Weight Painting Courses and Certifications

CGDive

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
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Dikko

Character Rigging in Blender - Weight Painting Tips and Techniques

Discover advanced weight painting techniques for character rigging in Blender, including smoothing, high-poly meshes, clothing, and time-saving plugins.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Pierrick Picaut

This Blender Trick Makes Weight Painting Easy

Master a simple trick to achieve perfect weight painting on complex meshes in Blender, making character rigging effortless for detailed surfaces.

• YouTube
• 12 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CGDive

Rigging - Level 1: Solid Weight Painting Workflow

Master a reliable weight painting workflow for rigging in Blender, including techniques for automatic weights, bone shapes, colors, and collections to create effective character rigs.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Envato Tuts+

Voodoo Doll Rigging - Weight Painting on Face

Learn advanced weight painting techniques for facial rigging on a voodoo doll character, enhancing your 3D animation skills and creating more expressive digital characters.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CGDive

Rigify Course: Weight Painting the Lower Body of an Ogre Rig - Part 9

Aprenda técnicas avançadas de weight painting para o corpo inferior de um ogro usando Rigify no Blender. Domine a criação de rigs personalizados e flexíveis.

• YouTube
• 12 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CGDive

Knee Weight Painting for Two-headed Ogre Rig - Part 10-2

Master weight painting techniques for rigging knees in Blender's Rigify system through hands-on demonstration and practical application.

• YouTube
• 10 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CGDive

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
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CGDive

Advanced Weight Painting in Blender Rigging - Part 6

Master advanced weight painting techniques in Blender rigging, including support bones, vertex group locking, custom brushes, and specialized approaches for different body areas like feet, knees, chest, and head.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Alan Balodi - 3D Tutorials

Game Character Rigging and Weight Painting - Part 8

Master character rigging techniques and Paint Weights Tools to perfect your 3D model's movement and animation, ensuring smooth and professional-looking results in Maya.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CGDive

What You Don't Know About Weight Painting - Rigging Level 2

Dive into advanced weight painting techniques in Blender rigging, from cleaning automatic weights to manually assigning weights for different body parts like hips, head, neck, and teeth.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Packt

3D Character Rigging in Blender

Master professional character rigging in Blender through hands-on techniques covering bones, weight painting, IK/FK controls, and shape keys for realistic 3D animation workflows.

• Coursera
• 10 hours 12 minutes
• On-Demand
• Paid Course

Packt

Advanced Blender Techniques for Realistic Vegetation

Master advanced Blender techniques to create hyper-realistic vegetation, from delicate flowers to underwater plants. Elevate your 3D scenes with vibrant, lifelike environments using particle systems, sculpting, and optimized texturing.

• Coursera
• 7 hours 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Paid Course

Packt

Blender Geometry Nodes for Beginners - Foliage Scatter

Master procedural foliage creation in Blender using Geometry Nodes to scatter grass, generate flowers with curves, add leaves, and control density through weight painting techniques.

• Coursera
• 4 hours 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Paid Course

Blender Guru

Blender Beginner Tutorial - Geometry Nodes

Learn to create a sprinkle scattering system using Blender's geometry nodes and new fields system in 3.0, covering node types, scattering techniques, and advanced concepts like weight painting and Poisson disk sampling.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video