Master rigging in Blender from the ground up. Learn everything from bones, armatures and skinning to advanced controllers, IK systems and facial rigs, giving you the tools to rig anything you can imagine. Rigging Isn’t Scary is a structured, beginner-friendly course designed to remove the confusion from manual rigging in Blender. Start with bones, armatures, parenting, and deformation before progressing to skinning, weight painting, constraints, IK and FK systems, drivers, and practical rigging mechanisms.
Rigging Unleashed takes manual Blender rigging beyond the fundamentals. Build flexible, animation-ready systems with custom controllers, IK workflows, foot rolls, soft IK, IK fingers, squash and stretch, constraints, and reusable techniques that can be adapted to many different characters. Learn Blender’s built-in Rigify system from the ground up. Understand metarigs, rig generation, rig types, bone positioning, skinning, controllers, and the core workflow required to create powerful animation-ready rigs for a wide range of characters.
Discover how to adapt Rigify to a non-standard skeleton character. Build and position the metarig, generate and refine the control system, work with unusual anatomy, and combine Rigify automation with manual rigging techniques for greater flexibility. Create a modular facial rig with Blender and Rigify. Learn how to position facial bones, generate useful animation controls, refine deformation, and build a practical face-rigging workflow that can be adapted to different character designs.
Learn mechanical hard-surface rigging by building an animation-ready battle drone in Blender. Organize moving components, create clean parent-child hierarchies, apply constraints, and design intuitive controls for mechanical motion without relying on character-specific workflows. Explore Rigify’s rig types, settings, and customization options through a detailed video manual. Understand how individual building blocks work, how their options affect the generated rig, and how to use them when creating custom metarigs for different characters and production needs.
