Bones are the building blocks of your rig.Β You'll learn everything from the ground up to build your knowledge and understanding
You will learn the roles of each of the bones in a rig so that complexity becomes simplified.
Learn the art of weight painting.Β You will master all the different techniques to get your verts to move exactly the way you need.
What good is learning if you don't get to practice it right?
Along the way you will have several exercises and projects to build yourself.
Each designed to build upon what you have learned and solidify that knowledge.
The projects start out easy and build in difficulty as your skills improve.
The final project is to build a basic character rig that you can actually animate. This rig is designed to be a simple as possible and no simpler.
But more importantly, you can take what you learn from this project and apply it directly to your own characters.
This is the ultimate goal of the course.
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Wayne teaches you how to make a cylinder do the worm dance, how to make a gun turret spin around and go pew pew pew, how to make a crane pick things up and put them down, and how to make a cowboy sing "these hips don't lie" (Not actually, but he does teach you how to make a cowboy flap their arms, legs, and booty around in a brilliant fashion).
Wayne also teaches you the ins and outs of rigging - What an armature is, what a constraint is, what weight painting is, and how to set up drivers and custom properties to do some really neat stuff among many things. And also what happens when something isn't done quite right and how to fix it.
But most of all, he has a really great teaching style. He is very easy to follow along with, while keeping things positively entertaining. And most, most importantly, he gives fantastic feedback and it's incredibly clear he's passionate about helping others learn.
Thanks again, and I look forward to taking more of your courses!
The second half of the course was more difficult than I had imagined, but I was able to enjoy it all the way through. I look forward to taking the next course.Β Thank you for a wonderful course!
What a wild ride. Wayne's knowledge and experience with rigging is astounding. I learned so much and had a great time. (Wayne, I did pull out some hairs along the way!)
but, alas, the growth lies within the struggle.Β
I fear the taper from easy projects to more advanced projects was a bit much for me in part 5, but wow it was worth it. I'll keep practicing and making some cool rigs (and naming them).
10/10, you cannot miss this rigging course.
Thank you, Wayne and CG Cookie!