Rigging Help

Support Animation and Rigging
#1

Hey Everyone (or anyone who’s reading this),

So I’ve just started using Blender and have gotten a fairly good grasp of modeling, but I can’t seem to get my rigs right.

I made a wooden manikin figure and my original rig was apparently meant for a more human figure. I’ve looked through a bunch of the pages here and gathered that I need to make the rig mechanical, but I’ve yet to find a tutorial or explanation for how to do that with a mechanical character as opposed to a bulldozer or something of the sort.

Can anyone offer some help?

#2

make sure that the armature modifier is set to only “vert groups” and not “envelopes”

then when you assign weights to the sections of your model, assign 100% weight to only the that area and 0% to any adjoining areas
(so the forearm bone will only effect the verts of the forearm, etc)

hope that helps