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Rig a character with Rigify

Rig a character with Rigify - Blender Tutorial

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Rig a character with Rigify

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- [Instructor] Character rigging inside of Blender is actually incredibly easy. In this week's Blender's tips, tricks and techniques I'm going to show you how to rig your character with just a few clicks. Let's get started. First, you're going to want to go up to file, user preferences and turn on the rigify add on. It's a great add on that'll let you easily rig any characters, even ones that have multiple tails and legs. Alright, let's close out of that. Now here is our character Hilary from our advanced mechanics course that we taught earlier. Okay, now let's just quickly make a rig. With the rigify add on enabled you can hit shift A, go to armature and click on human metarig, let's do that right now. That's going to generate this big old bone character, so let's go into the front view, make sure you're in orthographic, and hit T and go into edit mode. With edit mode enabled make sure you're under options and you turn on X mirror axis. That way you don't have do everything twice…

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