Setup Artist Crash Course

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I am attempting to become a Professional Blender Setup Artist and Animator.

Unfortunatly, I suck at modeling. I would like two or three good humanoid models to practice rigging and animating with.

Note; I’m not sure if this is in the right forum.

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There are both Modeling and Animation subforums in the Support section that would have been a better place to ask your question, but to get you started, you should check out:

ManCandy:
http://orange.blender.org/blog/mancandy-updated/ (old link, I’d search here for newer info)

Ludwig
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=66476

Introduction to Character Animation in Blender
http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/BSoD/Introduction_to_Character_Animation

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I was talking about a “MODEL”, not a rig. The purpose of this would be so I could practice rigging my own charachter with the model, not to examine an existing rig.

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So, download mancandy or ludwig, open the file, and delete the armature. Voila! A model, ready to be rigged.

5

Will try with Ludwig.

6

I’ve just released a male body base-mesh model under CC Attribution that you can feel free to use. It’s all ready to be rigged and animated.

http://montagestudio.org/Models.html

Enjoy!

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Go grab the BBB Characters and just import the mesh without the armature into your own blend file.