Full Robot Rig - Part 1: Deform Bones | Rigging For Animation

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This is the first video in a longer series where I'll go through my process for creating this robot rig. One of the key features of this rig will be a IK FK switch.
In this video, we'll review how I make the deform bones, the foundation of this rig.
Let me know if you have any questions in the comment below!
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[@LevelPixelLevel]

Full View Series Is Now Up: kzbin.info/aero/PLbjn7kaP877v6ByHd-fgek3kOmUYFOzR0

[@neail5466]

one of the most complete rigging tutorials, You could have simply overlooked the movement and locking axis as those are the most basic part, and no one going to rig without knowing these. Thank you for being an excellent teacher. Thanks and respect. +1

[@LevelPixelLevel]

Thank you :) Glad you are enjoying the series!

[@trentriley3645]

This is legit the thing i come back to everytime i need to remember what im doing as a learner for rigging. Thank you!

[@JzE_3d]

Man the way you explained this is easy to understand to people unfamiliarized with these concepts, thanks you for taking the time to do it. I used to see armatures really hard to comprehend but now they seem easy, it's gonna be really useful for my robot project

[@LevelPixelLevel]

Thank you! Glad you found it helpful :)

[@hashman63]

Such lessons should have every beginner rigger. I look forward to continuing!

[@Gorffage]

I bought a rigging tutorial from FlippedNormals and it wasn't as helpful as this. Thank you so much for making these videos and for making them accessible to anyone. This is helping me so much as I figure out what I am trying to learn/do with my own robot project.

[@LevelPixelLevel]

Wow! Thank you, I'm glad it helped with your project! Share a link with me whenever you have it finished 😊

[@valentineskin9523]

Thank you for these series, really well explained for someone who never touched blender before.

[@LevelPixelLevel]

Glad you liked it!

[@lodgechant]

What a fantastically clear tutorial. You've got a great teaching voice - calm and encouraging! Many thanks for all these resources. With greetings from Cape Town!

[@Machiya007]

Like the fact that it is ABOUT rigging -- i.e. useful knowledge. Very helpful.

[@Olandgreenwood]

Thats really very important tutorials! Ceep it going!

[@PonteRyuurui]

ace stuff, mate, pure gold!

[@Leafyfpv]

your curser to selection, selection to cursor seems to really help workflow, great hints throughout the video. Props!

[@LevelPixelLevel]

Thank you! Yeah, it is a technique I use all the time!

[@henkkok9437]

oh brother, another of these amazing series. Fantastic. Looking forward to watching this one

[@rocknets]

Thanks for doing this series. I'm only part way through but already i can see that you have done a great job in explaining this topic.

[@LevelPixelLevel]

Thank you!

[@astralfilms6814]

Thank you very much for your clear infos & effort. One of the best tutoria about rigging so far. learned alot.

[@agentdunstone9176]

Hey thank you a ton. This tutorial is a lifesaver as I was dying to figure out hard surface rigging with a pivoting body. Just know this was really appreciated.

[@LevelPixelLevel]

Thank you! Glad it was helpful!

[@alkoraver]

you are splendid!

[@lukasallenbaugh4728]

Thank you, your lessons are very thorough and clear. Really appreciate the work you put into these.

[@2bit8bytes]

Wonderful. Great narration on the go.

[@lucaivaldi4520]

Thank you for having published this. I find the change in brightness to highlight focus distracting. Anyway, great content!

[@ChristopherHemsworthCreative]

You are a rigging master as I have always said. Here is a question for you that man not be easily answered, which is okay, but here it is: do you ever run into situations where you want to go back and edit your model AFTER it's been rigged? Is that an annoying and problematic process? Does it impact the bone parenting? Is it an easier situation with hardsurface where there are no weights assigned? Woops, that was a billion questions, I guess. Sorry!

[@LevelPixelLevel]

Hey, good question, if you are editing a model with a deform modifier it might be a bit of work to fix after the rigging process, you might have to move around bones to get new pivot locations. If you are using bone parenting you only have to unparent the mesh, make the changes, and then parent these pieces again. That being said I usually do this as I rig. I'll find problems in the model once I start rigging that I'll fix on the fly. The rig in this case is just a means for animation, a tool for the movement. Hard surfacing is a bit easier as I mentioned because you're just unparenting and parenting. Usually, I'll build the entire deform rig before adding any controls just to test everything out, almost like a blocking rig. Once I have this I'll run the model through some tests. As this is an early stage it is a great time to make changes to the model or rig before I add higher-level mechanics.

[@ChristopherHemsworthCreative]

@@LevelPixelLevel thanks first of all for taking the time to reply, and for the depth of your answer. I think i see what you mean. I think i have to get over a fear of unparenting and reparenting, and just get used to maybe doing what you said... testing and adjusting on the fly (with hardsurface, like you say). Thanks again!

[@evanlane1690]

This is really helpful! I was looking for a good hard model rigging series. Subbed.

[@LevelPixelLevel]

Right on! Let me know what you think once you've tried it!

[@evanlane1690]

@@LevelPixelLevel I actually forgot I commented on this series. Dude... I come back to this every time I rig a hard surface model. Super helpful, especially when I only rig stuff infrequently. Thanks again! Still great content years later.

[@zaider200]

Thanks, this helped me a lot with a project.

[@MasaakiCh]

Thanks for this video! It was very helpful and easy to follow-up!

[@WaterShowsProd]

I wish I'd found this series a little sooner. I'm pretty sure it would have saved my walls from being barraged by several hundred swear words.

[@dudex104]

Awesome tutorial, thanks for sharing

[@LevelPixelLevel]

Thanks, glad you liked it :)

[@Silverdragon-dg7fj]

Yes! Thank you so much! I am a FNaF fan and I sculpted an OC and since it’s a robot I couldn’t just use automatic weights because it was a robot, thank you so much for this!

[@SekaiNoMaster]

"its not tutorial" . proceed to give out a very specific step-by-step instruction and explainations. thanks dude!

[@LevelPixelLevel]

Thanks :)

[@LVC85costa]

so much info man. Thanks

[@gaspargonzalez3305]

Thanks! it really helped with my project, 10/10

[@dariospinelli6800]

excellent work

[@calogiga]

Thanks for sharing all these informations.

[@indrakomara6966]

Thanks...cool explanations...

[@heejoonshin4223]

I recognize the robot from a old flash game I played, is the design based off of supermechs?

[@LevelPixelLevel]

Hmm I'm not sure haha, probably inspired by it, I might have picked up an image or two in my reference search.

[@alexchazavi8244]

This is one of my favorite youtube channels!!! Only one question, how can i make an ik/fk snap like the riggify but for our custom rigs i really apreciate that

[@LevelPixelLevel]

Thank you! For this series, we will be looking at an ik fk switch. In the future, I can talk about how to make a snapping function.

[@filipefenner]

When I rotate the bone in pose mode it deforms my mesh, do you know how to fix this problem?

[@silentwraith3464]

How do you have those colors in solid mode? 😅

[@LevelPixelLevel]

You can adjust this by using the viewport color under the shader. www.levelpixellevel.com/uploads/1/1/7/8/117873610/viewport-color_orig.png

[@silentwraith3464]

@@LevelPixelLevel thanks man! And great videos! :D

[@h4ziroshi]

Thanks!

[@gower1973]

Why is there so many permutations of the transformation and how do you know which is the right one

[@LevelPixelLevel]

Is there a specific time in the video you are referring to?

[@dampsz1]

JASSS

[@LizaStricka]

Gold

[@bowdy4952]

Is this method gonna translate well to unreal engine? I have a playable robot character that should not deform

[@marcosonio]

Why did he connect every single bone to the root bone?

[@incridablekarthi228]

Can u do one for human character it will be really helpful,there tutorials there but from you it will be totally different and will be informative.just a basic character :)

[@LevelPixelLevel]

I'm getting there, I can't promise on an exact date, but hopefully soon I can have some more organic rigging tutorials up.

[@incridablekarthi228]

@@LevelPixelLevel that sounds good,as you have coverd many robotic, would blove to c organic :) btw where to DM u?

[@LevelPixelLevel]

@@incridablekarthi228 You can send me a message from my contact form here: www.levelpixellevel.com/work-with-us.html

[@alexanderg8466]

Why you put 001 in the names?

[@LevelPixelLevel]

Hey - late reply, but that is Blenders internal naming. Here's a longer description: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5CuhXyVjcyIrdk

[@alexanderg8466]

​@@LevelPixelLevel hey thanks for doing that :). Btw I thought that It was useless to write 001 because blender gives you the default number and it was a waste of time. And still wanted to know if there is something beyond that (just curiosity) But I get your point. Thanks again:)

[@dimiodufote4010]

Kindly provide me the next video for programing for manchine learning using rig blender like a simulate. From Mrs d i needed for my project please.

[@dimiodufote4010]

Using free spyder(anaconda3)

[@LevelPixelLevel]

Hi, I actually do not do any work with machine learning, although I'm sure there are tons of resources out there of people working with machine learning and blender!

[@rewindproductions7261]

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[@syntax_error6882]

i cannot be the 666 like sorry ..