Rigging

[Okidoki]

Welcome …

…if you use the awesome forum search function (top right; –icon) …

you may find something like :

Rig Anything With Rigify (tutorial series)

Hey guys, I spent the last two or so months preparing a tutorial series about Rigify. If you struggle with rigging I think you’ll have a lot of fun with it. Rigify is a free addon that’s part of Blender and it basically automates the rigging process. It’s very powerful. It can be hard to get started with but once you are up and running you’ll be rigging any character with ease. Here are some characters we’ll be rigging together: [rigify_charactger_rigs] (note: the dragon and two-headed ogr…

or this:

Tutorials for posing and simple animation using rigify rig

HI Folk: What do I want to achieve: To be able to do poses and simple animations (a guy walking, sitting and standing etc) using my character models with a full rigify rig What did I try: I can pose limbs and such – I also know how to save poses in the pose manager / asset manager What went wrong: It takes me FOREVER for achieve a pose – a simple sitting pose probably took an hour last night What do I need: Recommendations for good video tutorials about USING (not installing) the rigify ri…

…in the tutorial section… but also some specific questions (and answers) in the other categories…

Also: If you are new to blender and still want to use UE (or are already experienced in UE) then you might consider to use UE for this directly ( ??.. i’m not using it myself ) like so:

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/rigging-with-control-rig-in-unreal-engine

There are lot of possibilities…for example semi-commercial some auto rigging solutions… for example Mixamo (but only free for less then IDK polygons ?? …and others like AccuRig )

And of course the blender included Rigify ( … ) see also Docs-Blender Manual: Addons → Rrigging → Rigify …

So it depends on what you have already used before… because rigging is not easy and doing so for some more lowpoly kind of model is usually the first step to make someone familiar with it… ( like boiled eggs for the first cooking experience ).