Ok, things are getting even worse here! 
When moving the Master bone in pose mode, things get veeeeeery messy…
Can someone please tell me what is wrong with my character?
I have been through the entire thing like 4 times… 
The newest, and worst, blend file is right here…
Thanks!
You need to make hip.l/r children of spine1 and change the chainlen of lower_leg.r to 2.
The reason the chainlen was having no effect in your previous file is that the hip.l/r were not connected to spine1. Even in the the previous file though your hip.l was being affected by the IK when it shouldn’t be (because the chainlen 0 had the effect of including the hip bone).
Mike
Thank you soooooo much! 
Hello and thank you for the great tutorial. I’m having some problems right at the beginning. Whenever I do the ‘shaping’ when making the face, I always seem to screw up horribly. Could you possibly give some more information on the shaping process, or maybe a .blend file?
@foobar:
What specifically is happening when you shape the face? “Before” and “After” screenshots or a .blend would be really helpful for troubleshooting. Once we figure out what’s going on, I’ll add some more details about the shaping process.
-Ryan
marenzelleria: It’s not a problem with blender, it’s a problem with what I’m doing. I just am having difficulty shaping it correctly and it ends up looking like a very angry person who is presumably angry because their head is fairly misshapen and certainly does not look as pretty as the pictures in the tutorial.
Thank you for this great tutorial it truly is one of the best that i have ever seen… i got up to weight painting and then blender crashed so now all i have is a head lol but anyway great tut thanx 
Just finished the modeling part of the tutorial and I thought I’d post my results so far. This is my first attempt at character/organic modeling.
Zurial just make sure you have applied a armature modifier to the model before weight painting. I made a mistake like that, that cause blender to crash.
Martin.
im doing the blender summer of doc and i have a problem . i do everything it says and i get a wrong result.
i just finished the upper part and i wanted to continue with the lower one(building the lower body armature) http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.p…_body_armature
i do everything as it says but when i get to the point where it says to move the leg bone i get a wrong result , instead that the whole armature would move wrong , it moves as i show you in the most right jpg , and also the mesh moves along with the bone.
this is what i’ve done : i shift-e the hips them the upperlegs then the lower legs , then the foot then the toe and then the leg, then i name them , then i disconect toe.l and make it child of of leg.l
then diconect foot from its parent make foot a child of leg.l
then leg.l child of none
then switch to pose select lower_leg.l and add an ik solver , write armature in ‘‘ob’’ and foot.l in ‘‘bo’’
turn auto ik off
and then it says to move the leg.l and it should move the hole armature along and it dont.
what im i doing wrong ?
thanx
giorgio martini,
I believe the reason the mesh follows along is because you have envelopes pressed in the armature panel.
As for the whole armature tilting I also got the same result as you. I made the hip.l and hip.r bones a child of the spine1 bone (with the “con” button off) and continued on in the tutorial and everything else worked just fine. How the author connected the hip bones to the spine is missing from the tutorial.
GreyBeard
Nice tutorial!
A great start for beginners.
Say, who else uses armature and poses for rendering stills?
Allright , i was getting desperate , so i’ll try what you say :
instead of just shift -e the hips , i shit -e them and then conect them to the spine 1 and then continue the tutorial.
[quote=giorgio martini;719102]Allright , i was getting desperate , everything works fione now.
thanx so much !
Let me guess… you’re an “Asterix & Obelix” fan? 
hi , im having prblems with pose 6 in the walk cycle ,
http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/BSoD/Introduction_to_Character_Animation/2-second_animation
in the passing pose it says : Adjust leg.r and toe.r so that the foot is flat on the ground
so i adjust the leg.r to be on the ground , but when i try to adjust the toe it gets seoarated from the foot , so i have to move the foot location , and it seems ok , but when i move through the frames ir makes some strange things , how did u guys whent throuh this ?
Because the toes are disconnected from the foot, you generally don’t want to move g(rab) them, but only rotate them.
You might want to take a look at the modifications I suggest in this post for the foot/leg setup and some other minor modfications to the rig
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showpost.php?p=685664&postcount=10
Also look at posts #9-13 for the reasons for the mods.
Mike
Ryan,
Thanks for the awesome tutorial. I had decided to teach Blender to the 18 students in my “Multimedia 12” class, and your tutorial is now my unofficial text! Hope you don’t mind. 
It’s definitely the best I could find.
As we go through it in tedious detail, I hope you don’t mind if I forward corrections or ideas. On that note, on the “Setting_up_the_mesh” page, I found the following quote in the “subdividing” area:
to border-select them.However, when we attempted to do this, all of our WindowsXP boxes required us to use the LMB (not RMB) for this procedure.Also, on page “Face_and_eyes”, we have had no success with the following instruction:
Just in case I’m doing something wrong, I’ve posted a .blend file here.
Thanks for the tutorial, and for any help you may be able to provide.
You are correct, it is LMB, I updated the page. (I didn’t write the tutorial, I just try to help out with small fixes and changes to the WIKI).
ALT-R only works in object mode (for non-Armature objects). There is no instruction in the tutorial to go into EDIT mode at that point. You might have assumed that you need to be in EDIT mode when “operating/editing” an object, but that is not always the case. EDIT mode is for operating on the “substructure” (verts/faces) of an object, while transforms on the entire object (including ALT-R/G/S) are done in OBJECT mode.
Mike
Awesome! Thanks Mike_S. What a fast response!
The thing that threw me off was that the eyes in the previous image (Mirrored, duplicate eye) were subsurf’d nicely, but the eyes in this image (The eyes on layer 2) were un-rounded. (Is that a word?) I therefore assumed that this meant ‘Edit’ mode. My bad.
Thanks again.
