Rigging a Low Poly Person | Blender 2.8 | Beginners

[@TedG1985]

Probably the best explanation of a tutorial I’ve seen. Others literally smash through it like they really need to catch a bus. Well played!

[@grabbitt]

Thanks 😃

[@fatnose0]

"others" they know who they are..

[@KashTheKingYT]

@@fatnose0 CGeek

[@seanposkea]

Yes, nice balance. I really like your tutorial style even though I'm not big on low-poly stuff or sculpting. I love a good Ian Hubert or Blender Binge "bus catching" tutorial but those are hard to keep up with. On the other hand It's tough to stay focused making a donut for 4 hours with "other" tutorials ;) But I've always thought you've found the perfect balance: not running for the bus, but not wandering down alleys and into thrift shops and stopping for lunch (or a donut?) either. Thanks.

[@Mrityu]

@@seanposkea oh man that donut reference 🤣

[@RogDolos]

More than 3 years later & still the most useful rigging tutorial on KZbin. Just dropping in with this comment to show my appreciation for what you've provided here. Thank you.

[@StephenTheSuipod]

I agree. I am following Grant's course on Udemy and this information is still useful 3 years later. Great lesson.

[@PinccART]

Four months late, the only tutorial that really taught me anything for rigging. Watching the other channels with no script and 3 hours time to show much less not explaining anything just wanting to flex their blender skills.

[@ArnoldSig]

Pinc c Exactly🙈 Thanks Grant, great tutorial as far as I can tell👏🏻

[@TheGodEmperorOfMankind_]

Any more CG Geek refugees? Lmao. This one is great, straight to the point, with proper explanations and without over complicating things for no real reason

[@MichaelConroy]

Exactly! I followed this having only used blender one other time months ago and was able to rig my character that I had made in Asset Forge within a few minutes.

[@kavicportoghese3524]

Didn't think that the god emperor of mankind was into blender, guess you have to make Primaris Lieutenants somehow

[@Gremory_666]

I was searching for blender rigging tutorial, the youtube money algorithm recommended me this CG geek. After 3 minutes of watching, I hated it, so I ended up here.

[@mrsquidthethird2696]

Yeah

[@fester1355]

I tried following cg geek twice but it just doesnt work

[@rawls101]

"It does get weird of course, when you get a baby inside a baby." - Grant Abbitt Awesome tutorial Grant! Exactly what us Blender noobs needed! Keep up the great work!!!

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@BubbleAnimations0237]

Keep this comment at 69 likes B)

[@sablenaught]

Gotta agree, that's my favorite explanation for that XD

[@Lishtenbird]

This is the tutorial that inadvertently answered those specific rigging questions that no other rigging tutorial deemed important. Thank you.

[@grabbitt]

Great to hear!

[@anveshkhode3794]

I still don't know about them IK bones........

[@shotrag]

Absolutely the most straight forward, no fluff, no BS approach to fundamental rigging in blender. Immense kudos to you Mr Abbitt. Truly, anyone who wants, or needs to make character rigging any harder than what is shown here, is a sociopath.

[@gutozardy]

5 minutes and I already realized this is the best Blender tutorial about rigging until now.

[@johngonzalez3634]

Quick tip: When you are using a model with a lot of vertices and it says; heat-weighting-failed-to-find-solution-for-one-or-more-bones then you should; (in edit mode) Select all vertices. Right-click and select “Merge Vertices”. From the new options displayed, click “by distance”. then try to parent mesh with bones again. i hope it helps!

[@cubeheadii9284]

Oh ok i'll try that

[@real_Nik0]

It doesn't work, I did everything you said, had 357 merged but still got the same error

[@JackCyberChibrac]

It worked for me thank you so much ! ❤❤❤

[@dasroteeichhornchen8346]

In the past, I made several attempts to warm up to Blender, just didn´t work out in spite of YT Videos, books and DVD´s. When 2.8 came out I thought I give it another try and luckily came across your channel. And all of a sudden I find myself having hours and hours of fun modelling sea shacks, chess pieces, elephants, ray guns and now low poly (it´s probably "polygonically challenged") people , all thanks to you. You are really an exceptional teacher. Thanks a ton, Grant, I really appreciate the enormous amount of effort and time you put into these tutorials. I have no clue what this dreadful "weight painting" is that all the more proficient guys are talking about in the comments, but with you on our side I´m absolutely confident that we as your faithful followers will master even this without lasting detriments to our mental health...

[@grabbitt]

that's great to hear thanks

[@FormerlyKnownAsAndrew]

My animation turned out wayy better than I expected. Forward flip into an IronMan flying pose lolll. Thanks Grant. Sent you a coffee for this one.

[@grabbitt]

Nice work! thanks very much :)

[@jessikapiche6097]

Dear Grant, this video is the best video on rigging a character i have seen so far. I watch others and they are way too fast for me to learn anything, making it all just a frustrating learning experience. With you, i can listen, see what you are doing, stop, get on blender, do the same as you did, and get back to the video for more info. This gave me the basic i need to experiment on my own, try stuff around and find learning Blender an actually FUN experience! Great Video!

[@hermanoscapo188]

Omg bro you're the best teacher and your voice is so soft and its like henry cavill is talking me smootly at night... I love it

[@grabbitt]

Thank you so much 😀

[@2wen98]

Ummmm

[@mrsilverman]

Watched this 7 times already just cuz your voice is relaxing.

[@thismakesnosense4815]

"its weird to have a baby inside a baby" definitely

[@jacksonjackson3561]

That means you got 2 babies inside your belly having incest "party".........

[@WiiSPMusic]

jackson jackson wtf

[@SteveAdmienn]

It's known as Fetus in Fetu, which is a fetus within a fetus. It's a combination of a parasitic twin and teratoma tumor.

[@genybr]

This is the Matryoshka paradox. Also, some incects use this feature for some reasons.

[@pnutdraws]

N0rman f3tu2 486

[@aliosanlou4425]

This is the best toturial u can find for Rigging Rigid Body Characters 💛

[@Krahkarq]

Like some others I finished the low poly tutorial thinking "rigging explained by Grant would be nice". Thank you so much for your outstanding work!

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@pythonlucas]

This was the second video I watched of you for learning Blender, and I love it! It was just what I needed as the perfect sequel to the first one. It has been so useful for me. It also inspired me to share my own video about Blender From Scratch. You really made rigging look easier than how it’s explained in other tutorials. Thank you a lot!

[@winniZX81]

"Ctrl + A" You've just helped me solve an animation export error Ive been having for months. Thank you. Subbed

[@aortaplatinum]

THANK YOU. A certain dumbass's tutorial on rigging specifically for animation is like the first video that comes up when you search "blender rigging" and it's a fucking awful tutorial. Here, though, you actually like, speak at a normal pace and EXPLAIN things, which is infinitely more helpful and actually teaches me how to do shit instead of just "copy along and do what I do exactly as I speed through this 'tutorial'"

[@marktaro]

This was a really great quick intro into character rigging and animation, something I thought was so hard but which you very clearly explained in 13 minutes. Thank you very much for the videos, Mr. Abbitt!

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@Jaitzche]

Thank you so much for this! I've spent the past week basically tearing my hair out trying to figure out what I'm even doing, and since I've found your channel I feel like I'm actually getting a grasp on things.

[@karlenaleksanyan9242]

I am a refugee from CG Geek's tutorial.

[@MrX-pc5xn]

I haven't watched the CG Geek video(s). Why is it horrible?

[@karlenaleksanyan9242]

@@MrX-pc5xn You couldn't call it a tutorial, it was just him rigging a model while commentating some of what he does.

[@E.I.Z]

lmfao hello fellow refugee

[@patgg]

@@E.I.Z Hello there lol I was watching CG geeks video a while ago but it fucked up my guy.

[@Tsolag101]

@@MrX-pc5xn It promises model rigging in 10 minutes. Took me an hour to finish half of it and ended up dislocating my models hips. Many things he does are cut from the video.

[@marsupialsofmars3886]

Idk how you do it, your tutorials are about a million times more clear and easy to follow than any others on youtube. You're my hero.

[@hsevencg9981]

we love u so much grant abbit

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@eswar9126]

Wow, you're the best blender teacher I've ever seen. I learned modelling by watching your tutorials. A million thank you for making all these tutorials. You're the BEST! 🥳

[@samirdesigner3324]

make part three how to make clothes to body ?

[@grabbitt]

maybe one day :)

[@hsevencg9981]

and skin

[@parsthemagus6315]

@@grabbitt its most liked comment hehe, in you i trust my friend one day i ll watch a solid clothing tutorial for you (hopefully)

[@Kate-Tea]

Grant Abbitt :O plssss

[@julianodbz]

That would be awesome, he really has a nice skill at teaching!

[@KazeDreaX]

Nowadays, I had started learn to Blender with a few youtuber channels but I had never seen like your channel. Thank you so much for everything. For 1 month ago I was been beginner and now I'm almost intermediate. Thank you so much. Whenever I want to learn something, directly I'd rather your channel.

[@samthumbfinger3124]

I doubt that you'll see this comment as this video is 2 yes old... I have just started my dive into 3d modelling and animation at the ripe age of 37. Honestly your tutorials are amazing.. Nothing left unexplained or leaves me thinking "what did he just press.." Thank you for your calm approach I will be a committed student 🙏 👍 🙂

[@grabbitt]

I check all my comments😃

[@jordanruzic3665]

You by far have the best youtube channel on Blender. Your ability to teach this stuff is at a different level of everyone else. Thanks so much for all your work.

[@johndeggendorf7826]

Hey, Grant...we love you, man. People like you make Blender such a cool place to work. ✌️🙏🥃🎩🎩🎩

[@NeilRoy]

Honestly the best analogy is that when you move the upper arm, the rest comes with it. Perfect tutorial, the best I have seen on the subject, at least for beginners anyhow. Very refreshing, thanks.

[@santicheeks1106]

This is the only rigging tutorial that has ever worked for me

[@DanielLawton]

I love his tutorials. No stuff clicked on without a clear knowledge of what he just did. I don't have to rewind to find out. If anything, I just need to pause to find where to click like he just did. Less rewinds is always good!

[@MukeshKumar-qh1bh]

I have a problem Can you help me please When I try to select my hand whole body is selected . How do I fix it?😢😢

[@nikhilknixon7351]

Don't add new shapes while in edit mode. Instead go to Object mode ---> Add ---> Mesh --->Cube or Circle or whatever. Then we will get separate objects. But when we do it in edit mode, it whole body acts as a single object, so you can't select the hand individually. TRY IT!!! HOPE IT HELPS...😊😊😊

[@LemonGrinder]

I had that issue too, since I originally made my character as one object. Luckily you can solve this by separating your original character into individual objects by selecting the vertices and turning them into their own objects! More info: blender.stackexchange.com/questions/6184/splitting-pieces-of-a-mesh-into-a-new-object

[@REPTILE.FOREVER]

Grape Fuzz This just saved my life! Thank god for comment section heroes :)

[@archiebrunsdon3023]

@@LemonGrinder you are a god-send

[@Wyi-the-rogue]

finally an actually good looking low poly character

[@gabrielleraul]

thank you sir, may the universe bless you with happiness.

[@ericoftheotherworld1525]

Wow brother, you do SUCH a fantastic job explaining things step by step at a nice pace, one of the easiest videos to follow along in most blender guides without skipping important details. Other youtubers will skip, and not explain an important detail, than you stuck for hours trying to figure out something that you missed. Thanks man!

[@arnabghosh4124]

It's a great tutorial. But if you could update 2.79 rigging video to 2.8 it will be amazing.☺️🙂 And one more thing if you please, Make a 3rd part about making cloths.☺️

[@grabbitt]

i may well do that in the future

[@arnabghosh4124]

That will be great.😄 And I'm sure more people will be waiting for that.😊

[@Oveyz]

@@grabbitt please, it'd be amazing to have clothes... cause we could give that person a nice apron skirt and bonnet and have them carry a bucket... and put them right next to your low poly well! Complete loop!

[@oldsk0ol]

@@grabbitt You could use the shrink wrap modifier for clothing lol

[@4.0.4]

Your tutorials are really straightforward and your voice is perfectly understandable even when sped up. Well recorded and scripted, not just well spoken. Great work!

[@grabbitt]

Thanks

[@Straygoose604]

Was about to start your tutorial on making the person this weekend and now I can follow up with Rigging. :D

[@dizzak101]

This is an old tutorial and there's stuff like rigify now, but this has been one of the most useful blender tutorials ive run into after scouring youtube. Appreciate you posting this -- thanks a lot!

[@barellevy6030]

Thank you so much for this video, it's amazing ! If you could update the rigging and animation video from 2.79 to 2.8 that would be awesome

[@arazsharif720]

i'm one of those people who asked it a few days ago, didn't think it would happen this soon! you're doing god's work, thanks!

[@navi1615]

Will you expand this tutorial with IKs and other rigging methods?

[@grabbitt]

i was not planing to but who knows :)

[@Khelim.o]

it would really help alot ( big fan of your work)

[@eyelessartist5963]

OMFG THANK YOU, I tried following other tutorials and ended up so frustrated I cried. I actually got my character rigged thanks to you. you're awesome

[@grabbitt]

Glad I could help!

[@wildharkyphake4887]

Bones have family trees... Radius: mum i want to play Elbow: ok go play with your sister Ulna Ulna: I don't want to play! When can we see grandpa Humerus? He is really funny Elbow: soon, dear, soon..

[@calebvonweichardt7785]

Grandpa HUMERus is really FUNNY Am I the only one that caught that?

[@Kegisi06]

@@calebvonweichardt7785 no. that was the joke.

[@happytimelogan]

Each step clear and not rushed.... hallelujah!

[@subhajitdutta4106]

Plz do an eye rigging tutorial...plz sir...

[@xxsmoothiesxx1996]

the simplest way to go about it was the lock object mode check in the edit menu definitely helped even through trial an error very appreciative of the video.

[@slicy9662]

when i move my arms and legs they detach from the main body, but so far i learnt a lot so thank you, good tutorial

[@JosiahLegg]

I have the same problem any solutions?

[@slicy9662]

I haven't figured out a way yet, low-key was hoping he would give us one lol

[@JosiahLegg]

slicy lol maybe he will one day

[@skaffen]

Same problem here, although I made sure I selected one bone at once. Please help :/

[@darkcat5823]

Make sure you're using rotation (R) instead of moving (G) for these bones and your Pivot Point is set to Median Point. For this, press dot key (.) and select Median Point.

[@manuelagisca3913]

I pretty much learn from everybody, but I feel that Grant knows exactly what I DON"T know :)) Not to mention his warm 'teaching' voice. I could listen to him on and on and on :)) My fav.

[@seimonara1748]

Thank you very much

[@grabbitt]

nice :)

[@JJforYoutube]

easily the best tutorial out there, I always thought rigging was complicated but I finished rigging my model in like 10 minutes

[@thecompletedluigitwat4827]

Starts singing.. "the rib bone is connected to the

[@jaejoon96]

I am always amazed at how you can easily understand this compared with other tutors. I hope you'll continue this kind of approach. Thank you!

[@darkflamesquirrel]

"think of a mother with a baby inside her. so the mother moves and the baby moves with her." me: oh hey thats a good analogy "it does get weird of course when you think of a baby inside a baby" me: I could not have been more wrong

[@atakanklavuz5850]

I was strugilling with other tutorials for hours, but this just took my 20 minutes to understand rigging. Thanks Grant!

[@TheWindowsUser92]

Damn I didn't realize so many of us were refugees from CG Geek's tutorial

[@Lilrob06]

i am a refugee

[@shinsei1122]

this is all i need today. thank goodness. I spent almost 2 hours trying to followe cg geeks character rigging, but i encounter so many problems. going back to it again maybe tomorrow but this one is much easy to understand thank you so much.

[@Tomipolus]

1:34 - That's a nice bone man.

[@arknark]

Glad someone else appreciated that bone as much as I did.

[@waydevanniekerk7886]

Very nice bone

[@JustEddieGaming]

Phrase of the year, "I'm gonna hide my man"....Love your tutorials, thank you for them very helpful and with 2.8 it has brought back my interest in modeling....

[@ralphofficial7794]

Nobody: God when Creating a skeleton:

[@gxrsky]

I've seen so many helpful tutorials from you that I feel connected to you in some strange and grateful way ^___^ Infinite thanks for what you're doing.

[@fady904]

Man, I can't thank you enough for this amazing tutorial for a complete noob like me. I spun my wheels going nowhere with the Automatic Weights. Your approach is much simpler, and I can control which mesh is a child of which bone. Automatic Weights drove me nuts and I had to continuously adjust the weight painting. This tutorial put a smile back on my face and get my blood pressure in normal range 🙂. I will check your Udemy courses.

[@sablenaught]

Literally the first person who's made sense outta this to me. You have my thanks

[@AaronIvanovAnims]

Thank you so much for this tutorial, usually others rig a single object, but my rigs have a lot of seperate parts. This really helped! Thanks!

[@macithegamerYT]

Thank you so much! I've always had problems with rigging, nothing would ever work and it would just make a mess. I've watched like 10 rigging tutorials and they never seem to work, but this is the only video that worked for me.

[@Lexyvil]

Probably the best introduction to this concept I've seen, I understood in one viewing! Thank you. The last video I watched that tried to explain this was by CG Geek. He knows the material, sure, but is a bad teacher and only commentates his action rather than teach how to do it, so I'm glad I stumbled on yours as you truly are an amazing teacher.

[@sareklee1414]

Your video was the only one I found that pointed out the "select all, then make sure the armature was the active object". For the life of me I couldn't get it to work until I came across that tiny little nugget. Thanks for the save!

[@chienbanane3168]

Great tutorials! It's not an empty compliment, I've tried several times to learn Blender in the past and could never get past the very first steps of whatever I was trying to learn from, but with your videos it's been smooth sailing!

[@grabbitt]

Thanks

[@skr0907]

By far the best blender tutorial i have seen about animation and rigging. CG Geek is also good, but he sometimes does it very fast and skips the explanation. Keep it up! And please make more videos on animation!

[@joshscott7401]

This is amazing, even two years later. Thank you for going in-depth on parenting bones to objects.

[@ZDB3D]

I needed to figure out how to rig something that was not 1 mesh, and this saved the day, even 2 years later, thank you so much!

[@gary.oneill]

This and the character creation were the first vids I'd watched when starting blender, and they were both great. Entirely cover the basics, no steps were too difficult to follow along with. Honestly just well done. Really appreciate the effort you've put into this.

[@grabbitt]

Thanks

[@FirstNameLastName-wg8ld]

This is, at the time I'm writing this, the only tutorial I could follow and actually understand how to do it. Thank you.

[@MotiviqueStudio]

Thanks for this - I've tried to watch rigging tutorials before but there were two many aspects of the process I didn't fully grasp. This is finally making complete sense.

[@Noelchew00]

Thank you for you video, I was struggling to get my low poly mesh to work with the weighted option for awhile, happy that now I know a better way to rig. Thanks

[@daneshj4013]

Thanks for these tutorials. Just did the low poly one and it's great to see the output be able to flow into another workflow. Tried other tutorials on character creation to animation only to find out at the end of the video that the person just makes static characters that aren't suited for animation in blender. So kudos on the clear explanations! Learning so much in such a short time!

[@tanklover2393]

I've learned so much thanks to you man. I started Blender this time last year, I've already created a few lowpoly characters and vehicles. So happy i started learning blender.

[@rreeppeeaatteerr]

you, sir, are an excellent teacher. very clear, detailed explanations, yet you assume some intelligence of your audience. hats off to you. and thank you so much for making these videos!

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@walthansen6333]

I've tried rigging multiple times, and it just never quite worked... Sure, this adds an extra step into what I was doing, but THIS WORKS !!!!! Thank you very much, damn good job sir.

[@aryhon6222]

this tutorial was the most beneficial thing to come to my attention in my short time with blender. you make it so easy to learn! subbed!

[@affiqdarimy8094]

This is very detailed and helpful. Going through things slowly with repeated examples really help for better understanding

[@GavvyCool]

thank you Grant. Again and again you pull through for us and help us so much, all for free. You are a legend.

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@CoRon3x]

GOAT Abbitt right there. Thanks for teaching me yet another lesson on my Blender journey.

[@ComanchePrime]

you have one of the best ways to explain things, even the small misc ones, thank you mate!

[@StephenGlatfelter]

Thanks so much! Started rigging in blender recently and this is the best video even after 3 years.

[@abdelrahmandarwish1425]

After seeing so many videos, this is the best tutorial ive seen

[@RoboGuy2K]

You would not imagine the relief I felt when you showed the lock object mode trick.

[@grey_apache]

So many other tutorials were much more difficulty, thanks for making it simple and quick

[@caiomendes2053]

Amazing tutorial, Grant. Very well paced. It is so important for us that you point out which keys you're using. Thanks a lot for that!

[@grabbitt]

Thanks

[@lovedead710]

MY GUY MUCH LOVE! Just finished the beginner tutorial last night, made a kick ass scene in blender thanks to you! LOVE YOU

[@grabbitt]

thanks :) join the discord server and show us your work :) make sure you tag me @grant

[@lovedead710]

@@grabbitt I definitely will tonight!

[@needforwil]

Thank you so much for this tutorial! I gave up with the CG Geek one after getting nowhere for 4 hours - this took me about 20 minutes!!

[@CamperJohn]

Finished the first part a couple of days ago...thinking this part might be later down the road...very pleasingly surprised that you post it much sooner than I expected...thanks so much....plan on working on this tonight....thanks again for all that you do.

[@grabbitt]

thanks :)

[@copper438]

probs one of the only useful tutorials for blender out there

[@glitchingbee]

Much more helpful than CgGeek's tutorial! Good work! Now I can animate a toaster with legs...

[@hammycan]

Thank you for this, it really helped. So many other videos were working with single meshes, when that wasn't what I needed.

[@jsn4591]

I love this video Grant. I don't do much Blender stuff so I tend to need a recap when getting back into it, also pop over to your vids for a refresher. Thanks :)

[@dannybouchard4140]

Finally!!!! I was able to follow and rig a mech thanks to this video!! Thanks alot Grant, really appreciate your work mate.