Flying Bird - Character Rigging Series.

Published by brian on December 9th, 2006 in Tutorials

A good introduction to basic rigging and some useful tips like using CTRL-N to recalculate bone normal orientation, something you don't think of as a useful command, but it´s very usefull to have the bone´s Z axis pointing in the right direction.

It appears that it will be a series of tutorials. Part one appears to be mostly complete, as does part two.

Part one - Flying Bird - Building the rig is located here.

One thing that appears to be missing and I may just have missed it is a modeling tutorial for the bird or the actual mesh to work with. Even without those its a useful tutorial for learning the process.

It also appears that a NLA tutorial is planned for the bird as well. But a placeholder is just available now here. No tutorial is there yet.

Part two the skinning or weight mapping tutorial is available here.

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8 Responses to “Flying Bird - Character Rigging Series.”

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1 ZanQdo Dec 9th, 2006 at 9:31 am

I´m sorry there will be no NLA part :-(
2 algerdino Dec 9th, 2006 at 1:00 pm

yeah good tutorial but where is the 3d model
3 ccherrett Dec 9th, 2006 at 1:48 pm

very helpful. Thanks
4 kaeru Dec 9th, 2006 at 3:24 pm

Hi ,

I just want to report a skinning tips that i discovered when i was searching to speed the process .

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=78815&highlight=skinning+tips

The patch discussed in this thread didn't been accepted , maybe in a later version (2.5 ?)we will have a better one (merge with the mirror modifier ?) .

Or maybe we will have a python script for this , currently my python scripting skill are too limited to create one myself :-( ( i even don't know if it's possible to do this ) .

Ok that's all folks :-) .
5 venomgfx Dec 9th, 2006 at 9:01 pm

jeeesshh what a surprise!! I modeled that bird for our SnakeMan project! almost 2 year ago..

Could this be like a sneak preview for our some-day-finished project? :)
6 ZanQdo Dec 10th, 2006 at 2:27 am

Venom I´m sure we will finish that project someday, even if we are 80 and with no theeth :-D
7 FromTheDark Dec 13th, 2006 at 4:16 am

This is a great tutorial but…where is the 3D model man?! Or maybe…we should make our own? I'm just saying!
8 Mata Dec 13th, 2006 at 4:30 pm

with no theeth? waa.. that's enough to belive you ;)

By the way, great tutorial ZanQdo :D