[Blender 2.8~3.6] Rigify Tutorial #08 - Posing the Rigify rig
Why Blender Stack Exchange recommends it
Blender Stack Exchange answerers point people to it when they are confused by Rigify's FK/IK controls, the IK-FK switch, or tweak bones on a generated rig.
Recommended by 4 people across 5 different months, 2020 to 2023.
What it is
A 34-minute Blender tutorial by CGDive on posing a character rigged with Rigify. It tours the generated rig's controls (arms, legs, torso, head, shoulders, tail, tweak bones), explains FK versus IK, and finishes by posing the character.
What people said
Recommends CGDive · 2020-11 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Rigify - what are tweak bones,and what do they do?”
They allow you to deform your character with a lot of freedom. This can be useful for cartoony animation... although if you don't go too extreme with them, you could possibly use them to create realistic motion. I have a video where I explain a bit about them: [this video]
Recommends Blunder · 2021-07 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Beginner Animator: Unable to unify FK & IK in animation (footage of issue linked)”
Rigify's generated rig comes with FK and IK control bones. The meta rig is just used to align everything in its place. The FK (green) and IK controls (red) work independently from each other. Default is IK. In the N -panel there are buttons in the Rig Main Properties section. There, you can switch between IK and FK with the IK-FK ("bone name") slider (0=IK, 1=FK). Or use the snap buttons IK->FK ("bone name") and FK->IK ("bone name") to copy the pose and sync them. [LINK] ( hand.L is the bone name of the left hand in this example) Tutorial video: [Blender 2.8/2.9] Rigify Tutorial #08 - Posing the Rigify rig [this video]
Recommends CGDive · 2021-10 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Rotating arms in Rigify”
As others have already explained, you're looking for the FK controls. Here it is in video format if you prefer :) [this video]
Recommends John Eason · 2022-01 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Some Parts Of A Mesh Not Moving With Generated Rig”
In rigify the green controls are FK controls and the red ones are IK. if you press 'N' to open the rigify control side panel you can toggle between them using the FK>IK switches . I suggest you watch this YT video [this video] from CGDIVE which explains how to use them.
Recommends Clare Hayward · 2023-10 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Rigify Rig Hands & Feet Locked In Place Error”
Thank you so much for this! I also found a really helpful video that explains the whole IK and FK controls situation very well for anybody else confused: [this video]