Joost de Jonge is a Dutch freelance 3D animator. He was recently featured on BlenderNation with his music video 'Marsman en Kadee'. He's now selling his 2D rig with an easy to use templating system for drawing your character.

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JeriH has released his George Rig 1.0. and he's obviously put a lot of thought into this rigging, keeping the animator in mind all the time with simplified controls and a separate window for the entire IK/FK controllers with a nice GUI background. In addition he's completed a companion manual for it.

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Sebastian Pelan is working on a setup to make Blender camera manipulation more intuitive for filmmakers.

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Blender master Endi has published a real time animation of a horse statue with some amazing materials. Get it at BlenderArtists.

BlenRig 3.0 is a Free Character Rig/Rigging System for Blender 2.49.

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Here's another nice free rig to experiment with. It's non-realistic, and aimed at studying animation.

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Hongkiat.com recently posted a list of 60 websites that are hosting free 3D models. Go ahead and tap into this excellent resource!

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The planetarium of the Weber State University uses Blender to create content for their full-dome digital projector. Rendering for this screen requires a Fisheye camera, for which they have created and released a camera rig.

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Article submitted by Tony Mullen. If you're a fan of Japanese anime culture or just want to practice your character animation skills on a top-notch, professional quality rigged model, this news will definitely be of interest to you.

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Riste Sekuloski has released his Einstein Dwarf rig and model, free for download.

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If you make an animated series about a bar you'll have to animate beer, I guess. The Kajimba team just released a beer rig (that's a first!), including a nice demo movie. Cheers!

They write:

We just finished a beer rig, plus a few cold ones for ourselves. Made it simple for the sake of the simple animators we have here. The shading of the beer itself is up for debate, seeing as half the studio like theirs blonde, and the other half dark.

Juan Pablo Bouza has just released a new and very detailed character rig using his latest version of BlenRig (BlenRig 2.0). You might remember him as the creator of a past animation, 'The Dance of the Bashful Dwarf'.

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dav_ recently announced the release of a simple toon character and rig on Blenderartists. He describes it as having basic controls and says that it is a work in progress. Because it is a work in progress, dav_ would like to hear any feedback you may have.

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Karl wrote:

To celebrate the release of Blender 2.46 and Big Buck Bunny (okay, and as an excuse to play around with Blender's cool new features!), I've ported Andrew Silke's well-known "Generi Rig" to Blender. Generi is a very popular Maya rig that's regularly entered into animation competitions such as 11 Second Club, and now Blender users have access to him too! :)

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Michael Tieleman aka. Freakydude, has re-release an updated version of his Little Fella rig.

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JiriH has created this nice squash and stretch ball rig to give beginners an introduction to rig animation. However, note that the rig only works for Blender 2.46 RC and hopefully the final 2.46 release as well.

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