25 Rig Building Blocks

DOI: 10.1201/9781003263166-25

The following sections will teach you how to create various rig setups that are made to solve one task each. Once you understand how to make them, together with the bendy bone setups, you will be equipped with a set of building blocks you can use to create any kind of rig you might need. Once we finish looking at these elements in isolation, we will assemble them into a character body rig.

Control Bone

As the rig will comprise many different bones, serving different roles, we don’t want the animators guessing which bones they should be manipulating. Instead, we will make a set of control bones that are meant to be used by the animator and hide everything else. We also want to give these ...

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