Inverse Kinematics - Blender 2.80 Fundamentals

[@runforitman]

I love how much this guy sounds like a genuine tutorial youtuber instead of a corporate guy who doesn't really want to be doing this Makes it much more enjoyable

[@lucutes2936]

@@flingstone1510 he just wants likes

[@davidmullins8961]

didn't they hire dillongoo to make them?

[@DodaGarcia]

Right?? He's so fun to listen to

[@DexieTheSheep]

Blender is free and open source, people work for the project because they like it.

[@trafficconememes331]

i thought it was blender guru or something until i looked down

[@likhith-lexus]

I laughed so hard watching those arm movements and now I'm almost crying thinking how hard it is to apply

[@imbroke6354]

Yes it is

[@thepriyanshow9273]

Hey brother. I'm Priyanshu from Rajasthan, India. I need little help with my blender project. If you know the rigging well... Please let me know. I want a brushless motor to be rigged. Will wait for your reply 😄😄

[@desperbamboo]

@@thepriyanshow9273 keep on waiting bud…

[@aortaplatinum]

Simulated paradoxes and cyclic dependencies are so goddamn funny, just the computer or program absolutely shitting itself

[@Prajwal____]

@@thepriyanshow9273 still waiting??

[@Crashsune]

these tutorials are so well made! SO glad they actually explain why you do what you do!

[@aaronschneider1581]

Just what I was going to write. I very much agree

[@God-yb2cg]

And don't try to sell you non-free addons like some "tutorials" on youtube.

[@creativohugo]

ditto, I love tutorials that explain their reasoning in a concise way

[@saiyampramod]

The "That's it" at the end of the video made this sound like a piece of cake :')

[@swishfish8858]

I mean, it is though. Pretty straight-forward stuff.

[@techscopereviews]

@@swishfish8858 5:35 man sounds like he is explaining quantum physics

[@Gredran]

@@techscopereviews He's using simple words and referencing of parent relationships, which IS very basic. If that sounds like quantum physics to you then you definitely don't have a mind for this right now haha.

[@Ryan-wx8of]

@@Gredran Quantum physics is also explained using simple words and references. It's just a matter of knowing what those words mean. In order to use this it seems like you need an in depth understanding of how of the program handles bones. You'll have to forgive us for our ignorance.

[@alisahbaz4359]

your explaining is so great that I felt like I could take on disney single-handedly until I got to this episode. Humbled me real quick

[@joelstolarski2244]

Old thread resurrection. Started learning Fusion 360, and wanted to do sculpting. Now learning blender concurrently. Whole series is humbling. On the bright side, now when I design on Fusion 360, it all seems so easy. Bad side is I feel like I've just played multiplayer BF3 for 2 day marathon.

[@mikey1gb]

You know, at first I thought it was ridiculous when the guy said "...except that it doesn't work!" But after going off script a couple times on my own, when something doesn't look right, I think back to what he did to fix it. I really like how this tutorial works. It doesn't just teach you how to do it; it shows you what can go wrong and how to navigate all those principles to the right result.

[@andarted]

I love when tutorial are going step by step and also doing mistakes. It's like a quick release of the information, and than immediately releasing a couple of day one patches. Instead of postpone the whole information till its without flaws, but also till I have forgotten half of the input.

[@splittinghares2750]

So glad this tutorial also shows certain common mistakes and explains what went wrong! It makes it so much easier to translate the knowledge into my own projects. I don't like tutorials that only show you how to do it right, because if what I want to do is even slightly different from what the tutorial is for, I risk making horrendous mistakes and have no clue how to fix them.

[@user-kw9cu]

Everybody gangsta till u get to IK

[@mrlebeyatg8312]

I've watched the video 5 times already 😭😭😭

[@user-jt5vm3mi1w]

What a mess

[@YGODueltainer]

after watching so many tutorials stil ldont get how to rig a Dragons

[@lucutes2936]

it's not really hard as you think if you experiment with it

[@STeaK00]

LMAO xD

[@peterkassab6572]

This is the kind of tutorial that everyone should watch before everything else, its a shame that youtube only recommend weird stuffs in the first time. Thanks Dillon Gu for this incridible tutorial.

[@-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.-]

This is the best Blender IK tutorial out there. They're not just telling you how. They're telling you why. And it's not overly complicated or long.

I deleted the cube, now what?

[@EliaForce1984ita]

Make a new one!

[@sardoreto]

What I usually do is, I close the blender app and reopen it, and boom there will be a cube

[@namngoinh733]

@@sardoreto Just Ctr + N, it'll save your time

[@timothykimari8154]

hide the lamp and the Camera ..haha

[@TheKafaniKirarim]

Ctrl + z is always there buddy.

[@OgatRamastef]

Now this video is the first really complex in this series! I´ll need to watch more times to get everything.

[@KalodexD]

Tip: Instead of using the "copy location" constraint use "Copy transform" to be able to scale and rotate at once

[@AhmedHan]

Other tutorials just give you the steps, but don't tell you the reason behind them. You have just explained everything in a very smooth way along with the logic behind them. I appreciate this video very much.

[@onesandzeroes]

Thanks for your best attempts to explain all of this. But we need Captain Disillusion to make fun of this system :)

[@nibblrrr7124]

IDK, Dillon's explanation of manual IK reminded me a lot of the Captain's material workflow rant already? :D Basically every step is like "Except _now,_ [ m o r e p r o b l e m s ] because _you_ weren't paying attention & forgot to do [tedious non-obvious step that seems kinda hacky]." But yeah, something in between the auto-IK checkbox and that manual setup process would sure be nice - though IDK if such a thing is even possible.

[@forrestgump2114]

a 9 minutes video took me hours to complete and follow along, "that's it" I felt such a relief when you said it, thank you for the supper compressed tutorial.

[@mrwolfyer]

Kinda late comment, but these tutorials are one of THE BEST. The narrator doesn't sound "corporate" and the tutorial itself is actually INCREDIBLE! I was having difficulties trying to learn IK rigging and the video actually EXPLAINED why X decision should be made instead of just saying "Do X, do Y, now you have what you want." Cheers!

[@wasgehtsiedasan3093]

Dont mind me, just some timestamps for me to get back to. And thanks for the great tutorial 1:42 3:08 4:09 4:30 6:28 7:57 9:13

[@netyimeni169]

never expected tutorials from software itself to be enjoyable. nice job blender.

[@DiggoryJiggory]

When I saw him move that hand and it took the entire arm, I was left in awe... Thank you Blender for the amazing video

[@syntax_3rr0r]

Goodness this is like the best IK tutorial ever, really well explained. Never really understood rigging setups like this till now!

[@cwgochris71]

I am enjoying the encyclopedia immensely. I have never seen a teacher incorporate common mistakes into their teaching. This is a real master move, since we learn by making mistakes. And mistakes happen all the time when working in 3D. Whoever put this together, I salute and thank you!

[@ptysme]

I like how you cover all the potential issues new users will likely comes across before they happen. Saves a lot of head scratching, thanks!

[@Grimeaper]

You finally spoke my language. You gave me the who and why. I now can IK rig you did something that no other IK tutorial has yet do congrats. Basically control and limiter per se.

[@BestemmieDraconiche]

I Can never get over how incredible this whole tutorial is.

[@jamesblueking9720]

i remember watching countless videos abt how to use blender when i was 13/14 everything was so convoluted in blender back in 2014/15 now it`s a cake walk imo.

[@giociasico]

I was fast phasing through all the tutorials until I get to this part. I have to rewatch this tutorial a few times.

[@tsarbamba642]

this tutorial is so good. there's another tutorial out there on basic rigging that i'm sure a lot of you have seen and were immensely confused by. this video actually explains why these things work the way they do. incredible. i feel like i totally understand what IK is and how it works now.

[@KsNewSpace]

What I like to do is to create a path on which I animate an empty to travel from 0 up in Z direction for as long I want my animation to last. Now I add drivers to the rotation copying the value of the empty to the bone in world space. When I now bend the path the bone will move accordingly as long as the empty follows the curve. This way I have always full control over the movement without messing with keyframes at all. I can just tweak the curve in 2D space until I'm happy with the result. It's pretty much a hand made graph editor that is a lot more powerful!

[@Imacuser223]

8:45 - No wonder I was having trouble with the bones not bending. This tutorial really covered my IK issues. Thanks!

[@LowLevelLemmy]

This tutorial is amazing. Taught me the fundamentals and the trial and error behind creating IK. Rather then just walk through a check list

[@queworldwow6262]

OH. MY. GOD. I HAVE NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE HOW MUCH I LOVE YOUR VIDEO! After so many months of searching the solution for crazy moving rig I've finally found this video, thank you so much 😭😭😭

[@DarkSwordsman]

I usually get annoyed when a tutorial spends too long explaining, however, the fact that you showed each step THEN what could go wrong or what needs to be done next to solve a problem with each step is incredibly helpful.

[@Froggo_kek]

you should honestly thank me since i will probably rewatch this video 2000 times in my lifetime and thats like 8 bucks in ad revenue

[@nityaaa]

i dont know why but at 2:20 when the arm raises and bounces its so cute. i almost couldnt resist waving back at it lol

[@grim8285]

Thanks for the slow yet brief break down, really helped out a lot!

[@SaifBinAdhed]

I keep remembering Michael from Vsauce everytime you say "except that it is not rotating" or whatever the case may be, and I go in my head.. "Or is it?" looool. Thank you for the video.

[@serijas737]

Like Neo has to go to the source, I too had to go to the Blender Channel to finally understand IK. Thanks man, you explained every error that can happen and build the IK up step by step, it's perfect.

[@v.s.a3826]

I saw many talking in videos about IK but I never knew what they were talking about when I searched in google it gave me some words which I don't know about, but now I know it, great explanation. Any beginner can understand it.

[@joelstolarski2244]

So cool. Now I know how my video game characters work. Since starting learning 3d , no energy left for gaming, or anything else.

[@leafarnou9272]

There's so many parts I this tutorial where it's like "he got us in the first half"

[@ChaojianZhang]

Honestly, this is the only video that actually makes sense on the topic!

[@BlackbodyEconomics]

Let me get this straight ... 1. Parent forearm to hand 2. add IK const. to forearm and point to the hand 3. disconnect hand from forearm, but keep it parented 4. change chain length to 2 (or whatever for what you're working on) 5. unparent the hand from the forearm 6. then reparent hand to forearm 7. duplicate the hand 8. unparent the duplicate 9. change forearm's constraint to point to the new duplicate hand 10. add copy_rotation constraint to the hand bone to copy the hand_IK bone 11. enlarge or custom shape hand_IK bone for easy identification (optional) 12. Duplicate hand_IK bone and move it behind the elbow as a reference for proper bending 13. Set the rig as the forearm's pole-target in the IK options 14. Set "behind elbow" bone as the pole-target bone 15. Slightly bend the elbow backwards in edit mode to give it a push in the right direction 16. Set pole angle value until the elbow points in the correct direction Ya man - totes simps ... *rolls eyes*

[@animatrix1490]

5:03 I nearly coughed up a lung laughing at this few seconds, my GOSH

[@Erathia6666]

Did you live through the experience?

[@chromosoze]

@@Erathia6666 no he died that's why he wrote it _after_

[@nedomenya739]

me too)

[@animatrix1490]

@@Erathia6666 sadly i did die

[@Sk4lli]

Very good explanation! It's not only explaining how to do, but also why (my biggest gripe with most tutorials is, they don't actually teach much). Easy to follow and actually understand how to work with that feature.

[@sungyupchung8447]

Important, You must watch this video now. If you didn't you waste your time as i did. Awesome This is a very clear explanation.

[@mamacrow2759]

I just made my own IK rig, but here's the spin!~ Each arm is a separate object, like how the N64 would animate for example. Very cool!

[@michaelsohnen6526]

Hi. In blender 3 I was able to fix the stretching problem by unchecking "stretch" in the kinematic constraint options. Just a tip for blender 3 users that might stumble by this video when googling.

[@jehriko7525]

blender you guys are AWESOME! I don't know if i would have gotten into or even known about animation had you guys and your brilliant software and simple tutorials not existed

[@mhattaran]

I was about to cry with IK. This video saved me and made my day. Thank you.

[@mjagustin9638]

I was finding some ik tutorials with the rig on it since the one I saw just messed up my things entirely, and I am so happy this one did not~

[@tapendrashahi2097]

This video is so clear and concise that I instinctively hit the like button. Props to the tutorial maker. Thank you so much.

[@sseymour1978]

In Blender 3.0.0 When disconnected "Hand" bone (In my case it was foot) I lost armature - mesh distort capability/relation. Had to remove parent bone armature completely and reassign parent (without automatic weights, because I did not want to loose weight painting). I had some strange flakiness already before with this rather simple setup however when I added "Knee" bone as per another tutorial.

[@vrombo]

That's obviously best IK tutorial out there, also made with 2.80! Thanks a lot for sharing exact knowledge, w/o mumbles and shamanic dance around the user corpse.

[@lolypopmaster11]

very informative and easily understandable, witch is a lot compaired to any other blender tutorial

[@da_cat]

I was wondering who made this precise yet short tutorial ... official Blender :D thx guys, awesome

[@SolarGranulation]

Clear and straight to the point, just what I like in a tutorial!

[@DodaGarcia]

The voiceover is so entertaining!

[@utkarshtripathi6663]

2:09 wait so you mean ive been moving my arms wrong all this time?

[@thefatwhiteelephant1350]

this is what i love about blender. great free tutorials. Not some paywall and having to go through hundreds of terrible ones that somone shot with a potato and left the mic off, then other clowns trying to get you to download some dodgey python script.

[@nothingnothing3211]

Wow! Thanks man for explaining the rigs with the reason behind their working so easily.

[@SuthernZero]

Great way to understanding rigging. Great tutorial 👍

[@vizdotlife]

Super helpful and exactly what I was looking for, thank you

[@illoprin]

Thanks! This tutorial really helped me with animation the model for my game.

Great. Step by step, easily. Valuable to learn this "atomic" modelling procedure.

[@agitated_cat]

"it correctly influences only the forearm." the forearm: 5:04 *W I B B L E*

[@redsquirrelstudio6018]

These videos are very helpful! I've been planning a Animated Series and I'm using Blender, so these videos are great!

[@PedroVencore]

dont worry, inverse kinematics cant hurt you Inverse kinematics: hold my beer

[@widearchshark3981]

IK's were confusing to me. Not any more. Thank you so much for this.

[@caffeineaddict1602]

Thank you so much. It is explained so well and in a way where you know you can also use it for legs

[@tomkiptom]

Thanks! this really speed things up.. have been moving bones individually :P

[@MrPetschko]

Ah thats what the angle is for - my mirrored inverse kinematics always pointed to the opposite direction... thanks to you i know how to fix it - just turn the "pole angle" by 180 degrees - and boom it works^^

[@namename2674]

Please make a IK/FK switch tutorial

[@theguardiancustode3962]

i remember when i made my first 3d model in my animation class in high school, and when i was learning about armature, it was well, don't really remember, but i remember seeing a picture and that picture showed these extra bones floating around the character, and i think i would see something about guide bones, but i don't know all i know is that it was confusing

[@voyageruk2002]

It's not best practice to change the roll angle. Although it works the right way is to view the axis of the bones and line them up correctly leaving roll angle at 0.

[@PraxisVisuals]

This helped me complete my very first character model! Thank you for including a very helpful video!

[@not_herobrine3752]

5:49 the rising tesnion made me lol

[@markzaikov456]

It feels like watching a stand up comedian while still learning about Inverse Kinematics

[@carmelazabala]

I love the way these are done!! So informational AND entertaining!

[@hiiambarney4489]

I've mentioned before that the narrator sounds a bit like "Redmercy" from youtube. However the case, this narrator is just GOLD.

[@dalulu418]

Remington you mean? :) Yeah, I agree this was very well made.

[@snythesly]

by the end I just expected him to keep saying "exceeept" after each step and the video to continue infinitely

[@silverstarling6207]

Thanks for this IK tutorial. This is great and clear. Blender team - you are the best!

[@michaos1]

This is so funny. Makes the complex thing not complex at all. And the scenario is exactly if I were to figure it out myself.

[@nuskett4379]

I swear that hand wave at 2:30 made me burst in laugh

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

there is no arm base rig??? only these ones Ball Ball (tail) Ball (legs) Pendulum Sky Sky (armless) Sky (continuous mesh, variation created for the Blender Fundamentals series)

[@rajasreedebnath2017]

Fantastic video. Thank you Michael, You have inspired to get into soft editing and videos soft design too.

[@animatrix1490]

Thank you so much, I keep coming back to this video in order to remember how the heck to do ik :P

[@denisnevesdearaujo8768]

This tutorial is just what I was looking for. Thanks so much!

[@harsshavardhankannan7608]

Thank You You Are A BLENDER GOD

[@gaston.]

Thanks for the info!! aye caramba, blender needs to work on this... overly complicated!!

[@curtisyue182]

Thanks a million; This looks like it'll make animating less tedious.

[@pb_sandwhich]

It’s actually very useful for characters with a long neck! (Eg The Teacher from Little Nightmares 2.)

[@rlocatellidigital]

High rate of tips per minute in this video! Thank you!

[@-Junx-]

thanks all i had to do was listen and i got it down in like 2 trys

[@TigreDemon]

"the forearm is pointing to the hand but the hand is parented to the forearm this means that when the hand moves the forearm will try to point to the hand but if the forearm moves to point to the hand ... the hand will have to move because it's parented to the forearm thus moving the hand further which will move the forearm further to point to the hand, which will move the hand further because it's parented, which will move the forearm to point to the hand etc etc, this is called a cyclic dependency ..."

[@alidan]

some of these things, where there is an obvious problem with how things work seem like a simple toggle to tell it to work a different way while still working the same would be better

[@LucasAlmeida-fx6eb]

I LOVE HIS WAY TO EXPLAIN!!!!! Thank you!

[@oncuozgonul]

5:56 "You need to calm down man!" Lol

[@HuanLeVuong]

rigging examples in tutorials always look fun :V