From the course: Learning Character Animation
Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
CINEMA 4D rig overview
If you're a Cinema 4D user, we're supplying two rigs for this course. Now these are just rigs that you can use to create your own animations, or if you want, you can follow along with what we're doing. So these rigs are basically engineered to be as. Close to the other rigs that we're using as possible, so that way you have the same controls. So these might not be a typical Cinema 4D rig but they match the course. And these are very capable rigs that you can use for a lots of different types of animation. So let's go ahead and run through some of the basics of the rig. If we select this big control here, that's basically just the master mover control, so we can actually move the character around. We have controls for the feet, here. If you zoom in here, you'll see we have a control here for the foot. And this basically is your foot position. By default, the foot is in inverse kinematics. Now, we have inverse and forward kinematics for the feet, so if I select this control here, this…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.