Blender Character Creation: Rigging 1/2

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Recommends HeadAnimatorForTDE · 2016-06 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Why can't I parent two bones together?”

I am trying to parent two bones together on the human body I made. For some reason, on 2.77, no matter what parent option I use, the bottom abdomen bone and the upper leg bone wont "connect" (as much as they can when it comes to parenting). I'm using this video to learn how to rig, but what it tells me to do doesn't match up with what is happening on my screen. Any suggestions, tips, or option changes I don't know about? Blender Rigging 1/2 [this video]

Cites Karol M · 2015-10 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Armature not affecting mesh”

I'm aware similar question was asked before, but anserws there couldn't solve my problem. Here is link to my (based on this YT turtorial [this video] ) model: [LINK] I was striclty fallowing instructions and when it came to parenting armature with mesh, problem started. Armature didn't afect the mesh at all. I checked the mesh and the the whole amature but it all seems to be like it should be. Even in weightg painting it was showing that all vertecies are asign to individual bones. Armature modifier also refers to vertex groups and when I uncheak it I could see my mesh reacting to it ( but only in this instance ). I need some help with this. I have no idea what is wrong and it slowy drives me a l

Cites Cubit · 2015-12 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “What are IK bones, and what do they do?”

I've been following this [this video] tutorial series, and he uses IK bones and the other types of bones that I've forgotten the name of (edit: since remembered, 'pole target'), a controlling bone under the foot and bone constraints. What are IK bones, and what do they do?

Cites GarryF · 2016-02 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Rigging my First Model - How do I IK rig the legs?”

This is my first character model I have made and am trying to rig. It is nothing complicated as I am trying to learn how to create and rig a character before trying to make things complicated. However, I can't figure out how to IK rig my character's leg. I have been following this tutorial [this video] , but once I get to the Leg ik.L bone things start to mess up such as the bone separating or the whole leg twisting to the right and left of the model very strangely. So, I decided to change the foot to a more simple style and I was hoping somebody would be able to help me IK rig the leg and foot. [LINK] Also, I plan on using the mirror modifier or tool to mirror the bones to the right side of the

Cites user33977 · 2016-12 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Parenting Armature to Mesh with Automatic Weights deforms Mesh”

I've been following a youtube video to learn about 3d modeling and adding armatures to meshes (video: [this video] ) and whenever I try to parent the armature to the mesh it twists and deforms the mesh. I done a good bit of research on what worked for other people have done to fix the problem and so far none of it has worked for me. So far I have reset rotation of all bones to zero, made sure the bones were mirrored perfectly,changed pole angles, and other things similar to this. None of these have seemed to solve the problem so far. Any and all help is welcome :) After parenting: [LINK] And my blend file can be found here: [LINK]

Cites IndR · 2018-04 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “part of a mesh doesn't move with the rest”

I was learning rigging using this tutorial [this video] , but when I add automated weights to the mesh and move its head hat stays in the same place . why does it happen ? all mesh parts are joined together . did I do something wrong /miss something ? Blender file [LINK]

Cites Lazarh · 2018-08 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Symmetrize bones not working as expected”

I feel like an idiot for not being able to follow this tutorial, but it seems things have changed. [this video] I dont want to follow the tutorial exactly because the FlipNames has changed, it leaves the .001 extension. If I select W>symmetrize parent bones stay on the left side, and only the children bones are copied(and parented to the left side). [LINK] Here's the file [LINK]

Cites stefanplc · 2018-08 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Rig with sticky feet and hands, how do I create arm swings? (ex: playing tennis)”

I've been using this tutorial ( [this video] ) to create sticky feet and hands for my character rig. Sticky feet I've noticed is pretty standard for character rigging but I also need sticky hands for climbing animations so the hands don't move from their position when the rest of the body is being pulled up on the side of a cliff for example. The issue I'm having is creating an animation for the arms similar to swinging a tennis racket so the hand basically moves from point A to point B following a path that's similar to half a circle. Simply putting the hand control bone at point A and then a few frames later at point B, makes the bone move in a straight line and not the circular motion that I n

Cites Hotpockets26 · 2018-09 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Mirrored pose problem (IK goes crazy)”

I have a problem when I try to mirror my run animation, the IK bones on the foot go completely out of control on the mirrored portion of my animation. The white keyframes are what I copied, and the yellow are the keyframes are the ones I pasted with (shift ctrl V) [LINK] [LINK] The IK bones go completely out of control in the mirrored portion of the animation. I used sebastian lague's amazing rigging video [this video]

Cites SamtheMan 6259 · 2019-06 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “What's the best way to do an IK rig for a stick figure?”

This is the tutorial I used for learning IK rigging. [this video] It's difficult to do this kind of rigging with stick figure legs, since they don't have feet and their legs are really close together in a t-pose. Is there a recommended way of rigging stick figure legs with inverse kinematics?