I'm a concept artist, storyboard artist and 3d animator who has recently fallen in love with Blender, and I've found this rigging tutorial as the best tutorial I've seen so far (and I've seen 20+ hrs of tutorials). The reasons why is because 1. you get straight to it. There's no self-indulgent waffle (BlenderGuru). But more so because 2. We can see your workflow. Suddenly parts of the massive print out of shortcut keys I have on my wall makes sense. How you mirrored a bone tree, how you used L for Linked Polys, etc, etc. And lastly 3. You spoke clearly and concisely. In fact, you have an excellent voice for tutorials. I found it to be a very easy half hour to listen to. Well done for creating an EXCELLENT tutorial. I very much look forward to Part 2. :) Keep up the great work.
This video was uploaded 6 years ago but still helped me today! I was trying to rig a robot with disconnected meshes and was struggling to parent the meshes with the armature and didn't wanna manually use weight painting. This video was just the solution I needed, thank you!
While part 2 may never come. this is the best basic rigging tutorial I have found so far. SO many others ether just don't talk at all which makes it super easy to miss steps. or they just give the tutorial while they work on something else so they spend more time distracted or rambling than teaching. or they rush through things assuming people are on the same terminology level and comfort level with the program they are. I know the terms, but most of my experience is in Lightwave and even then I have never been good with rigging. so it's nice to have someone who is not talking down to me or talking past me and actually taking the time to structure there content enough to talk to there audience
I like the way you explain things ..... also the speed of workflow ...... and of course the main parts and efficiency in setting up the armatures relative to the structure of the robot and tentacle - explaining why to use different parenting to the bones etc. As many people have requested - it would be nice to see a Part 2 ........ but I know myself what it is like ..... its a constant learning curve in blender as it seems to expand and change on a regular basis .........
I'm glad you think so! :D I will do my best to try to make more soon! I've been super busy on my main channel. But anyone and everyone is free to ask questions in my Discord!
I have to stop at the middle of the video to say, thank you so much for this tutorial!!! Love the way you demonstrate and explain everything. Simple and easy, clear and very understandable. I am a mess at rigging, you just saved me DILLONGOO!!!
GOOD TIP - When adding in locks and constraints on bone etc., always make sure 'display axes' is ticked in object/armature to show the local axis. You can quickly figure out then which axis needs to be targeted with a lock or a constraint. Always set bone display to x-ray as well, so you can see them at all times.
Thank you so much for this. Id recommend using screen cast for which keys you are pressing but you did very well to tell us everything you were doing . Very easy to follow along, straight to point. Great work.
This is great. Thanks, man! Really solid, clear approach. All the beginner videos that jump straight into humanoid walk cycles n sh!t are overwhelming.
Thanks so much; trying to rig non-humanoids for first time (after year of rigging and animating ONLY humanoids) finding it to be a real challenge of core fundamentals; very helpful refresher that kind of clears away all the mental clutter from relying on constraints and etc. etc. ... cause... once it ain't human... eets gonna eat ya BRAINZ!!! Cheers and thanks!
BEST OUTRO EVER! also, great tutorial, even touched on some things my teacher didnt get to ( i study game design, animation is of course a part of that)
Very clear and useful tutorial! Although English is not my native language, it is quite easy to understand. You take time to explain various stuffs and to show where controls are located within the very dense Blender UI. Keep the right way ! Now it is time for me to practice…
This was a really good tutorial with a nice pace and explanation, I was really hoping for Part 2, I wanted to learn about constraints and how to animate with physics. Let's say the tentacle moves and hits a bottle. Should I personally insert key-frames for the fall of the bottle? I guess I could do that but it won't feel very natural. Or lets say someone passes by a flower and I need the flower to sway back and forth a little. Do I animate the flower separately? Can I apply physics to it to solve the animation? How exactly do I do that? So many questions so few answers.
Very good and straightforward tutorial. It would have been awesome if you had provided the robot arm model to follow along. Waiting eagerly for part 2 for advanced stuff!
8 years later and I’m waiting for part 2 Awesome tutorial, I have been learning blender and this video even though it’s so old has helped me a lot, I didn’t understand weight painting and vertex groups at all till I watched this ❤️🔥❤️🔥
hahahaha the ending animations are priceless XD Anyway thanks for this tutorial! I've always been scared by blender but..I'm really beginning to re-evaluate it :) More tutotials like these would really be appreciated and if I may do a request.. an explanation/tutorial about good topology and rigging for RWBY-like character facial expressions would be AWESOME (I know it's a big request but..damn I'd pay for it! )
You could use the addon that shows de inputs you are using while you are doing your exercise, really clean explanations and useful ones. Keep the nice work flows :3.
Can't for the advanced one & the humanoid one! Great video! The ending credits... Just great man keep it up! Some constructive criticism - Not everyone knows how to clear pose rotation :P maybe annotate that? ALT + R. Anyway good stuff.
Great tutorial! How did you make the robot pick up the ball in the beginning? Did you have to use viewport/rendering restriction to swap it with another non-parented object, or is there some parenting toggling trickery somewhere I can't seem to figure out?
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4 years later: I'M STILL WAITING FOR PART 2
Please do part 2 coronavirus is killing me!
2 years later: I'M STILL WAITING FOR PART 2
yeah
Me too
now 3 years
hahaha, me too !!!
MHR 4
I'm a concept artist, storyboard artist and 3d animator who has recently fallen in love with Blender, and I've found this rigging tutorial as the best tutorial I've seen so far (and I've seen 20+ hrs of tutorials). The reasons why is because 1. you get straight to it. There's no self-indulgent waffle (BlenderGuru). But more so because 2. We can see your workflow. Suddenly parts of the massive print out of shortcut keys I have on my wall makes sense. How you mirrored a bone tree, how you used L for Linked Polys, etc, etc. And lastly 3. You spoke clearly and concisely. In fact, you have an excellent voice for tutorials. I found it to be a very easy half hour to listen to.
Well done for creating an EXCELLENT tutorial.
I very much look forward to Part 2. :)
Keep up the great work.
This video was uploaded 6 years ago but still helped me today! I was trying to rig a robot with disconnected meshes and was struggling to parent the meshes with the armature and didn't wanna manually use weight painting. This video was just the solution I needed, thank you!
Please do part 2, this was one of the best tutorials I've watched on blender. It wasn't boring, and it wasn't too long :)
While part 2 may never come. this is the best basic rigging tutorial I have found so far.
SO many others ether just don't talk at all which makes it super easy to miss steps. or they just give the tutorial while they work on something else so they spend more time distracted or rambling than teaching. or they rush through things assuming people are on the same terminology level and comfort level with the program they are.
I know the terms, but most of my experience is in Lightwave and even then I have never been good with rigging. so it's nice to have someone who is not talking down to me or talking past me and actually taking the time to structure there content enough to talk to there audience
4 years later: I'm still waiting for part 2... :I
pro trick : watch series at Kaldrostream. I've been using it for watching a lot of movies these days.
@Francis Braden Yea, have been using kaldroStream for months myself :D
I like the way you explain things ..... also the speed of workflow ...... and of course the main parts and efficiency in setting up the armatures relative to the structure of the robot and tentacle - explaining why to use different parenting to the bones etc.
As many people have requested - it would be nice to see a Part 2 ........ but I know myself what it is like ..... its a constant learning curve in blender as it seems to expand and change on a regular basis .........
Please make more tutorials! You're very good at teaching!
I'm glad you think so! :D I will do my best to try to make more soon! I've been super busy on my main channel. But anyone and everyone is free to ask questions in my Discord!
Finally found a video that talks about anything else than automatic weight! XD
Thanks u helped me solve a huge problem I had!
I have to stop at the middle of the video to say, thank you so much for this tutorial!!! Love the way you demonstrate and explain everything. Simple and easy, clear and very understandable. I am a mess at rigging, you just saved me DILLONGOO!!!
GOOD TIP - When adding in locks and constraints on bone etc., always make sure 'display axes' is ticked in object/armature to show the local axis. You can quickly figure out then which axis needs to be targeted with a lock or a constraint.
Always set bone display to x-ray as well, so you can see them at all times.
this is a perfect how to... if u're getting into the system it's great :) covers all the basic needs
Together with the beginners part the only really SIMPLE tutorial. Well done. Thanks a lot!
I I've been trying for probably a month to figure this out, and FINNALY a video like this pops up, thank you!
we are waiting for part 2
did part 2 ever come out?
@@why__die nope check the channel....
3 YEARS LATER: Still waiting for Part 2
Great tutorial! I wanted to learn the basics of rigging in Blender and now I have! Way to go. I look forward to the next tutorial!
10:23 You don't wanna bone your relative
+mebezaccraft sigh....have an upvote.
lmao
Im not gonna JUDGE you ;) im sorry. i dont know where i get OFF.
depends
Good one
Great tutorial. It's nice to see such an easy-to-follow explanation.
Thank you so much for this. Id recommend using screen cast for which keys you are pressing but you did very well to tell us everything you were doing . Very easy to follow along, straight to point. Great work.
This is great. Thanks, man! Really solid, clear approach. All the beginner videos that jump straight into humanoid walk cycles n sh!t are overwhelming.
hahaha 7:45 "lets go ahead and hit E Z.. which is very EASY" i think you didnt even intend to be funny
I agree haha loved this moment !!
Epic momeny
Thanks so much, really appreciate that you took the time to explain this so that everyone can understand and didnt just go over it quick.
Subscribed because it's the first vid I found to rig other things than characters.
Very nice....as a beginner I am always looking for good tutorials and those who can present them to my speed....thanks, you do both.
Thanks so much; trying to rig non-humanoids for first time (after year of rigging and animating ONLY humanoids) finding it to be a real challenge of core fundamentals; very helpful refresher that kind of clears away all the mental clutter from relying on constraints and etc. etc. ... cause... once it ain't human... eets gonna eat ya BRAINZ!!! Cheers and thanks!
You're very good at teaching. Two thumbs up. Thank you for the clear explanations. Of course we're waiting for part 2!
BEST
OUTRO
EVER!
also, great tutorial, even touched on some things my teacher didnt get to ( i study game design, animation is of course a part of that)
Very good info presented well.
Very clear and useful tutorial! Although English is not my native language, it is quite easy to understand. You take time to explain various stuffs and to show where controls are located within the very dense Blender UI. Keep the right way ! Now it is time for me to practice…
Rigging is actually pretty complicated... Thanks for the tutorial! :D
Best tutorial, simple, super well explained, very good pace, ... it would be great to see more like this
This was a really good tutorial with a nice pace and explanation, I was really hoping for Part 2, I wanted to learn about constraints and how to animate with physics. Let's say the tentacle moves and hits a bottle. Should I personally insert key-frames for the fall of the bottle? I guess I could do that but it won't feel very natural. Or lets say someone passes by a flower and I need the flower to sway back and forth a little. Do I animate the flower separately? Can I apply physics to it to solve the animation? How exactly do I do that? So many questions so few answers.
Very nice and easy to understand tutorial on rigging. thank you so much.
amazing material for begginers! thank you a lot!
man, I understand why rigging part 2 is taking so long. I had to go and research for myself after this and it gets soooooooo much for hard.
Thanks for the tutorial. Last part was very funny when the tenticle starts talking.
This is exactly what I need for my Golem, thanks!
Ohhh snap! Thanks for making this! Been trying to understand and get into it much better!
Part 1, GREAT !
Part 2, hopefully SOON !
Very good and straightforward tutorial. It would have been awesome if you had provided the robot arm model to follow along. Waiting eagerly for part 2 for advanced stuff!
8 years later and I’m waiting for part 2
Awesome tutorial, I have been learning blender and this video even though it’s so old has helped me a lot, I didn’t understand weight painting and vertex groups at all till I watched this ❤️🔥❤️🔥
Thank you for this, please part 2.
Thank you so much for this, you are the best at this I've come across so far.
Please keep making more!!!
This helped me actually get into animation, thanks!
hahahaha the ending animations are priceless XD
Anyway thanks for this tutorial!
I've always been scared by blender but..I'm really beginning to re-evaluate it :)
More tutotials like these would really be appreciated and if I may do a request.. an explanation/tutorial about good topology and rigging for RWBY-like character facial expressions would be AWESOME (I know it's a big request but..damn I'd pay for it! )
I appreciated this tutorial a lot, it gave me a good foothold and freed me from the broken rigify.
Pretty interesting I have some plans for blender so this is very helpful.
You could use the addon that shows de inputs you are using while you are doing your exercise, really clean explanations and useful ones. Keep the nice work flows :3.
Thank you, this is very clear and helpful! Please make more tutorials!
Please make more tutorials! You're very good at teaching!
This video helped me mentally, I mean mentally. I thank you so much.
thank you very much! finally, someone who goes trough the fundamentals... thank you, again ))
but... now I'd like to learn more! where's part 2?
Dude great video! Please make a pt 2
the best tutorial for Rigging... but I miss a Part 2, explaining more!
please do it or a Udemy Course about rigging your explanation are really good
Can't for the advanced one & the humanoid one! Great video! The ending credits... Just great man keep it up! Some constructive criticism - Not everyone knows how to clear pose rotation :P maybe annotate that? ALT + R. Anyway good stuff.
you THE MAN! ,THE LEGEND .Very good tutorial!
5 years later: I'M STILL WAITING FOR PART 2
Hi! It was just amazing, great way to let us learn useful rigging basics in a quick and clear way, thanks!
This is a fabulous tutorial. Thank you so much.
Extremely useful and dicatic tutorial. Thanks a lot! Looking forward for the advance one.
Great tutorial! Some teaching skills right here!
really nice tutorial!! part 2 plz!!!!
I FUCKING LOVE YOU DILLON
I've been looking for this kind of vid thank you
Very very useful! Thank you for all the time and work!
1980989898928982938 years later
Dies off without part 2 LMAO
I was Joking
Nice vid, thanks. I have putted the link in my rigging reference folder, where only very good tuts are assembled.
OMG thanks!!!!!! finally i know how to even make the mesh move with the bones.
where is part 2 :(
after 4 years...
22:22 "Tentacles are pretty Hentai". I dare say
Great video. Clearly explained, simply covered. Thanks for this.
THANK YOU! I was looking for something like this for so long
Its 2018 may. We are still waiting part 2 dude!!
G.O.A.T. rigging tutorial
Talking tentacle at 29:57 was great :)
where's part 2?
Not there yet.
Too bad, it seems he stopped making tutorials. I really liked this one
I cri evritym
No Posto Ipiranga
Dear dillongootoo,
Your guide are amazing!! But can you show how to combine the hard surface rigging with organic?
hee thats a great tuto amigo Dillongoo, thanks for your input !
The robot arm somehow brought 3DSMAX 5.0 memories into my mind.
Very good tutorial! Thumb up for you.
When part two?
Thanks for this! Please do more practical tutorials like this! Can't wait for part2. Also, how did you do the "ball catching" in your example?
Hey fam, hows that part 2 doing? Because this is the single best rigging tutorial on youtube.
Thanks for such a nice tutorial. Could you please make a tutorial on slingshot rigging?
i learned more in this 30 min video than watching like 15 different 1-hour videos
Great tutorial! How did you make the robot pick up the ball in the beginning? Did you have to use viewport/rendering restriction to swap it with another non-parented object, or is there some parenting toggling trickery somewhere I can't seem to figure out?
Wow this was really good thanks for the tutorial
Thanks, very nicely explained...
How come you didn't had any weight paint problem
Please after creating part 2 work on creating a tutorial on face rigging!
Thank you I just dont like why such tutorials are so rare;
almost all are about characters :/
respect ; and thanks again
Many Thanks. Super-clear explanations.
part 2 please~~~
Excellent video!
Thank you for a great tutorial
5 years later 😔
+1
Very helpful tutorial! :D
Super helpful , thanks!
It could be a good time for part 2 =)
BRO I NEED PART TWO!!!!!!!!!
Please do how to rig a cube from top, bottom and middle