CGDive Courses

Rig Any Character With the UE5 Manny-Quinn Skeleton

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Rig Blender characters for UE5 by aligning bones, assigning weights, and exporting with the Manny/Quinn skeleton.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Rig Anything with Auto-Rig Pro - Tutorials

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Master Auto-Rig Pro rigging techniques for humans, animals, and creatures in Blender through comprehensive tutorials covering everything from basic setups to advanced custom rigs.

• YouTube
• 7 hours 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Blender 4.0 Rigify - Dog and Quadruped Rigging - Part 5

Learn to rig a dog in Blender 4.0 using Rigify. Master techniques for aligning bones, upgrading face rigs, handling weight errors, and applying these skills to other quadruped animals.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Custom Rigs Theory in Blender 4.0 Rigify - Chapter 6-1

Explore Rigify's inner workings, learn about rig types, and create custom meta-rigs in Blender 4.0. Gain practical skills for advanced character rigging and animation.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Action Commander Review - Simplifying Animation Workflow in Blender

Simplify Blender animation workflow with Action Commander addon. Streamlines action management, creation, and application. Includes features for batch operations and target armature control.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Complex Human Rigging in Blender 4.0 with Rigify - Face and Fingers - Lecture 4

Learn to create a complex human rig with facial features in Blender 4.0 using Rigify. Master meta-rig alignment, weight painting, and troubleshooting for professional character animation.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Custom Rigify Rigs in Blender 4.0 - Theory and Practice - Part 6-2

Learn to create custom Metarigs in Blender 4.0's Rigify, covering spine, limbs, head, tentacles, and more. Gain practical skills in building complex character rigs from scratch with troubleshooting tips.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Custom Rigify Menus in Blender 4.0 - Part 7-1

Learn to create custom Rigify menus in Blender 4.0, including metarig collections, rig layers, and bone collection UI features. Enhance your character rigging workflow with advanced techniques.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Rigify Course in Blender 4 - Rigging Basics

Learn essential manual rigging techniques in Blender 4, including bone manipulation, parenting, inverse kinematics, and custom shapes. Gain a solid foundation for working with Rigify and creating effective character rigs.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Blender 4.0 - New Features in Rigify

Explore new Rigify features in Blender 4.0, including improved UI, enhanced leg and face rigs, spline tentacle rig, and ghost entries for feature sets. Learn practical applications and update guidelines.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Rigify Course: Ogre Rig - Fixing Bone Positions - Part 3

Learn advanced Rigify techniques for customizing and extending rigs, including weight painting, custom bones, automation, and rigging for clothing, props, armor, and faces in this comprehensive ogre rigging tutorial.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Rigify Course: Weight Painting the Upper Body - Ogre Rig Part 5

Learn advanced weight painting techniques for an ogre character's upper body, focusing on fingers, forearms, elbows, and torso in Blender's Rigify system.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Weight Painting 101 - Rigify Course for Two-Headed Ogre Rig - Part 4

Learn essential weight painting techniques for 3D character rigging in Blender, covering version-specific changes from 2.90 to 4.0 and key steps for effective weight distribution and bone influence.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Procedural Crowds Addon for Blender - Review-Tutorial

Install the Procedural Crowds add-on, get started with it, and prepare custom characters for use in procedural crowds.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Blender Pose Library Tutorial

Create, extract, tweak, and reuse character poses with Blender’s Pose Library and Asset Browser.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video