticki, yeah I try and keep it on topic without too much fan fare haha
This video goes from A+ to S tier once you hit the "common issues" section. This is what a lot of tutorial videos leave out.
Haha yeah, I missed a bunch of stuff in the video. I made another better version of this video with more troubleshooting but I figure no one will watch it haha so I just try and comment here on fixes and so far it's been working out ok!
Tip: Enable "Volume Snapping" in the snapping menu and set it to center so it will snap all the bones to the center of any volume
Yeah great tip!
It's along the top, a small button with a magnet on it.
Wow this is an awesome tip 🙌 very useful
Thank you bro...love it🙏😊
FOR SECTION 12:37 TO CLARIFY, attaching the model to the rig: "to attach "it" to the model?" the it here he is referring to is the actual rig that was created and not the meta rig we used to create the metarig, so if you cant see the option it is because you selected the wrong rig, hope this helps someone else that got stuck here too. if you read this russell, great tutorial but you seem to suffer from the SAME issue every other tutorial maker on youtube has, too fast and glossing over. you really gotta make everything into baby steps for people who don't use the software every day. perhaps also using shortcuts should be avoided in your tutorials and manually selecting options from dropdown menus should be favoured. thanks again for the tutorial great work!
Thanks man! Yeah it's tough to make these sometimes, really sorry about that!
Good points. But, to be fair... this is the first tutorial I didn't need to slow the speed all the way down to follow! ^_^
Haha thanks Andrew! I definitely could have done this tutorial better but I'm glad it helped!
aaaaaah, thank you! this was just the tutoral i needed! not to long, clear and concise and actually covering potential problems. and i just love your speaking voice. it is so reassuring and make everything seam so simple!
Haha thanks Torjus! I'm glad it was just the right mix of info, pace, and sultry voice for you! 😅
I love how in-depth this tutorial was! Especially the troubleshooting section. Thanks!
Thanks Dean! I'm glad it helped! Yeah thought it'd be helpful just in case since I've run into those problems myself before
@@RussellMidfield Yeah, I have experience with Rigify and STILL run into issues. Very hard to find help online for each problem!
Haha I hear ya, you have to be a glutton for punishment when you Shit+A and add that armature in haha
I've watched lots of videos on this same topic. After about a day with messing, this one finally work for me on the first time. Really great stuff about what to troubleshoot when it doesn't work. That's what most people skip over and all the sudden you're lost. Great job man.
Thanks Jason! Yeah I know the feeling haha, one mis-click somewhere along the line and and everything goes off the rails, I'm glad this one helped you out!
Your channel needs to get more recognition. You're extremely helpful and easy to understand. Great job!👍
Thanks Javier, appreciate it! I'm glad the video was helpful, when you get your character moving gimme a shout somewhere!
Hey Russell, just want to say thanks a million for this, it is really hard to find good/quick info on Rigify and this is just right. Thank you sir, your channel is great!
Hey Logan, thanks man for saying that, its nice to hear when someone gets some value out of these videos, however small!
thank you bro ! your the one who explain slowly and giving shortcut keys clearly ... subscribed
Thanks man! I'm glad it helped you!
Finding your channel was the best thing that could have happened; I love your videos, man!
Thanks man! Dude you're hilarious haha, got Deathflush on right now, what an experience
Really appreciate your videos man!
Keep up the good work and thank you
Thanks Joe! I'm glad they help, it's fun making them!
Really fantastic, I cannot stress enough how much having your clicks and key commands show up as you go is. Leaning them is easy when you move something and the letter S pops up a bunch. Over all very solid.
Thanks S Marsh! Yeah I always liked it when someone went over the shortcuts, it made using Blender a lot faster and enjoyable for me. Soon it will be second nature. I'm glad it helped!
Its rare to find an indepth video tutorial like yours im so amazed. I automatically subscribed to such a direct yet solution based video! kkepp it up!
Thanks kino! I'm glad it helped!
Man that coming up SF idle animation tutorial is all I want in life
Haha lol I suck at animating, it didn't turn out as well as I had hoped so it's sitting on the back burner for now 😅
You're telling me I could do this the whole time!
Haha it's true! This whole time!
You are the best. I`ve got one of those common issues, and already despaired but then i heard that you are going to show how to solve it. I have watched another videos about the rigging, and yours have more explanation. Nice done
Thanks! Oh that's great to hear, I'm glad that it solved it!
My boi back with another one😌💪🏾 again, I appreciate your content man🙏🏾
You know it bruh! If you ever rig something up show me how it turns out!🤜🤛
So I watched this on my work pc (wasn’t signed in) and than came back here to just like and comment on the video cz he did such an amazing job explaining this. You the real mvp.
Haha thanks Ali! That means a lot! I'm glad it helped!
t-pose makes rigging so much easier I wish more models had theirs in T-Pose
Yeah it's true, I need to incorporate that into my modeling. It makes doing the hands way easier.
_Thank_ you. This is my favorite tutorial by far, you really helped me out. Thanks for making a comprehensible beginner's tutorial, I owe ya
You're welcome! I'm so glad it helped!
Best rigging tutorial I saw. I watched few others but always got problem with scale, disjointed bones or dunno how to limit stretching no one of it explained why it was happening so o had to Google, here everything is clear from start to finish.
Thanks Jarek! I'm glad it helped you out!
the way u explained about errors was just awesome...
Thanks Veda! Love your last Blender architecture vid, very cool! You should do a tutorial on it!
Thanks for this great tutorial. Clear, concise and love the debug tips! Chanel looks very interesting. Will sub as you have a lot of good video topics!
Thanks Joe, appreciate it! Yeah slowly adding videos here and there, most of them are duds haha but hopefully there are a few good tips floating around in there!
Thank you for time and the feed back - I will try your suggestions.
No worries, let me know if it works! It seems to be a somewhat common issue it turns out, I should have included it in my video.
Thank you for creating this tutorial. The one from blender is lacking the common issues section and I've had each of the issues mentioned. Thank you again!
Yeah no worries Chalked, I'm glad it helped!
Thank you a lot! The only tutorial on rigging what actually helped me.
You're welcome! I'm glad it helped!
love this tutorial, it has everything i needed for my projects for school, ill be recomending this to all the beginners in blender :DD + the problem solving with the disconected spine was really really helpful
Thanks Frederika! Haha yeah I had it happen to me a few times so I thought other people might be having the same issue, I'm glad it helped!
Thanks bro , really helped me a lot , everyone else's tutorials are so fast can't understand anything. Your one is really simple and explained . Love from India.❤️
Yeah no worries man! Haha yeah I tried to slow it down a bit, I'm glad it helped you out! Thanks for stopping by!
Thanks For This Video.And im glad to see that u showed some of the common issues.We need more guys like u :)
Haha thanks Raven! Yeah I missed a couple but I'm glad it helped!
Great video men, I can finally do something with my characters !
Thanks man! Yeah it's awesome when they start moving around haha!
Great video man! I, like others here, had issues with attaching the rig. My case might be unique: My mesh (just one big object) had a few Modifiers that I had to apply first. (Then I did some decimation and instantly applied to reduce poly count). I was worried that this entire tutorial wouldn't work, because I had one object, and not separte objects for legs, arms etc, but it did. Thanks! :D
Thanks man! I would dare say that having your character as one mesh is actually better! Nice to hear it worked out!
Best explanation of rigging ever! Thanks a lot, man!
No worries Amelie! I'm glad it helped!
Great stuff, I'm gonna check out the next one! Cheers!
Thanks Shocky!
Where's the next part of this ?
And Thanks for this really helpful tutorial ♥️
Oh I haven't posted it yet, sorry. I've recorded a bunch of stuff but haven't edited it yet. Yeah no worries I'm glad it helped!
@@RussellMidfield If you are done editing please upload. this video helped me a lot. I would like to see the next part!
I'm glad it helped! Yeah sorry! Hopefully soon I can get off my butt and finally edit it haha 😅
@@RussellMidfield sure. looking forward to a great learning video
This was the third tutorial I watched before learning how to apply the rig to my mesh. The others just generated the rig and bam! Which didn’t work for me. Thanks so much for the help.
Nice! Yeah no worries I'm glad it helped!
dude youre so good at making and helping with these tutorials thank you!!!
Haha thanks Louwrens! I'm glad if there is a nugget of helpful information in there for you!
God you are good. You covered all the absolute necessaries and faced issues in one video. And in only 16 minutes.
Haha thanks Mehras! I'm glad it helped!
I've re-directed some people from more difficult video tutorials to this! You're Welcome ;)
Thanks Tyronic! Thats awesome to hear!
GREAT VID !!
Haha thanks! Well I think it's starting to look unanimous, face rigging soon!
@@RussellMidfield How did you add the braid? Was the braid rigged?
@@GOGOGLOW2 I didn't end up showing my rigging the braid. I retopologized it and then applied soft body physics to it so it would hang and swing, but I found that with both the physics system and the collision detection needed so it wouldn't clip through the body, it was too laggy on my computer when trying to animate it. I'll have to revisit some time in the future when I'm not so incredibly dumb haha
@@RussellMidfield Im gonna send you a a video of a person who got a braid to attach to a scalp and I want you to see if that's the same wau.
Sounds good, thanks!
Wow, an amazing tutorial! Thank you for going through all the common issues (most tutorials don't bother to).
Thanks Min! I'm glad it helped! Yeah these were a few things I thought might be helpful, although there a few more I should probably add in a new video!
Very clear instructions, and the troubleshooting section is esp helpful!
Thanks Sfazal! I'm glad it helped!
Did you do the tutorial on the braid rigging? Would be very interesting and helpful.
Oh yes I should do that sometime soon!
When I create my rig everything looks good except the arrows around your character's waist (in the video) are around my character's feet. It seems to be causing issues with animation. any ideas on this? BTW amazing video. This helps me immensely
Thanks man! Oh that's because my character's waist is actually at the origin point, whereas your character's feet are probably at the origin. What issues is it causing?
@@RussellMidfield oh maybe none. I was getting controls on the animation to work after its weighted. So I thought maybe that was the cause. I’ll play around some more
Good pace, you made it look easy. Considering its vital to animation and requires considerations like depth of mesh, anatomy and hyper extension, COGS good job
Thanks stellar! I'm glad it helped!
My favorite channel to learn Blender!! Thxs man!!
Thanks man! I'm glad they help!
blender completely locks up when i apply the automatic weights to my character. do you know any reasons as to why that might happen?
Hmm, what's the polycount of your model?
@@RussellMidfield 2.2 mil. that might be why...
Haha yeah, I should have made it more clear in this video sorry, generally when rigging your model should be retopologized/low poly for animation, I'm kicking myself for not mentioning it in the video
@@RussellMidfield no you're good! thanks for the help. your tutorial was the best i've come across.
Thanks man! Good luck with retopo, it can be a beast if you do it by hand, but once you get through it it makes the model easier to texture, rig, and animate. There are some free automatic retopology tools like Instantmesh that can help make it a little easier too.
Hey do you know why my bones aren't connected to my model and when I move the rigs the bones stay in place
In this video I only parent the model to the rig and not the armature. You can parent the model to the armature directly if you want the bones to move but you will lose the rig and all of the color-coded handles that facilitate animation and posing.
thank you! a great introduction to Rigify
Thanks Bob! I'm glad it helped!
Thanks for talking about the Rig Control! I dunno why everyone else is teaching you how to rig but very few mentions what to do afterward.
Yeah no worries CL! I'm glad it helped!
I’m having issues after parenting the object. What I go to move the rig with grab it follows but when I go to move the individual pieces of the rig, like bend the arm for example, the character doesn’t move/bend.
Hmm that's a tough one, so in Pose mode, when you select and move the entire rig, the whole model follows? But when you grab just one element/handle of the rig, nothing follows?
@@RussellMidfield Yes. And when I move an individual piece the rig does what it’s supposed to, but the object won’t bend.
@@nearbynightmare229 Hmm very strange! You can try posting some pictures or video to the Facebook group then we can maybe help a little better. There are also really active Blender Discord servers that have a lot of people that can help really quickly too.
I'm having the same issue, did you find any solutions?
@@serendpiity1449 you are probably selecting the metarig before going into pose mode. You have to select the generated rig not metarig and it'll work
Great tutorial. But I got the following message: "Failed to find solution for one or two bones." Did some research on error message but unable to get it to work. I missing something -- have your run into this problem?
Mmm yea it can relate to bone heat weighting. Some possible solutions would be to 1. scale up your model, as it may be too small for the bones for weighting, or 2. tab into edit mode, select all the vertices, press F3 for the search menu and type in "merge" and then select "merge by distance", sometimes if you have too many overlapping vertices this can cause weighting
Already scale my model up to 50 but still getting error. Can't find any solutions that worked on the internet. But I follow your instructuons No.2 with merge vertices and it worked. Thank you!
Nice! That's awesome! I'm glad it worked!
omg!
thx very much!
this video one of the bests about rigify, with lots of useful information
Thanks KenSteely! I'm glad it helped!
Outstanding Tutorial BTW!!
Thanks Flange! I'm glad if it helped!
I’m sure this is super simple, but I keep having a few issues pop up as I try to follow the steps. I apply the mirroring on the x axis and then move things, MEGA sized armatures appear across the axis, also when I try to rotate things, say the hand, all of the bones rotate simultaneously and disconnect from each other. And lastly, when I generate the rig, it keeps moving the controls to other areas and making them different sizes? I’ve cleared all transformations and tried resetting the object origin to center of mass. Anyone know how to fix these issues?
Hmm, very strange! The only thing that comes to mind is that you maybe have your Transform Pivot Point (icon is along the top of the viewport, to the left of the Snapping icon) set to something other than Bounding Box Center. Perhaps Individual Origins. This would cause the odd rotation issue you seem to be having.
I just figured it out! Your character is probably not aligned to the X axis. The mirror option only works on the X axis apparently
Oh yeah that could be it! Good point!
I'm also having your problem. Did you fix the issue yet?
@@Tsero0v0 I did, but I tried so many different things that I forget what ended up working in the end. I know I tried the suggestions in the comments here, but I think I might have also ended up disconnecting the armature altogether, making sure everything had the scale and rotation properly applied, and then redoing it. Sorry, hopefully that helps. I should have commented when I fixed it.
After applying automatic weights and then moving the character in pose mode it doesn't move with the mesh. HELP!
What is the polycount of your model?
@@RussellMidfield i don't remember but it was high!
@@shardulsonwane675 oh like in the hundreds of thousands or millions? if that's the case, then that is likely the reason. Sorry I should have made it more clear in the video, generally rigging works best when your model is retopologized and optimized for animation. I'm making another video to clear up some of the stuff I missed in this one since I clearly didn't do a good job haha.
@@RussellMidfield Thank you so much!
Very nice. Thanks for showing this.
Thanks Jim, I'm glad if it helped!
Awesome instructions I wasn't aware of, thanks for sharing 👍😊🙏
Yeah no worries man! I'm glad if it helped!
After parenting the rig and mesh with automatic weight, anytime i try to pose the character only the rig move but not the mesh?
What's the polycount of your model?
same
What's the polycount of your model?
@@RussellMidfieldmine is doing the same. i downloaded mine as a low poly model
Do you have any modifiers on your model?
13:59
When i press N key, it does not show "Rig Main Properties".
it show "transform" only
Why?
Hmm, do you have the object named "rig" selected? if you have the "metarig" or another object selected the Rig Layers won't show.
@@RussellMidfield yes i do select the "rig" but it wont shows up :(
I have the same issue, did you solved it?
Edit: just found out 30 sec. later.
Have to go into Pose mode, that's it^^
Oh wow thanks Mas! I can't believe I didn't think of mentioning that!
@@anidiot2818 I owe you one. :)
Thanks for explaining the issues. I had some problems and couldnt find the solutions for a long time.
Yeah no worries 3.00! I'm glad they helped!
thanks for the video , its really helpful that you point out the common issues.my finally realise what problem Ive occurred. thanks a lot, pls keep doing it
Yeah no worries Marcus! I'm glad it helped! I hope your character is dancing up a storm now!
thanks now i can give some life to my character instead of the statue look 🙂😉😉😉😉😉
Yeah it's true! No more T-pose monsters floating through your viewport
Thank you for your patient and thorough teaching method.
No worries Riley! I'm glad it helped!
Underated channel keep up the good work !
Thanks CappuccinoBean!
Thank you! My character scaling was off and so was the rotation, so resetting those worked.
Yeah no worries T-2902! I'm glad it helped. Yeah it's something I always forgot to do at first, sometimes I still forget to haha
this was very well done! step by step and easy to follow along. thank you very much
Thanks Retire and Go! I'm glad it helped!
Thanks probabley the best rigging video I’ve seen so far
Thanks Ytrix! I'm glad it helped you out!
Thank you for this detailed and easy to understand tutorial.
Yeah no worries, I'm glad if it helped!
Incredible video, thanks mate!
No worries Caetano! Glad it helped!
Russell, thanks for the tutorial!
No worries Al, glad it helped!
perfectly explained! thank you. Subscribed
Thanks WellKnownSin! I'm glad it helped!
BEST TUTORIAL ON THE INTERNET THANK YOU SUBBED!
Thanks civ! I'm glad it helped!
This the tutorial I looking for, thanks man!
Yeah no worries man! I'm glad it helped!
I just discovered your channel and you are amazing! I will use your tutorials for sure
Thanks! I hope they help!
Well explained mate, thanks a lot.
Thanks man, I hope it helped nudge you in the right direction 👍
OMG!!! Dude! You made this so easy to understand lol! SUBSCRIBED!!!
Haha lol thanks man! I'm really glad it helped!
Great Video!! Super helpful! Thank you!
Thanks! I'm glad it helped!
Yo congrats on the sub boost I can see 1k at least this year!
Thanks man! Yeah that'd be a pretty cool milestone!
Great tutorial!! Thanks!
You're welcome Hara! I'm glad it helped!
Nice Tutorial really helped
Thanks Will, I'm glad it did!
totally helpfull! thanx so much man im looking forward to see more!!!
Thanks TapaCG! I'm glad it helped!
Thank you so much for addressing common problems. I so appreciate it :))
Yeah no worries! I'm glad it helped!
thank you very much! I've tried to rig my character five times before and never succeeded. but this time it turned out well
That's awesome! I'm glad it helped!
Great video!
Thanks Denis! I'm glad it helped!
great explanation. thx!
Yeah no worries Korbinian!
Great tutorial
Thanks P6! Appreciate it
Such a great video! TY
Thanks J! Glad it helped!
My god that was great, man. Learned a lot. Thanks!
No worries Penguin! Glad it helped!
Wow Mr. I like your video very much and it is very helpful for me today, I am new in blender but now I am learning to rig for this. Your video is helpful for me your explanation is also very good. Thanks Again!
That's awesome! Blender is super fun! I'm glad the video helped you!
This was really helpful. Thank you.
Yeah no worries! I'm glad it helped!
Great video. Thanks
Yeah no worries Zen!
best video of rigging a character !
Thanks Eduardo!
Absolutely superb! Many thanks!
Yeah no worries! I'm glad it helped!
Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation, especially the errors which can arise. Great work. Thanks again😊
Yeah no worries, glad it helped! I hope your character is busting a move now.
@@RussellMidfield Actually, I finished it by watching various videos. Wish I found your video first😂
If you wanna have a look: instagram.com/p/CIrI3RGAQYt
Thats an awesome character, nice job!
@@RussellMidfield Thank you so much 🤩
excellent video, wait for the weigh map phase
Thanks Tufan! I'm glad it helped!
That was really really cool, thank you a lot 👌
Yeah no worries koglip! I'm glad if it helped!
Nice Tutorial!
Thanks Fan!