Rigging Isn’t Scary: A beginner-friendly Introduction to Manual Rigging in Blender (Beginner to Intermediate)

💡Note: Buying this course here is OPTIONAL. You can also watch it completely free on YouTube. It is a contribution to the awesome Blender community.

If you’ve ever thought, “Rigging is too complicated,” this course will show you that

...rigging isn’t scary. It’s exciting!

"Rigging Isn’t Scary" is designed to guide you through the fundamentals of manual rigging, step by step!

This course makes rigging approachable, fun, and rewarding. By the end, you’ll have the confidence to create robust rigs for your characters!

Who Is This Course For?

• Blender users new to Rigging and Armatures
• 3ds max, Maya, Cinema 4d, etc. riggers looking to switch to Blender
• Animators who want to understand and tweak the rig they're using

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What’s Included

The course is a comprehensive course divided into 3 progressive levels, ensuring a smooth learning curve as you build your skills:

Level 1: Absolute Beginner

Perfect for those with no prior knowledge of Blender rigging, armatures, or bones. In just five concise lessons, you'll learn everything you need to rig your first character:

• Bone Basics: From zero to rigging your first basic rig.

• Core Rigging Mechanism: Discover the one Blender constraint every rigger must know.

• Weight Painting Made Easy: Learn my tested workflow to improve your rig’s functionality.

• Blender Animation Basics: Create a simple walk cycle and understand essential animation concepts.

• Challenge: Rig something new with my guidance!

Level 2: Novice

Build on the basics with key rigging fundamentals and more advanced mechanisms.

This level is the missing piece in most rigging courses which tend to be either too basic or suddenly become too complex.

Level 2 keeps the difficulty manageable while introducing you to:

• Using anatomy as a Guide: Place bones accurately using anatomy principles.

• Understanding Bone Roll: Master this crucial concept that even advanced users don't utilize fully

• Novice Mechanisms: Create wrist and shoulder twists, hips and foot setups, and more.

• Pro-Level Bone Shapes: Make your rigs look polished and professional.

• Advanced Weight Painting: Explore what happens behind the scenes with Blender’s “Automatic Weights.”

• Cool Tricks: Learn how improve the deformations in key areas like shoulder and hips; use Blender’s “Magic Modifier"; grasp the basics of "Euler" and "Quaternion" (I promise to keep it simple! :) )

• Novice Challenge: Rig a character’s face with hands-on support from me!

Level 3: Intermediate

In Level 3 you'll create a rig with many pro-level features. We'll dive into:

• Advanced twisting mechanisms.
• IK-FK switching.
• Limb isolation.
• Complex foot and spine setups
• Shape Keys, drivers, and custom properties.

This level builds on the solid foundations of Levels 1 and 2, helping you confidently tackle intermediate rigging techniques.

By the end, you’ll have created a fully functional character rig, including a shapekey-based face rig.

Level 4?

Finished "Rigging isn't Scary" and loved it?

Wanna keep digging deeper into rigging?

"Rigging Unleashed: from Intermediate to Advanced" is a follow-up course that takes you into even more advanced rigging techniques! More advanced courses are in the works. So CGDive can be your one source of rigging knowledge.

But for now, take it one step at a time. Start with Level 1 and get those basics down. I'll see you in the course! :)

Video Downloads and free Streaming Available

When you purchase this course, you'll be able to download the videos and watch them offline.

You can also get access to free online streaming of the same content on "CGDive Academy". You'll find instructions for that after purchasing the course.

Alternatively, you can get streaming only at a lower price:

Preview of "Rigging Unleashed"