Blender PitchiPoy Rig 2.74

[@davidcripps3011]

5 years later and this tutorial is still useful even on Blender 2.82 :-)

[@WeirdDave]

I've been using the basic rigs that get imported into Blender via .dae format from Daz. It works and is simple to get started on the basics of rigging but I was intimidated by some of the complex rigs I've seen for professional work. So I grudged along until I had enough. I want to say thank you for the tutorial and freeing up my time and opening many possibilities.

[@donmack8878]

Great tutorial! Many thanks.

[@hman2912]

Awesome tutorial. Thanks

[@fluidfox1436]

thank you for taking the time to go through this.

[@mcprocrastinator7921]

Great vid this covered of a couple of things i was having issues with. Thanks.

[@thechallenger6124]

i advise you to turn your mic up , i have my pc and youtube sound on max and at times could not here you , your the only one that explains it all so i figured you would be best to learn from for rigging

[@wassim.halawani]

Thank you very much. Great job.

[@fandy-tahubuletproduction6693]

great tuts buddy, God bless u :)

[@umiiumii]

+D'zoOM Production Thanks :)

[@zapfsaeule2]

Thanks a lot! Very helpful tutorial:)

[@cassandrayathrin4534]

thanks sir, you help a lot

[@jamieedgington7958]

I'm fairly new to Blender and gotta say your tutorial got me through where nobody else's did, I flipped my freakin fruit loops when it all worked ! thankyou ! now it's how the bleddy ell do I pose this thing lol minor differences in 2.79 still the fruit loops went awol

[@theintrnationlst]

Very good tutorial, very useful. Much better than the one from Pitchy Poy.

[@dhstar0914]

Question. I am stuck at the parenting mesh 1) 1:00:42 I cannot see weight paint mode. I already did rigify buttons and hit ctrl+p for amarture deform. How can I do that? 2) 1:00:36 I cannot also find that spanner icon. All I have is human body icon and bone icon. Is that an addon? 3) 1:01:39 And therefore, I cannot find "weight" tab on bottom left corner. Also, is there anyway I can scale them up all? I am trying to make Source Filmmaker model and scale should be at least 30~40. However, rig bones don't follow the scale. Please Please help me out. I am totally new to Blender

[@PaulSgrillo]

When you want to select multiple bone ends that are not joined but need to move together try using the "C" hot key shortcut. You might find it easier than shift and multiple clicks.

[@umiiumii]

Thanks Paul, I use that with mesh all the time never thought to use it with bones, will see if I like it :-)

[@daanimegoatman6683]

Are there any restraints that keep the rig from stretching out beyond the mesh's limits? Basically having limbs move like a real person.

[@terrydavidmullins]

Do you have any advice on how to gen the pitchpoy rig to work with manuel bastioni labs character mesh?

[@tairaphillip4841]

Hey,is there away to delete the arm FK bones completely coz the arms stretch when i export character to unity

[@masterofdie]

It would be easier (and far more preciesly) you switch to edit mode of the mesh, select the joint and move the cursor to selected. Switch back to the rig and snap to cursor. Repeat this for every joint and for every finger and you will get a perfect rig.

[@fluidfox1436]

Good advise!

[@psynema]

Would you know how to turn off IK for the hands? It's not in the n,t, or bone controls like normal. Also elbow and knee targets aren't there, is there a different process for that?

[@ashwinnandihalli3961]

Can we rig quadruped with this set up?

[@umutfarukUE]

Hi, i did click to "With Automatic Weights", but blender cant do this. Can you help me? Error: "Bone heat weighting: failed to find solution for one or more bones"

[@jmhastings0]

The mesh you're trying to apply it to isn't all connected, most likely.

[@tairaphillip4841]

Thanks for the great tutorial. My question is ,why do i get a lot of bones on my "Scenes Window View" on the right after generating the rig? am i supposed to drag all the bones under "Rig" coz nothing seems to be parented under it.Thanks. And another question is that, if i have more than one mesh,say shirt,pants,shoes,hat,body,,,,,,should i join all the meshes to make one mesh,or i can still weight paint each mesh and the rig will work just fine.THANKS A LOT.

[@NATURUNATURYU]

Help please! I have generated and the metarig doesn't follow the rig. What I'm doing wrong?

[@edsa0601]

Once the rig is generated, you don't need the original metarig! Throw it away or, better, transfer it to another layer

[@NATURUNATURYU]

Yes, I have learned that. Thanks But, wait... when you say "through it away" means I can even delete the Metarig without affect my new generated rig?

[@fantasyart-3d]

Thank you very much, Mark. It was the only useful Pitchipoy tutorial I've found here. I've just had some troubles with the pivot point of the jaw, it looked like out of place and the jaw went back when opening. I edited the bone but the mouth was naturally opened at x = 0º. I adjusted the jaw_master to a negative value and redefined the rest pose. Now it's ok. For rigging with clothes, what's the workflow here? Do I keep the body and apply the automatic weights to the clothes, too?

[@seraphthepirate3671]

Thanks for the great video, but ive tried 6 different times and now, when i generate the mesh it automatically parents and the eyes appear put side the mesh. If i manually move them back the dont rotate from the center but rather rotate outside the mesh. I was making great progress, now i just want to give up, can anyone point me the dirstion of a fix? Thanks in advance

[@RoyalteaVT]

I've had trouble with the eye rig. The eyes follow vertically, but when I move the control left or right the respective eye moves back inside the head, or protrude out the mesh.

[@umiiumii]

+Laeh Tana Hi Laeh, the eye is just parented directly to the bone and will rotate around the root of the bone. So as long as your eye is spherical you need to put the root of the bone in the center and the tip in the middle of the eye, you can see me doing that here kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZPGm597fchsl7M if that does not work drop me a message with the blend file and I'll have a quick look for you.

[@westyfu]

So, no matter how many times I rig using this Pichi rig, the eyes ALWAYS come out wrong, the control bone is never straight, and the eye lids move the opposite direction to the eyes... still hunting for an animation rig with actual working eyes...

[@diepdang8001]

Hi, do you share your blend files?! I'm very tks!

[@WeirdDave]

I hope you can tell me why I can't append a Pitchipoy character into a new scene. Blender just crashes. I'm looking around also. Just hoping you could save me a little. Thanks!

[@WeirdDave]

Blender 2.78 nightly build fixes the problem.

[@thechallenger6124]

you gotta remember rigging is finicky ,ya gotta do everything just right and then it still might not work , next time this happens try adding the mesh with the already adjusted rig without rigifying it then doing your task , i hope this helps!

[@nv7287]

excellent tutorial with some really great tips thanks for the effort in making such a great video :) Also...is it possible to delete bones without destroying script/rig? (for instance I have characters with three fingers + thumb) and while editing how are you hiding the bones,? cheers :D

[@blenderratt3692]

haven't watched the video yet but after trying to put a pitchpoy rig on a makehuman character last night I have to see this. Every time I went to bind the mesh to the rig the mesh went all loopy. I have to do a lot of rescaling because the meshes are so much bigger that the rig. I really hope that there is a solution in your tutorial. It like the rig seem very promising & I really want to succeed at this, that would mean the world to me.

[@eviltwin2322]

32:04 Make mine a 99! Don't worry if you don't understand that, you need to be British! 😆

[@ZioMarietto]

1:13:45

[@blenderratt3692]

I just can't seem to get the pitchpoy rig to work with my makehuman characters. I hope that someone can find a solution because the rig is awesome and I really want to use it in my production.

[@thechallenger6124]

when im finished with my female rig ill help you out , for a favor :D

[@briant444]

i cant view a lot of the things you get. unfortuntely you dont say which keys your pressing. also u mumble a lot. dont get me wrong its still a good tutorial.