Tutorial: Softbody for Rigged Characters

Enrico Valenza, winner of the animation award of the Blender Animation Festival 2005, has written a tutorial on the character animation of 'PengZilla', the dancing penguin/bird character in his winning movie.

You have to bring your own model to work on, but he covers many topics such as

• Rigging the character
• Setting up actions for the Non Linear Animation [NLA] tool
• Working with weight groups
• Setting bone influences

You'll find the tutorial on Enrico's site.