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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I was completely new to Rigging before starting this challenging course. I made several mistakes during the exercises that caused me to go back and figure out where I went wrong. I learned allot.
Thanks Wayne, your teaching style was top notch!
John
There's so much I appreciate about this course! For me rigging was this complex topic with vast amounts of information to digest and it frankly felt daunting.
Wayne did an amazing job of making the journey enjoyable, manageable, organized and, most of all, understandable. Explaining each part methodically and thoroughly, while keeping momentum, in a lighthearted and entertaining way is no small feat to pull off!
Thank you so much for being such an excellent teacher!
I originally come from a different 3D program, and when I first tried to learn rigging in Blender, I honestly felt quite frustrated. Switching between Pose Mode, Edit Mode, and Object Mode was really confusing for me. I didn’t know what I was allowed to do in each mode — moving bones only in Pose Mode, adjusting bones only in Edit Mode — all this back and forth made me feel like Blender wasn't much fun and just left me overwhelmed. I started to lose the joy of learning.
That's when I realized I needed a course. And I have to say: after taking Fundamentals of Rigging in Blender with Wayne Dixon, I finally have a much clearer understanding of how everything connects. I’m incredibly thankful to Wayne for his clear and structured teaching. Now I feel like I can actually continue learning and progressing — and for the first time, things really start to make sense.
Some parts of the course move quite fast, but that's totally fine — it just means I need to revisit certain lessons and work through them step by step. And that’s exactly how learning should be.
Thank you so much, Wayne, for putting together such a great course!
The tutorials provided clear instructions. The challenge exercises were just that—challenging, which is good. I learned more from this tutorial than any other tutorial I've completed before.
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.