Tentacle rigging in Blender - Complex rig for complex animation

Learn how to create an advanced tentacle rig in Blender with IK controllers and bone tweakers that can work in game engines.
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00:00 intro
00:29 Noara’s Rigs overview
02:33 “Simple” Tentacle rig
06:12 Advanced IK rig
11:20 Controlling the BBone chain
16:08 Make it works for games
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[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

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[@michaelwerkov3438]

god DAMN i love that you are in this world.

[@ChernobylComedyAndWings]

No

[@Nano.virus.2.0]

Dont give Up, we are almost done!! Killed me. Im in a second day trying to finish a 26 bone robotic tentacle.. tomorrow could be the day

[@Eridian757]

Your rigging course was easily the best thing I’ve found for animation Pierrick. Love your content dude, ty so much and keep it up.

[@fittyyen]

Oh boy I'm looking forward to wrapping my brain around this. I'm slowly working my way through art of effective rigging but I think I'm getting it. It's so much complicated front loaded work but it's neat to work through.

[@soirema]

i bought your rigging course a while ago, I still use it and go back to it, you are the best rigger i have ever seen, and a wonderful human being for sharing all this

[@kkgaminPC]

This is one of the most complex rig i have ever seen!! Great work Pierrick Thanks for the awesome knowledge.

[@w.a.l.l.a.c.e.]

Your work is such an inspiration, I can’t wait to try your rigging course over the winter break

[@krysidian]

Thank you so much, you give such great insight to rigging and animation for blender that I simply cannot find anywhere else. And this is a great way to bake bendy bones animation for game engines!

[@MrTalixx]

I love your animation courses. I bought the Alive course and I am working my way through it. I enjoy all your videos, Amazing!

[@jadonmullinex9389]

This is SO packed full of useful tips for rigging! Perrick you've made it so fun to learn rigging and I'm really enjoying your full courses 🦑🐙

[@rrahll]

Thanks Pierrick! As always awesome tutorials!

[@MelvilleG]

Thank you so much. Recently spent a week trying to make a bendy appendage rig and thought that was tedious. After your lesson on this tentacle - I see what is REALLY tedious. If someone says to me that a rig can be done automatically nowadays - I will show them your video.

[@gonderage]

It's quite an involved tutorial, and I don't think I'll need a rig like this in the foreseeable future, but it is such an interesting set up with BBones, which I havent used before! 🦑

[@sultanthe2nd]

Thanks for making this, its like you read my mind! I was quite sad to hear in the previous video that you had a low budget for this production... because with your expertise and fountain of knowledge, I really hope you are being payed well! But once again, thank you so much! 🦄🐙

[@mszczesnik]

Love your tutorials Pierrick!

[@WaterShowsProd]

That controller to drive the Ease-In is a very interesting idea. I can see that woud be quite useful.

[@10weslleynereu]

Amazing technique! I would never know what this armature constraint does - so nice! Thanks for all good information!

[@whatTheblue]

Seriously!! This guy is the best on market (and this is no exaggeration) ❤️❤️

[@OkaminoShikon]

Geez your video always makes me surprised how much i dont know about Rigging XD Great video THX!♥

[@ryanpxl]

Genius Level Rigging! 🐙 I've never seen anyone use the Armature Constraint before.

[@MeinCouch123]

Really amazing rig, I'm a bit taken aback by the amount of bones in it, but I'll take it slowly

[@ozvasquez3891]

Such an amazing tutorial, thank you so much. I'm working on animating a snake but most tutorials use a curve to animate the snake. I want to create a snake that's hovering in the air, like a Chinese dragon and this tutorial is the perfect thing. I'm gonna watch it a bunch of times till I get it right. 🎉 I'll tag you when I upload my snake video.

[@choo_choo_]

Finally, someone posting Blender tuts that actually knows their shit and works in actual productions. It gets a bit hard to follow at times (especially with the accent, and the CC is a bit off at times), but there's enough there to get the main idea if you've been around the block a bit and have dabbled in rigging.

[@ChernobylComedyAndWings]

I'm intermediating a headache.

[@PhoniczKidBubz]

Incredible stuff 🦑

[@thesaviorofsouls5210]

You are absolutely amazing dude, thank you so much

[@nostolgiagore]

this tutorial took years out of my life, thank you so much!

[@nostolgiagore]

Also how do I parent this rig to mesh?

[@user-sk3ef2ny3l]

당신은 정말 좋은 설명을 해주는 선생님입니다, 감사합니다! - You are a very good teacher who explains well, thank you!

[@krazyton1380]

Your work is mind blowing. 🔥

[@juanmarcos4636]

this is gold thank you very much!

[@nahuelgees1186]

very good ! keep going!

[@AlexPiotrowski]

Thank you! Hope to learn more from you!

[@Micromation]

After this I fully expect for some tentacle action to start sprouting on the HUB 😂👌

[@RoshAnim1985]

You have a great knowledge of rigging and animation in Blender. Thanks, it was helpful! will buy your course soon.

[@RoshAnim1985]

what if we have multiple tentacles and we want to animate them with fewer controls or together (like jellyfish tentacles), could be helpful if you made tut on the same

[@dominomaniac2342]

Incredible Tail/Tentacle Rig! Perfect level of complexity I was looking for 💯 And while it may LOOK daunting at first, the speed and the way you explained the process made it really approachable 🫶 (I also loved your video about the quadruped Leg Rig)

[@StriderWolf]

🦑 your rigging tutorials are the best

[@Agvart28]

Wow!! 🤯 it was a lot but very well explained and broken down! Love your work!!! Thank you!!

[@ChernobylComedyAndWings]

Well explained?

[@anandhg4286]

Perfect!..As usual..Pierrick!

[@shankark3250]

Thanx....waiting for this episode

[@janzivocky1142]

Excellent :D

[@kolupsy]

Oh my god 😳🐙 what did I just witness? That’s insane!

[@animation_skillmovie]

Thank you for your lessons . You are a very good teacher and everything is very clear. Whereas others explain things in a very unclear way, people have different logic :). You are the best teacher. Thank you for everything you do. Someday I would love to cooperate with you. You are wonderful.

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Thanks for your kind words

[@AhmadHassan-hg3tf]

awesome tutorial bit complex but covers alot

[@MrEmilable]

🐙🦑 I have been jawing this for Neck rigging no Joke, works really good for that.

[@Jimpouski]

Pierric really rules!! 🦑 Really, thanks for this tutorial 🐙

[@leongachuiri3626]

🐙 I love how you teach

[@daanp4135]

yea this looks mega intense 😂 This is far from what I am able to do right now. Although the spine/tail/chain video helped a little bit but I made mine very VERY basic lol

[@dampsz1]

Oh nice, I did not know I can add armature constrain and drive them using bendy bones !!! :O

[@venomtang]

amazing

[@UncleTiaoTiao]

great~

[@artsiom.savelyeu]

Wow! ❤️🔥🦾

[@Burnzs]

this is crazy

[@ba4ebar]

genius!

[@Kruku666]

rly solid work i still rely on riggify most of the times but this as much as you can get out of blender ;) this is the 100% control way XD was wondering is it more or less convenient compared to other apps max maya ect ?

[@quincy3d69]

Excellent tutorial ! it is also interesting for Cartoon Character Rigging maybe you want to at this keywords to this video ( Bendy Limbs / Rubber-hose / Toon rigging )

[@VitusPolikarpusSM]

I like this tutorial

[@stevegoodman4290]

I've been writing a script to automate this; will soon hit 200 lines of code for just the simple rig! I can have as many as 26 bones {'a' to 'z'} in a tentacle and can scale bones & total tentacle length.

[@Visualcodex1]

Thanks for the great video! (Also I emphasise with you having a cat, luckily ours attacks only my old gamer chair! :)

[@ChernobylComedyAndWings]

I changed the parent of this bone 3 times following your exact instructions so far, We have even renamed bones that were previously named by your instructions! HAHA GREAT VIDEO

[@agapitoliria]

This is incredibly useful, thanks! I'm just baffled, how do you come up with such an advanced rig? I always try to simplify, this just so far out there, I'm a bit lost at the parents of parents of... well, thanks a lot for this tutorial! Really considering the course now.

[@Skyerzen]

holy shit that was good

[@Zuneku13]

I've been watching this video over and over and over to learn the intricacies of this rig and to learn how to properly create this rig. I have a character with a tail and this rig perfectly fits how I want to manipulate their tail. They also have hair that, basically, have the shape of 'simple tentacles', but are textured to look like hair, so I want to implement this rig to help create a good hair rig But for now, Still watching and still learning! 🐙

[@jadonmullinex9389]

If you're serious about rigging, you'd defintely benefit from Perrick's rigging course. It makes all of this pretty easy to understand

[@Zuneku13]

@@jadonmullinex9389 i mean... That's... Why... I watch his vids... Um...

[@jadonmullinex9389]

@@Zuneku13 I'm talking about his course "The Art of Effective Rigging" which goes a lot deeper than his KZbin videos

[@Zuneku13]

@@jadonmullinex9389 and I would have if I had the money for it... But unfortunately I don't, so KZbin it is.

[@fatemehfaraji7976]

Well👌👌

[@khealer]

19:13 beautiful!

[@NargaCat]

Why yes I am certainly using tentacle animation for cool action scenes. And nothing else.

[@thefooltouchstone3569]

🦑🐙best tentacle rigging tute...ever! \ 🐙/

[@kordaling]

Huge thanks Pierrick, i'v watched 'the art of effective rigging' and learned a lot, but regarding the mouth, yes you go over the falloff mechanims but you don't go as much in depth to being able to make these expressions 1:40. Wich i suppose is another mechanism, will you make a tutorial about that one day? Thanks

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

I do explain it in the art of effective rigging, using action constraint when building phonems. Here, I just posted the poses further. It’s about the par not the method.

[@deiniou]

My... Brain.. Hurts

[@yonlaycabrera4431]

And that is my grandson why we use to hire people to make those colorful arrows you use to move your hands.

[@Nonorama]

🦑🐙 First time having to rig something.... and it is a creature with some kind of tentacles on it... so at least I made it through the simple tentacle rig variant for now, which is already very helpful. Thank you.

[@LLIyPNk]

Hi, could you please advise me how to scale this bone chain properly to match my tentacle scale? I did test bone chain, now i want to scale it, in edit mode its scales good but in pose mode there is wrong scales for most bones. And it is pretty complicated for me to understand which constrain do it.ty.

[@stevegoodman4290]

🐙On to Advanced! Simple Success.

[@MultiMonkey1986]

Love this, but struggling to actually attach a model to it. all the bones are deforming bones?

[@FyresGames]

One hell of a rig to make, but will be perfect with my monster lady who got a dozen of tenticles as legs. Will combine that with the snake following the ground. One thing might be missing. Scaling up and down the rig disform the bones. Is there something I'm missing?

[@user-kb6is9lp7h]

🐙❣

[@AdredenGaming]

I feel like I have just been shown the secret to a magic trick. Amazing, but I need more time to absorb and truly understand the magic.

[@StarLightFIlmProductions]

I’m working on a game myself and I want to learn how to rig my characters still I don’t know what’s wrong with my mesh or I missed a couple steps I tried many tutorials

[@adsate9555]

I made this rig for a braid, how do I make it animate automatically (respond to game physics)

[@sagaevan9641]

this video taught me about the armature constraint... has it always been there? i've been soo foolish

[@sambabassesoumare1168]

[@cya7615]

Hello, Why are your courses not available on udemy?

[@travelertrapped2011]

shift+ctrl+alt+s worked for me instead of ctrl+alt+s

[@DatBoiRacc]

Is there anywhere I could download this project? I followed the tutorial as carefully as I could and it's completely broken so I wanna know what I did wrong lol. Thanks in advance

[@mridulsharma637]

Hi petrick just Kean to km w how to make a hand with both bendy and straight boness

[@lensterRU]

Is there a reason why you switch from "Copy scale contraint without X and Z" like in your old videos, to "adding extra bone for copy scale and after parenting to them"? A_MCH_INT_BBONE_SCALE

[@HelroyDelano]

Weird issue, my bone with the 2 armature constraints flies off when rotating the root bone. Which I need to do to attach this to a full rig. Any help would be great.

[@trystonkincannon8320]

Doesn't work with 3.4.0 not the bone selection at least, but I may have something messed up.

[@hamdullahguclu9743]

I'm looking for an effect where octopus arms grow with tentacles just like a tree branch. Is there a tutorial. Thank you in advance 😐

[@da_drood-digitalart]

Hey Pierrick, thanks so much for sharing your knowledge on KZbin! I also bought already the art of rigging and Alive courses last year, though i struggled at times and put them on standby as i was learning other stuff back then. I recently came back to animation with Blender and found this tutorial of yours (is it taken from the course or is it a brand new clip?) which seems perfect for what i currently need. But i have a simple question: i noticed when you timelapse the creation of the custom shapes for the bones you multiselected all the three bones and assigned the sphere empty to all of them at once. Why when i try that only the active selection gets the custome shape and not all of them? I hope you can help. It's no big deal but as i have a bone chain of about 16 bones it would be handy for the future as well. Thanks so much and sorry for the extremely long logorrheic post XD

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Hold the Alt key when setting an input to apply it to all selected 😉

[@da_drood-digitalart]

@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN awesome! I was struggling again cause i found out that the ALT key doesn't seem to work if i click the object with the pipette instead of selecting it from the cascade menu XD Thanks again so much for answering, especially on a Sunday

[@openartist7328]

do you have Whip Animation or you can suggest there tutorial that you seen .

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

I did a video about it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqqZdXuJetFoedU

[@cjkalandek996]

Can you please make a tutorial on a T-Rex or Velociraptor walk cycle along with tail animation? Considering _Jurassic World: Dominion_ is coming out soon?

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

The problem is to find a rig :)

[@shankark3250]

Can you please make a course on realistic human face rig....in blender If you ready im kk to join in live paid course....please

[@PhilSchurz]

🐙

[@AdredenGaming]

Has anyone tried these rigs in Godot 3 or 4?

[@Skyerzen]

I have one dumb question which I'm sure you have probably covered in another video. In the property editor.... how are you affecting multiple objects at once when you change values on it? My blender doesn't do that.

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

You write the value and press Alt+enter

[@Tincoco_]

tweaker bones?? I think im tweakin

[@llYuki0okami]

10:09 someone need to make a bit from this 🎼🎼🎼

[@murrowboy]

The first rig didn't need a damped track? I have your art of effective rigging course, you always used the two together. Did you decide to take it out later?

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Hi, This was fixed in a later version of Blender. They modified the stretch to constraint and it no longer needs a damped track to prevent excessive twisting

[@fitnesslivingway2273]

Hi. I am taking your course "ALIVE". please if I have a question, where should I drop it?

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

On our discord. The link is in the course

[@sheepFactory]

Sweet i will get the course Rigging course from Gumroad, One question though. Is blender is the only tool used in the production of Noara Game. or Maya / Zbrush were also used. Thank you

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

We use Zbrush, Substance Painter, Photoshop and Unity

[@shalabology]

can i hit like twice , thrice or 100 times?

[@FlowerPower3000]

after this bone chaos i really want go to maya...