Low Poly Character Rigging Tutorial in Blender 2.93 | Polygon Runway

[@pat.sambas]

I'm a zero and want to be a hero. Thank you for your tutorials!

[@hemanthsatyendravilluri4799]

It's super cool... But next time please make along with weight painting plzzz

[@taucher1945]

To all these who have problems when rigging the mesh which is offered by PolygonR.: I had massive problems with unwanted deformations after parenting the mesh to the rig. The solution: check the face normals of the mesh and recalculate them outside. After that rig and mesh work like a charm!

[@VM-sn4yp]

Thank you !

[@immersive_folder]

helped, thank you

[@ILLRICARDO]

more low poly character tutorials like this please!!! this is awesome

[@thePadlockesTech]

I've searched so many tutorials. Yours are by far the best on 3D modelling! The instructions are easy to understand and the results are as good as those overly complicated ones! That's why I signed up for your class a long time ago. Keep up the good work!

[@polygonrunway]

Thank you! So glad to hear that :)

[@PolyRocketMatt]

I'm really amazed by how simple you make this look. I'm just getting into blender and this tutorial uses so many actually non-beginner concepts but makes them feel that more intuitive! Thanks a lot!

[@polygonrunway]

Glad you like my content! :) I always try to make things more approachable than they look like :)

[@ashblue9888]

This filled in so many gaps of the character rigging and low poly modeling process for me. Can't wait to dive into your courses on Polygon Runway. Also in Blender 3.0 I think the character model normals are all inverted by default.

[@martabrejnakowska]

Literally the best tutorial ever. Thank you!!!

[@polygonrunway]

Glad you like it!

[@lohithsomasundaram2867]

I was just exprimenting a lot with light sabers and u post a tutorial.thanks a ton!!!!!

[@Alex-tn7pv]

Wait... you experiment with... lightsabers?

[@lohithsomasundaram2867]

@@Alex-tn7pv Lol

[@kmjgsdkmjgsd]

Thank you so much for this tutorial, you've been able to perfectly design a versatile great-looking low poly character past the modeling. Everyone just makes blank and round inflexible characters, but you're one of the only two creators to provide true customization. All I have to do now is figure out how to fully animate these characters...

[@polygonrunway]

Thank you! Glad you liked it :)

[@jakov1353]

Thank you so much for the free base meshes! Almost no one today is willing to give anything for free so you are truly making a difference in the community! Thanks again!

[@os6078]

Thank you for posting this tutorial!!

[@polygonrunway]

Enjoy ;)

[@naturelist]

Let's go!!! Love your tutorials. Go on!

[@NeO-yn2me]

this is what i exactly needed thank you bro 😍 😍

[@polygonrunway]

Great to hear that! Looking forward to see your work ;)

[@celmyguzman8972]

Amazing, this is all i was waiting for. Thank you

[@polygonrunway]

Enjoy and let me know if you'll try it ;)

[@thularaganegoda5609]

maaan, thank you so much! finally figured how to rig properly!

[@jakditstudio]

There it is 👍🏻

[@polygonrunway]

;)

[@Y4N970U]

If anyone's having trouble with the clothing warping around the area weird, make sure to select the object and press Shift-N in edit mode to recalculate the normals before using Alt+S as shown in the video.

[@berringervids]

Hey! I know the lighting is a tedious thing but it would be nice to hear what your thoughts are when you are working with it. Another superb video man! Great job!

[@polygonrunway]

Thank you! I should think about some lighting content probably :)

[@cory99998]

This helped me figure out a problem I was having, thanks man!

[@paulyd786]

AMAZING! Thank you!

[@peterrandall6761]

Even if I use the base charecter mesh you provide I always run into deformation issues, thanks for the tutorial tho!!

[@polygonrunway]

You can try adding more loop cuts near the joints

[@hpisti71]

Love your tutorials, your videos, but following along exactly should yield the same results. The mesh just keeps deforming, making the whole rig completely unusable. Not sure if it's some setting that's off, but giving up after two hours of tinkering. Shame, because the base mesh is really helpful, but I need to find another way of creating some poses.

[@unseenhaze]

I love your channel man, such great work brother

[@polygonrunway]

Thank you!

[@sudeepsingh933]

more tutorial like this please

[@jatinraj4974]

I love this channel. Precious content👌👌🤗

[@polygonrunway]

Thank you, mate! I really appreciate that 🙏💙

[@radhakrishnan6672]

Just now I was watching your commentary tutorials

[@polygonrunway]

Fresh supplies 😎

[@radhakrishnan6672]

@@polygonrunway Yep, Always!!

[@averywicks6892]

Very Dope tutorial and really easy to follow

[@polygonrunway]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ramonahammerl4791]

love your characters! Do you make customized characters for games? I am working on a low poly game.

[@jsgraphics9930]

Wow nice, i love Star Wars and Low Poly :)

[@qissthee]

Oh yeahhhh tutorialsss!

[@polygonrunway]

;)

[@blenderstuffs]

Amazing 😍

[@polygonrunway]

Thank you :)

[@stefanialaspalmas9773]

Can you do tutorial with that style but character on suit? please, your work is genius!

[@TheNiladrirocks]

Thank you ❤️

[@polygonrunway]

You're welcome ;)

[@billmolloy2264]

Excellent, many thanks

[@cyberlink824]

thanks for the free base mesh roman; plz Can you advise me a pc or laptops configuration for a minimum budget? to be able to continue working on 3d in blender and c4d?

[@bowkid1820]

Hey, when I press Alt + S, it doesn't scale along normals, can somebody help?

[@bowkid1820]

Guys, the issue here are probably the normals. By searching a bit, I could find the command "Shift + n" which recalculate the normals, so that should work for you too.

[@padraigtreanor]

Legend bro! Loosing my flipin mind hahaha

[@fpv_jesus]

This comment just saved my infant dog from being punted off a balcony.

[@fuzzyfps5644]

Thanks man, I was actually losing it

[@6piedi186]

@@bowkid1820 love you

[@sunny99179]

So to other assets follow your character like shoes and hair,you just set automatic weights right? no need to make ''transfer data'' ?? Great tutorial, for me its an high level class. i love your videos and i learn alot with your videos

[@TechnicalGFX]

Great video like always. I wish I can share a photo of what I’m working on because I ran into a problem that I don’t know how to fix. I made a panda character and after rigging it has this weird problem around the tummy after I bend the legs.

[@heymoon1569]

Hey! Thanks for your videos! You are awesome!

[@polygonrunway]

Glad you like it!

[@thunderstrike66]

love your tutorials, is there any chance you could do a cape super-hero tutorial like this Luke Skywalker one?

[@PhilStein721]

First of all, thank you so much for this tutorial and for providing us with the mesh. However, I followed your instructions and my character's left and right legs are somewhat connected when I move one of them, and so the pose gets stretchy. Could you please help me solving this issue? I am using the same low poly human mesh.

[@PhilStein721]

@mrfunnyskill try applying transformation and recalculating normals before generating the rig

[@StucWf]

Is the base model free? If so, where can I download it

[@joacollugdar6856]

Hi bro! really like you channel. I am trying to make characters for months and i cant even with your video. My problem is that when i put the rigs and ctrl P with the body or any other object and i move it with the pose mode, IT MOVES but deforms all the object and the skeleton its just stays in his place...its really disgusting for me because its always the same problem all thi time. Maybe you can know what the problem is. Please and Thank You!

[@alexanderkulaev541]

Hey, thank you for such a great tutorial! I wonder if you have a complete and narrated tutorial on creating a render like you did in an outro section of this video. Cause you demonstrated your workflow, but didn't explain it, and as I'm a newbie, I would need that explanation to understand what you do and to replicate it in my learning project. Perhaps you could give me some hints on that or maybe a link to your corresponding tutorial if you have it? Thank you!

[@polygonrunway]

Hey, the best place to learn how to render and present characters is here :) polygonrunway.com/p/3d-characters-and-illustrations

[@alexanderkulaev541]

@@polygonrunway Great, thank you!

[@kariimbenfraj05]

THANK YOU

[@polygonrunway]

You're welcome ;)

[@coder-c6961]

Amazing 👏

[@polygonrunway]

Thank you :)

[@tootc4680]

I've tried this almost 5 times, almost every time I had problems. I realized that my rig had no inverse kinematics despite following every step of your tutorial. Do you have any idea how to fix this?

[@tootc4680]

inverse kinematics like you*

[@KalponicGames]

easy solution use mixamo to rig xD

[@MileHiGuy95]

Do yo have a tutorial for making Ps2 quality levels? like hallways with repeating elements, and buildings

[@fritzfantom8161]

thanks

[@pvpsk]

help, at 9:40 I didn't understand what you did. I am trying to implement it for a project. The hair part especially is confusing for me. Please respond as soon as you can

[@thomascrozelon1648]

For those who have issues with the clothes deformation, I managed to make it work by creating clothes after I rigged my character. Probably not the best solution, but it works for me.

[@varadkalekar4754]

I am your super fan .l am seen your all videos you super cool 😎😎

[@polygonrunway]

Thank you! :)

[@Pokych_Adams]

Nice. Thank you!

[@polygonrunway]

;) You're welcome

[@chinmaymhapralkar6935]

when i click generate rig it is showing error. can somebody help

[@brittonkitten]

do you have a tutorial on how to make the human base mesh?

[@andrewwoan]

wow this is awesome! thanks so much !

[@polygonrunway]

Glad you like it. Will you try it?

[@andrewwoan]

@@polygonrunway absolutely will try!

[@q12team]

Sadly generate rig button is not working in 3.0 for me, cause it cant create rig without face bones. You cant delete any bones from metarig object :/ Dont see any similar comments, maybe i am missing something?

[@itsmerohan5259]

very useful video

[@polygonrunway]

Glad to hear that :)

[@thenotorious8382]

i have started self learning blender 3 months ago, I'm able to create simple look assets, but when it comes to creation of characters, animals and cars i always fail. I'm still trying to figure out what im doing wrong. :( btw nice video i like your way of working.

[@Marascrazy]

Do you have any idea why the finger bones won't apply to the mesh when generating the rig? Thanks!

[@polygonrunway]

Check normals and double geometry

[@Marascrazy]

@@polygonrunway I checked those, there wasn't any signs of duplicated geometry or messed up normals

[@HrafnNordhri]

Where you show how to check the direction of the normals. I've been using the option "face Orientation" which shows blue for good faces and red for flipped. Any benefit for one technique over the other or is this a case of Blender does everything in more than one way?

[@polygonrunway]

That one's quite fine as well. I just display normals in the overlay settings. But the color coding sounds great if you want to check dense model

[@HrafnNordhri]

@@polygonrunway I love that Blender has many ways to do one task. Thanks for all you are sharing.

[@mkarts-g5l]

Please do you have a tutorial on low poly car rigging

[@HandsomeDragon]

Is there a tutorial on how to model this character?

[@nathanaelteixeira]

Can I make a pet, already with the clothes grouped in it, and then rig it? it will be right?

[@polygonrunway]

Yep :)

[@harmeetsingh2378]

Big fan bro

[@polygonrunway]

Thank you! Much appreciated 💙🔥

[@harmeetsingh2378]

@@polygonrunway i can't believe u replied to me 😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏 thnks

[@notfrankie4987]

Thenx broo

[@polygonrunway]

;)

[@sandy-sj3ir]

Woah 0 dislike power of u

[@domin6168]

Glad I found this channel, thanks Roman ;D Btw. Sorry for my English

[@polygonrunway]

Glad you're here! Stay tuned for more videos :)

[@Gabiman66]

can i ise this method with unity, especially the rig part

[@heavywashere]

hEY! im new into blender and for some reason whenever i do alt+s to scale the clothing in the begining the lower part of the arm doesnt seem to scale right! does anyone know the solution to this?

[@polygonrunway]

make sure to recalculate normals first (SHIFT + N)

[@MsRaskauskas]

First of all, this is the first time I have watched a video and understood (or thought I understood)creating clothes and rigging a model. However I am totally stuck. I was able to symmetrize and create the rig( but no rig was visible after) , hide the meta rig but when I selected the body and rig and hit control + P there were only 3 options and automated weights not one of them. So I accidentally clicked envelope weights and now I have no rig and no controls so cannot pose my character . Any siggestions out there. I have searched for this but no similar issue can be found. I deleted the rig and went back to the meta rig and when I try to recreate the rig it tells me I have no arms because Upper Arm-L input to rig type must be a chain of at least 3 bones.

[@polygonrunway]

Sounds like a series of unfortunate mishaps so I would suggest a rest, clean up the mesh (remove all modifiers and vertex groups), create a new metarig and start over

[@nothingbuttamil8988]

Bro please enable captions (auto generated is much enough

[@polygonrunway]

They're enabled, just need to be processed

[@p.w.5813]

For some reason it just generates a much simpler rig when I press "generate rig" there is for example no control for the arms or legs. Someone know a solution?

[@destroyah3086]

don't know if its just me but for the first part , making the shirt , instead of separating the "shirt" I just "SHIFT+D" "RIGHT+CLICK" to leave in spot and "ALT+S" and it worked just the same even with rigging etc..all normal, Again I don't know if its just me or something. will update if any problems.

[@Marco-ck4jj]

press shift + N before

[@dablackwizards5312]

To anyone reading this, go to Polygon Runway's gumroad. He has all the tutorial models free on there!!

[@amadeusalerta5399]

I go to the site to download the Low Poly Model, but when I click on the download button, it does not download

[@szayel7692]

I don't know how to explain this and especially in English, does anyone know why when I have a character and I click side view grab the foot bone and move it forward so the character is standing on one leg with the other leg raised where it should be a 90 degree bend the character's knee bends outward? When I change to front view the foot is raised but the knee is very far out of the character to the side, where in the video the same movement and the knee stayed in its axis just lifted.

[@alimustopa8876]

hi i have a question, imagine i create a low poly character for my game just like you did. the question is, what i must do to make another asset look consistent with my character?

[@FiresAndFoxes]

THIS ^

[@MrHuntsPortfolio]

FYI: the male model (I didn't try the female) has the normals reversed, meaning the inside and outside of the model is not properly oriented, which has to be fixed before using. See: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXrFYoafg9V6o5Y

[@coder-c6961]

Hm i have a problem when using alt s on the arms/hands it does come out properly it is odd. Any suggestions?

[@Sebroy]

I had the same problem. I fixed it using this method: Before pressing Alt+S to scale the clothes, press Shift+N. This recalculates the normals. I'm just a beginner, so not sure why I had to do this, but it worked for me.

[@pethud]

Is low poly still worth it? Can I make money somehow with lowpoly? I do not know what to learn - lowpoly,highpoly .. I like both (but lowpoly is easier for me) :D

[@polygonrunway]

You can make money with any style, important thing is to do what you like and enjoy

[@pierriglebournault235]

alt + s makes the sleeves deformed to me, is that normal ?

[@polygonrunway]

no, but it has to do something with normals :) try selecting all and shift + N to recalculate, then try again that alt S

[@thomasread1697]

@@polygonrunway Thank you, this is exactly what I needed.

[@nelsondarkaen1134]

Can I turn this character in a avatar, .vrm?

[@kechuanren3830]

It's not available on Gumroad, tried so many times, still doesn't work. Here's the hint： "Your card was not charged. Please try again on a different browser and/or internet connection." even i tried with my card,still the same, Has anyone been in my situation？

[@fire7side]

I couldn't download the basemesh.

[@HrafnNordhri]

Love this! Was hoping your Knightrider was on gumroad :D Would you consider doing a low poly classic Ninja Turtle scene?

[@polygonrunway]

That's a nice idea! THanks :)

[@HrafnNordhri]

@@polygonrunway So would I follow simialr techniques to what you show here to do say, Captain Picard or other Trek folks?

[@gauravidesigns]

Easiest way : export the character as fbx and rig it using mixamo . Then import it in blender

[@kjduncan1]

Can you download the base rig from Mixamo? I thought it would rig it then you can only download baked animations?

[@heykuze]

texture exporting?

[@Felgnox]

Activo..!!!! 🔥🔥👀

[@polygonrunway]

;)

[@nameisone]

I can't download human base mesh TwT

[@Marco-ck4jj]

For some reason, after assigning automatic weights, it won't let me move anything. The foot just gets stretched :(

[@polygonrunway]

Did you calculate the normals?

[@Marco-ck4jj]

@@polygonrunway Don't think so. I'll try again, but should I "recalculate outside" or "recalculate inside"?

[@makifff]

19:00

[@shamit3045]

Loved the tutorial and followed it and it was perfect ❤️🙌🏼hope u see my work , will post it soon on my pagee

[@hobi_mcnd]

how do i draw a face on it.

[@VSystem_]

my alt + s its kinda buggy.. anyone knows of to help with that? :(

[@VSystem_]

nvm i fix it

[@ruk3d]

Я правильно понял что надо одежду в один меш с телом, тогда надо ли убирать внутренности из под одежды?

[@polygonrunway]

Yes, you would need to extrude clothes from the body mesh, or connect it somehow

[@ruk3d]

@@polygonrunway Thanks

[@revanthdatta1216]

Is blendar available for iPad ?

[@polygonrunway]

No

[@am3lialily]

8:11

[@EnchikO]

Proč mi přijde, že zní jak čech :D. Jinak dobré video :)

[@polygonrunway]

Slovák. A vďaka ;)

[@revanthdatta1216]

Is blender free app

[@polygonrunway]

Yes, go to blender.org to download for free

[@revanthdatta1216]

@@polygonrunway Can I download in Mac for free