How to Setup Arm IK Rigging (Blender Tutorial)

[@RyanKingArt]

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[@JTG2003]

Great tutorial! Note: In Blender 4 the default keymap for scaling the b bone visual is shift+ctrl+alt+s

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for sharing!

[@its3amagain.]

took me some time to realize that I am not the problem 🤣🤐

[@erickanimations7315]

THANK YOU! This video came at the most PERFECT time for me. I got stuck last night trying to set up IK for a project and as soon as I turned on my PC to work on it, this video popped up in my sub feed. Everything worked perfectly and your extra tips, including the Copy Rotation constraint, are truly appreciated. Thanks again!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it helped!!

[@its3amagain.]

Fun fact: I tried 3 different tutorials and this was the only one that worked for me. Thank you!!!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it helped!

[@alexkt3400]

Thanks so much for this, after trying to do a literal translation of how it worked in 3ds max to blender by trial and error I was exhausted. Your tutorials are always legit

[@RyanKingArt]

glad it helped

[@dylanmercergo7853]

Hello! So the Pole thing doesn't work for me. It just rotates the bones entirely and doesn't do the result in the video and my bones are just stuck and not doing anything even though I already set the chain length. Help?

[@MrProuknow17]

For me, this was an issue of my forearm and upper arm bones being perfectly in line. I added a slight angle change to the elbow joint in edit mode (not in pose mode, added an angle on the actual bones), which fixed the issue of them locking up no matter where I moved the wrist bone.

[@josemolina992]

@@MrProuknow17 Man, I've been dealing with this for hours. Thank you so so much for taking me out of madness

[@HanSolocambo]

Most clear tutorial of the kind I've seen so far. Really well explained thanks. P.S: Instead of Alt+G, Alt+R, Alt+S, just do Shift+A to reset selected bone(s) in Pose Mode.

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for the tip!

[@mandarinskin3952]

for the bone visual resize, you can use ctrl+shift+alt+s which worked for me

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for sharing 👍‍

[@sugoidxth]

absolutely LOVELY, clean, precise and concise

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad you liked it!

[@kadeyray7222]

These tutorials are a huge help🔥🔥🔥

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad to hear that. Thanks!

[@stardusty]

Your teaching style is so clear and concise. Thank you.

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome!

[@slimescholar3571]

Thank you so much! This video saved me a whole day's worth of pain

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it helped!

[@mesarena5408]

Thanks slot Ryan you are the best, I was really struggling to rig an arm after watching this video I have successfully rigged it.

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it helped!

[@James-qe8lu]

Thank you for so detailed instuctions of Arm -IK. It really helps beginers like me. THANK YOU.

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful! 👍‍ thanks for watching.

[@PizzaScientistYT]

I have a question about setting up the splice IK constraint. I'm using Blender 3.4 . I can't select my armature as the target or any of the armature in my scene. There is no option to select anything so I'm kind of stuck on what to do.

[@bannnz]

one of the best tutorials for the subject so far. however i do have one question; is it possible for the wrist IK to not detatch from the hand when moved a bit too far..?

[@M.L.M.]

You are the best! Thanks for all your help!

[@RyanKingArt]

you're very welcome!

[@dotanon]

I tried doing IK with empties earlier and one of the arms was flailing around like it was demonically possessed so I'm definitely going to do this method later, your method looks pretty logical.

[@RyanKingArt]

hope the video helps.

[@dreamofmaizie]

I tried this and it works fine but the problem i have is with the elbow. It rotates fine but it wont bend. How do i get it to bend? Edit: if youre supposed to make it bend using the wrist, I understand that, but when I try to make it bend with the wrist, it seems it bends at the shoulder instead.

[@smokedmeatx]

Try bending the elbow joint a bit in edit mode, that's what worked for me :)

[@shakaama]

wish I could give you money to support you. you're fantastic.

[@RyanKingArt]

Thank you! No worries if your not able to. Liking, commenting, subscribing, and all that really helps me out too! 🙂

[@s0l0striker5]

Just so you guys know if your arm is really stiff after adding a pole target it's because you need to make the elbow slightly bent, otherwise it doesn't know where the bend in the rig is!

[@NoVIcE_Source]

thank you)

[@RyanKingArt]

you're welcome!

[@samilhuseynov8359]

i love you bro ,i need job at 3d . like freelancer

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for watching! I currently don't take any freelance work.

[@samilhuseynov8359]

Yes .l understand bro , l have one question you , how more improve yourself in this job? I wanna lessons step by step for learning. What do you think?

[@isobeldesantisx]

Great tutorial, thank you! I wish I could save it to a playlist but there's no option to do that :(

[@RyanKingArt]

if you click on the 3 dots under the video, you can save to a playlist. youtube just updated there user interface

[@isobeldesantisx]

Thank you! @@RyanKingArt

[@MxDsigN]

In my case the pole vector did not differ in a 9ß degree manner. Porobably thats the reason you said "usually". This might not be a big problem but I would like to know how I can fix that exactly (not by eye measure). Thank you

[@toonlegacystudios8529]

I need a little help, so I did everything said in the video, and after putting the IK together, the elbow doesn't want to bend, the leg tutorial worked perfectly, but I'm not sure why the arms are a bit different, I tried moving the arms without the elbow in the IK modifier, it bend the arm, then I added the elbow, it doesn't bend anymore besides moving around like a minecraft arm, is there anything I'm doing wrong?

[@s0l0striker5]

so you need to go to edit mode, then make a little bend in the elbow, after that, it should bend normally!

[@Imran400e]

i need advance character rigging tutorial.... doesn't matter how long that tutorial will be so please make it also

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for the tutorial request.

[@clashroriyt]

when i save it, the IK doesnt save with it when i import the model back into blender, what do i do to save the IK?

[@RodrigoM]

YES!

[@RyanKingArt]

Thank you!

[@Dr.Wombat]

I don't understand, I setup my IK just as he did in the video and my elbow on my character doesn't bend or move. It only bends when the chain length is at 1, but when the value is 2 it only moves my shoulder and rotates my entire arm. If anyone knows how to fix this, please let me know!

[@CobayaNeon]

I have a modeled spider, I want to move its body, and not its legs, but the root bone is the one that controls the body, and when I move it, the entire model moves me, I can't get the ik to move only the torso/body without the legs, any advice?

[@ronyoshii]

I'm not sure this will help but I was fighting for an answer for like a year and couldn't get anything to work even though I was following step by step. In the top right there's an options drop down that had a box checked that said affect only locations. Once I turned it off, I was able to finally start posing.

[@ronyoshii]

also maybe chain length?

[@richardhan8360]

hey bro i got your channel and its amazing your video about the rigging model. so can you please showing how can rigging all fingers for hands?

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for the tutorial request. 👍‍

[@richardhan8360]

@@RyanKingArt all good bro no worries waiting for that have a good one😀

[@SlightKetchup18]

I cannot pair the mesh and the bones. Any fixes?

[@hozannkotiet6561]

Thank You too much.,

[@RyanKingArt]

You are welcome!

[@KittyunderBoBo]

One of my charactars arms is flailing around kinda crazy rn??? can someone help?

[@wap2005]

so, why does my model drop into this uoside down surf dude pose when i set the target armature

[@RyanKingArt]

Umm I'm not sure. hard to know what the problem is when I cant see what its doing

[@wap2005]

@@RyanKingArt just imagine the character doing a skateboard trick

[@narwhaleyep]

Im doing it but the arm is a cube so the cube gets deformed... please help

[@dreamofmaizie]

me too 😭

[@Diablokiller999]

@@dreamofmaizie Click on the IK Bone, then on the bone to the right and uncheck "deform". He's showing it at 15:20. Maybe this helps?

[@dreamofmaizie]

@@Diablokiller999 Thanks for the advice but I gave up already ☠️

[@kenzietownsend6644]

I followed this twice and can't get the wrist to move. Next.

[@RyanKingArt]

Did you add the copy rotation constraint?

[@kenzietownsend6644]

@@RyanKingArt I will try it again thank you. I have a problem with parent relationships. I felt like I was close

[@Luiz-ob5fm]

👍

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks!

[@jimihuixiao7073]

WHY ISN'T AUTO WEIGHT WORKING!!!!

[@IzzySnoor]

manually do it yourself

[@Kato-ee2pc]

this too much foir me

[@RyanKingArt]

ahh sorry about that.