Bones are the building blocks of your rig. 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. 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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Mr. Wayne is very good at what he does, gives a lot of needed info but sometimes overshoots! Aside from that, I just needed to shift my learning method to how he teaches. Thank you, sir!
Instructor is really knowledgable, gives really insightful information and detail showing you how rigging works down to its core. You'll need to pay close attention, as the concept of it is not that difficult to gasp if you've been playing around with other parts of blender. That said, the instructor seems to slightly overcomplicate matters more than needed. A lot of areas could have been simplified further and still deliver same teaching and knowledge.
Thank you so much. This is such an intimidating subject and I really like the amount of depth the instructor went into. Very well done. I actually feel like I have a fighting chance at learning rigging now. Thank you! Highly recommended.
For me, one of the best courses on the platform. And Wayne is top 10/10!
I have struggle to understand rigging, but this course really helped a lot. The basic and theory with simple excercises really helps to understand it very well, Wayne is an amazing teacher and thanks for sharing your knowledge!!
This course gives you the theory and practice for learning to rig. If you want to animate anything it is useful to have an understanding how a rig works.
Learned a ton, captured the basics. Wayne is really awesome, thanks for getting me started with the fundamentals of rigging.
Wayne is the most knowledgeable instructor on the subject for blender in clear english. This course is all you'd need if you were looking to finalize your work in blender, but if you're looking for any info on how to use this in games, you'll have to look elsewhere for now.
Personally I'd love an additional video or two that shows us how to apply this to unreal or game engines in general if that's how it works.
I've been looking for a long time and there's only one course on the subject matter which is expensive and the instructor has a thick accent.
the free content on youtube just barely skims the surface.
Short version: 10/10 would recommend. Want to learn the bare minimum to be an effective rigger? This course is it. Want to get a solid foundation on rigging to become the best rigger out there? This course is definitely where you should start.
Holy moly, rigging is hard! Maybe even harder than animation. But in both subjects Wayne makes it look easy, and makes the learning process both entertaining and effective!
The lessons are very well structured and well paced, and I particularly love that some of those are designed to contain all the little bits you might want to return to for later reference, all in one spot.
I have taken the previous Fundamentals of Rigging and believe this one is even better. The addition of the Wrangler rig is a really nice touch and makes it more well rounded with real world examples.
Thank you Wayne for a tremendous course!
Amazing introduction for anyone new to this craft.
I have conceptually understood what rigging was for the longest time, this has not only lifted a lot of high to mid level question, but also explored them in detail without being overwhelming or hard to follow.
A must for everyone wanting to pick up rigging.