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Beginner Rigging

Goals

Students will learn how to create a simple rig and attach it to a mesh.

Skills

  • Rigs: bones, parenting, pose mode
  • Parent skeleton to mesh
  • Weight painting
Rigging

Assignment Details

Model a simplistic humanoid or animal mesh and attach a basic armature rig to the model.

  1. Humanoid or animal mesh subject.
    1. The mesh object should be a simple humanoid or animal mesh. It can be just a stick figure with no face or defining features.
    2. You can use an object from a prior assignment or a pre-generated character.
    3. Subject should have a simple color, material, and/or texture applied.
  2. Rigging.
    1. Needs the following 10 bones/joints
    2. Head / neck
    3. Torso /waist
    4. Upper Arm / Shoulders x 2
    5. Lower Arm / Elbows x 2
    6. Upper Leg / Hip x 2
    7. Lower Leg / Knee x 2
  3. Parenting
    1. The torso should be the root bone of all of the bones.
    2. The parent-child structure should go out from the torso to the limbs appropriately.
    3. The rigging fits the mesh subject properly.
    4. The character mesh deforms properly as the rig is posed.

Resources

Blender Fundementals 2.8 tutorials

Rigging Intro
Parenting
Armatures
Vertex Groups
Character Rigging

Rubric

Grade / Topic

A

B

C

Humanoid Animal Mesh Subject

  1. A simple humanoid or animal mesh has been used.

  2. Mesh has enough complexity to accommodate the rigging.

  3. A simple color, material, or texture has been applied.

  1. A simple humanoid or animal mesh has been used.

  2. Mesh is almost complex enough for the rigging.

  3. A simple color, material, or texture has been applied.

  1. A simple humanoid or animal mesh has been used.

  2. Mesh is too simple for the rigging.

  3. No color, material, or texture has been applied.

Rigging

  1. The rigging has the proper 10 bones.

  2. The parenting structure of the bones is set properly.

  3. The rig fits the subject properly.

  4. The character mesh deforms properly as the rig is posed.

  1. The rigging has the at least 8 bones.

  2. The parenting structure of the bones is almost set properly.

  3.  

    The rig almost fits the subject properly.

  4.  

    The character mesh deforms as the rig is posed, but could deform better.

  1. The rigging has the at least 6 bones.

  2. The parenting structure of the bones is quite a bit off.

  3.  

    The rig does not really fit the subject properly.

  4. The character mesh deforms in strange ways as the rig is posed.