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Free Rigged Model: Ludwig

  Published by Bart on April 10th, 2006 in Art, Repositories

Afbeelding 1.jpgLudwig is a fully rigged and animation ready character for Blender. His features include IK/FK arms, stretch and squash head and spine, and a lip sync ready face controlled by a custom UI. Ludwig was created to provide the Blender community with a high-quality humanoid rig and to promote Blender as a character animation tool.

The Ludwig rig and model were created by Jason Pierce. Extensive testing and feedback was done by Nathan Dunlap.

Ludwig was not designed with the beginner animator in mind. While every attempt was made to keep the controls as user-friendly as possible, functionality was put ahead of ease of use (personal preference played a role as well). That being said, someone new to animation shouldn't have much trouble getting this rig to do what they want it to do. Most of Ludwig's functions are accessible and intuitive.

Ludwig's rig may be used royalty-free for both commercial and noncommercial applications. The Ludwig character may only be used for noncommercial purposes.

Download Ludwig at http://cs.unm.edu/~sketch/gallery/resource/ludwig/ludwig.html



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  1. 1 Garland-Waide Bradford Edit Link Apr 10th, 2006 at 3:06 pm

    That's way cool. I'm checking Ludwig out now. Thanks community. Jason You rock

  2. 2 Hai Edit Link Apr 10th, 2006 at 3:13 pm

    Amazing! It's really good!

  3. 3 JimC Edit Link Apr 10th, 2006 at 4:15 pm

    All I can say is…WOW!

    This gives me something new to try to figure out.

    Thanks!

  4. 4 Vassilios Boucer Edit Link Apr 10th, 2006 at 4:33 pm

    Thats very Good Example! (Very Good Rigged Character…ready for Animation)

    THANKS!!

  5. 5 mthoenes Edit Link Apr 10th, 2006 at 4:33 pm

    Best Rig I have seen in Blender… Many Many Thanks. He will come in handy at our next Blender Users Group meeting here in Huntsville, AL, USA.

    I also have a rigged character available for download. It is not as good as this one, but still fun to play with.

    http://creationanimation.com/sites/thoenes/animation/3dtutorials.htm

    BlendOn,
    mthoenes

  6. 6 Jason (sketchy) Edit Link Apr 11th, 2006 at 12:31 am

    Hi all! Glad you like the rig. FYI: Nathan Dunlap, Ludwig's tester, has written a fantastic tutorial on making a walk cycle. You can view it here:

    http://www.nathandunlap.brickfilms.com/tutorials/wt01.html

    Also, feel free to discuss Ludwig on elYsiun in this thread:

    http://www.elysiun.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=65292

    Also, a bit offtopic, but while you're over at elysiun, check out Nathan's latest animation, "Private Bob, Space Marine". It is very much worth your time:

    http://www.elysiun.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66038

  7. 7 Salvador Edit Link Apr 11th, 2006 at 1:38 am

    wow, this rig is really awesome, truly.

    but I do really prefer the tutorial about how this excellent rig was done, with the bones weight would be nice.

    thanks for reading.

    Signs Salvador

  8. 8 sonu Edit Link Nov 19th, 2006 at 8:31 pm

    Amazing! It’s really good

  9. 9 Matt Edit Link Feb 25th, 2007 at 5:56 pm

    I'm into my fourth hour of using Blender and Ludwig :) What is the correct method for pivoting his knees?

    I use Maya and the equivalent method would be to have the pole vector on the IK handle constrained to a remote piece of geometry etc.

    cheers

  10. 10 swapnil Edit Link Apr 12th, 2007 at 10:23 am

    good

  11. 11 somsubhra banerjee Edit Link Oct 3rd, 2007 at 3:27 pm

    good models in ur site

  12. 12 tapas kumar dutta Edit Link Dec 14th, 2007 at 5:37 pm

    i want more rigged model

  13. 13 sam Edit Link Jan 6th, 2008 at 9:10 pm

    its very good

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