Tutorials

Flying Bird – Character Rigging Series.

brian ·

birdtutorialA 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.

Author brian
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