Easily Rig A Simple Character (Blender 2.91 Tutorial)

[@FruitZeus]

Thanks for tuning into the series! If you made it this far, just want to give you a special shout-out for watching through the whole process! And congrats if this if your first jump into 3D character animation! I am happy to be alongside you for the ride. Please feel free to stick around for a while, and leave a comment let me know what you’d like to see more of! I have many ideas for blender content going forward. Very excited to see what the future has in store for the channel!

[@HeinerS]

Just wanted to thank you again for this excellent tutorial. I have started to work with Blender about 6 weeks ago and I could follow without problems (except for very few instances, but I always could work out what was going on). Should you be interested to see the result, here a short turn-around on my YT channel (since I don't have Instagram): kzbin.info/www/bejne/pp_coHqZmp6BeK8

[@kyle_nagy]

You’re the MAN! Whole series was awesome, you don’t know how long I wanted to learn how to make something like this. Hopefully I’ll get some time to make something half decent & show ya. Thanks for all the amazing tips. Road to 100k!

[@FruitZeus]

Appreciate you, Kyle! I'm happy to share my knowledge on Blender and 3D Art! More videos coming soon! Glad to have you along the ride of the road to 100k

[@mcandler_the_unscottish]

Thank you Sensei for doing a whole series in ust 3 quick to the point videos. This is an entire course on some paid tutorials sites that takes days. You knocked it out in minutes without missing a step. You are a awesome tutor. Well done mate!

[@krodri4]

Wow!! I watched your series and learned SO much! You are an amazing teacher. I've been working in blender for quite sometime now and the process you use is so straight forward and very easy to follow. I picked up so many useful hints and can't thank you enough, So many things I've tried to figured out you've cleared up for me. THANK YOU!!

[@kellyjohnson768]

Zeus, how do you create the different facial emotions like sadness, jow, pain, rage.....etc....do you just use the shape keys into custom properties method?

[@FruitZeus]

Exactly! You can do just that! 😄

[@loudertv8676]

Thanks fruit zeus. I still watch this video as a guide for rigging 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@traderwannabe]

sorry im new to this thing...i love to learn way long long time ago ...but only now that i have found your helpful channel for my desire...thank you

[@nurul2335]

That last driver copy paste trick was just WOW..!! THANKs FOR SHARE THAT ❤️

[@itayozari6252]

Thank you so much for the tutorials I really enjoyed following you while you created the character For me it is about jumping into the water, trying to make short videos and learn the basics. I would love it if you could expand on the benefits of auto rig pro, in addition, if you are looking for an idea of how to continue the series, I would love if you could do a tutorial that explains how to make a character speak and make some basic expressions. Thank you!

[@renderartist]

Thanks man, learning about ARP and Rigify, trying to figure what's best for what and how to use it. This video series really pointed out a lot of things I was curious about, like the custom parameters, blend shapes and linking. Thanks! Subscribed.

[@needler1000]

so precise, so clear, fantastic thanks from an old man

[@Patrick-Seth]

you got a new fan, love your video

[@irol1100]

Great explanation to rigging! Love the simple driver approach. 👍🏼

[@Leva_135]

really cool tutorial, nice way to link the shape keys to propertys. good tutorial series thanks for share

[@FruitZeus]

I love linking them that way! It makes it very easy!

[@johndeggendorf7826]

Simon Bam! Massive Thanks for doing this series, bro...super thorough & packed with the essentials. I just downloaded AutoRig Pro as a work saver. But I really like the possibilities with shape keys. Everything you’ve covered so far is very useful. As soon as I stop tripping over my newbie shoelaces I’ll send you some stuff. Outstanding content...I hope you go far. ✊🍺🎩🎩🎩

[@FruitZeus]

Super glad this helped out!! I will continue to keep moving forward and making more content. I have a lot of new stuff coming soon!

[@destructorestelargalactico7345]

Thank you !! 8:54 I was wondering why my eyes, ears, eyelashes, eyebrows, whatever was a separated object... would not follow the head of my model... and I had been checking many bigger youtubers without find this explained, or at least I was not able to understand how to do it until now. Was using the automathic weights to parent all, and getting very confusing results

[@sahanravidu7795]

Nicely done ! keep it up

[@ST-tx7kq]

Hi! I have a question. When I move the head, the eyebrows stay in one place while the hair slowly peels back. both are part of the same object. Could u recommend how to solve it pls

[@nickfai9301]

Awesoem.... Thanks for your effort.

[@Kiriluss]

Thanks for this amazing tutorial! It helps me so much to run my blender skills up! Keep on sharing your wonderful experience!

[@infokubarcade]

I learnt so much. Very profesionnal tutorial. Thanks you.

[@sonavijapure2668]

you are an amazing man I have learned so many new things from your tutorial thanks, man.

[@breezstudio9630]

cool tips for shape key custom properties!

[@owenlloyd2528]

Thank you. (I know that as at the time of this comment this is over 2 years old but man I learned a lot of tricks and techniques. So thanks.)

[@FruitZeus]

So much of the same stuff still applies! Haha

[@mattmettaljus]

The eye brows are not moving with the rig but they are part of the mesh object that is moving? Is this something I can recalculate? (update: not sure what I did but I fixed with Weight Painting. No more rebellious eye brows)

[@traderwannabe]

is blender version 3.0.1 the same UI set-up with this 2.91? I mean up to the smallest details ? they are literally the same ryt?

[@TECHFIVER]

Nice video...... Please make a video for lipsync how to do in easy way..... Without shape key

[@3DToonss]

Yes

[@TECHFIVER]

@@3DToonss thanks for comment actually no need right now i have done it 😊😊

[@timoneri8812]

Very good tutorial ... thanks so much! 👍

[@Kimb4000]

This was great! Exactly what I needed!

[@JustCurious-ou6gn]

Thank you so much. I created my first character while I uses this as a guideline. So helpful. You have a new subscriber. One question tho. I made the hair with a nurbspath and a circle. However when I use ctrl p and select with automatic weights.. The hair won't move with the head and everything else. Just like your ears and eyes which you corrected. I tried the same but it didn't work for me. Is it because I made the hair differently? How can I fix this? Right now I made the hair convert to mesh and patented it to the body.is that an idea? I wanted to check it out but when I do the same as you: parent it to automatic weights. But then the face changes of my character. How can I fix this?

[@kliegstudio]

loved it..too good..keep going 👍

[@evanstential]

This tutorial is awesome! I come here all the time when I need to rig my figures! Could you do a detailed video on how to rig?

[@FruitZeus]

Yeah I’ll get more into character stuff on the channel.

[@GiveMeSigns]

Another great video my friend! Question everything is working fine but for some reason my characters eyebrows aren’t moving with the rig. The eyebrows and body are part of the same object(can go into edit mode and both are editable they looked joined but are still moving separately from the rig.. Any ideas how to fix that?

[@FruitZeus]

Great question. Sometimes the weight painting doesn’t calculate perfectly. Select the eye brows and go into edit mode, then go to the vertex groups, then assign the eye brows to the “Head” group. All the bone weights are controlled by vertex group. So basically find whatever bone you want them attached to, and there will be a vertex group reflecting the same naming convention as the bones. Just assign those vertices with 100% weight to that vertex group.

[@GiveMeSigns]

@@FruitZeus you are the man!! Thank you! By far my favorite Jedi master blender teacher yet ! These are helping me get my characters fleshed out from 2D , so appreciate your teaching style

[@FruitZeus]

You’re very welcome!!

[@loudertv8676]

Love this. 💯🎯 I'm just having issues with unwanted parts of my mesh moving. For example, when I move the right arm rig the entire face moves also. I tried weight paint but that doesn't work either. 🤔🙏🏾 suggestions anyone

[@teacherone9636]

Very nice you're really great

[@romain4520]

Thank you for this series which suits me perfectly for what I want to do! however, do you show how to "attach" material to the character to make the material follow with the character? (helmet, tools, ..) thank you again!

[@FruitZeus]

This might be a suitable topic for one bonus video maybe? 🤔 Nevertheless, it’s quite simple. For a helmet, use the same method I showed for attaching eyes and ears just parent to a specific bone. For holdables such as weapons or phones or pencils, do the same except parent it to the hand bone! For an added bonus, under the constraints tab for the object you want to hold, you can add a “Child Of” constraint, target the armature first, then the specific bone “hand.R” or something. This works the same way except now you have the influence slider which works as a toggle off / on for holding and dropping an item! 🤘

[@romain4520]

@@FruitZeus how to render a transparent background in blender

[@FruitZeus]

Render settings > Film drop down > Transparent

[@romain4520]

@@FruitZeus I will watch this at the moment! and will tell you if I block!

[@Brax_animation]

this is great, man. Thanks

[@bagasprakoso7224]

WOW I LOVE YOUR TUTORIAL...I LOVE IT

[@HeinerS]

I'm currently implementing this shape key/custom properties/drivers combination. One thing I discovered is that you can do that across different objects. Example: My eye-brows are separate objects from the main face. It is possible to drive an eye-brow shape key through a main face custom property. That way I have access to all shape keys through the custom properties of the main face, even though brows, eyes, lids and pupils all are separate objects with their according shape keys. Perhaps well known, if not it might be of help to somebody.

[@kotynaksiezycu]

THANK YOU :) I've decided to buy autorig pro after watching this.

[@matheusvicent7]

[@playproduction8853]

Hej maaaay! It took an evening, but I've finally completed it. You're a great teacher, also a cool person as far as I can tell. You're aura can't lie. Keep up a great job! Also, you need a better microphone with some sort of dinamics and clipping "preventer". Well, next stop - > SUBSCRIPTION. Thnx for everything!

Rigify gives error, something with spine 004 bone.

[@ajibolafagebo3176]

Please can you make a mouth rig for Simon so he will be ready for lip sync animation. I know you did a tutorial on clay/stop motion mouth rig but pleaseeee can you make a full tutorial on mouth rigging ( P.S: Without time lapsing any part. Thank you sir.

[@sarodesh]

Keep going ahead!

[@MahlosGames]

face rig continued?

[@santoshgujar5237]

Thank you, Sir, 🙏🌺😇

[@blenderzone5446]

like it bro!

[@FruitZeus]

Thank you! Glad to help out!

[@hamzahshuaib4528]

Bam, awesome series. Will show you my results on IG

[@closethumper]

Thanks my dude!

[@3DToonss]

Hey Bro ! Simons mouth is not closed properly.

[@graphicfanta2167]

Great!

[@TK-uo7cb]

great vid!

[@needler1000]

you're the man! Thank you

[@cgcatz1008]

thank you bro，very helpful！

[@FruitZeus]

You're very welcome! Sub for more Blender Videos (:

[@alltypeknowledge4803]

hi sir, please make a drawing of indian woman character in blender with rig ...please help sir

[@peacefulmusic9631]

Thanks bro

[@mfiuza.2232]

Thank you 🙏🏽

[@kaliatrendvlogs]

This character lipsyns please

[@_Mr.S_]

not working bro

[@TranPhin549]

I dоwnloaded everything is okay

[@karmandahmed]

𝔾𝕠𝕠𝕕 𝕛𝕠𝕓 ✔︎

[@3DToonss]

Thanks bro