Rig not affecting mesh despite numerous tries

    I have watched a bunch of videos and tried to make this work multiple  times. I have read solutions to others problems, I just cant get this  to work.

Nothing I have tried will make the rig move the mesh so I’m hoping someone with more experience will have an idea.
Blender file is attachedDragonRigNotWorking.blend (4.18 MB).

Thank you very much for help/suggestions.


I have made a simple box man and rigged it and had no problem making the very simple mesh follow the quick rig I made. But I cannot get this dragon model to respond to the armature. My guess is it’s too complex and needs to be rotop’d but I don’t want to go down that road if it is not necessary.

Thank you.

Uncheck manipulate center points in your header.


first click on this button and u r good to go… second… you need to work on model. its too high poly… not worth at all for animation. best of luck.

Thank you stilltrying and Dhurba! I posted on Facebook on three forums, I posted on Blender Stack exchange and got not one single reply. THANK you both!