Learning Character Rigging with Blender’s Rigify Add-on

Todor Nikolov’s Rigify tutorial series explains armatures, meta-rigs, custom character rigs, bone groups and posing in Blender.

Archive notice: This article was originally published on 24 November 2020 and has been translated into English as part of Digital Production’s archive project.

Rigify tutorial series

3D artist Todor Nikolov’s tutorial series explains his character-rigging workflow with Blender’s Rigify add-on. The first, free section was organised into eight chapters.

Topics included armature basics, the Rigify workflow, prebuilt and combined “Frankenstein” meta-rigs, rig types, reconstructing a human meta-rig, building a custom alien rig, bone layers and groups, and posing with Rigify.

At publication, the Video Manual module cost US$15 and the Advanced Sessions cost US$25.

Further information

The course was available from CG Dive.

Rigify Course Promo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAybsWgEC08