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This guy!!!!! So glad you're doing this stuff for free! We've went from concept, modelling, texturing and now we're rigging :D Super excited and honestly appreciate your time and effort in teaching this, and to everyone who's been watching, you guys rock too!
i like how you mention that there are other people that rig faces differently, but when i search for them they are all the same and they don't do it from scratch like you. im glad to find this video
I have been stressing out about Rigging the mouth and I cant believe the auto weights worked pretty much perfectly. Like I feel 10 times less stressed. You're video's are amazing!
This is great! I've taken rigging courses before, but the face was always so complicated. This has so much functionality with such a simple setup. Looking forward to the next one!
Thank you im happy to find a channel that teach how to rig a body manually and without meta rig in blender. Not that rigify is bad. I want to learn from scratch to see which constraints for which body parts or functions i should use .
You uploaded this the day i decided to go ahead and do it on my own- Anyways thx for the epic tutorials, ive followed your modelling for animation tutorial and now this rigging series, thx for all the help!
Xup Dikko! Thanks for this rigging tutorial. It is by far the most precise and straight-forward rigging tutorial I have seen that is free. I really appreciate the efforts you put in to give us these amazing tutorials. I look forward to the eyes and mouth rigging clip. Once again, thanks.
NGL, I regret not finding this channel earlier! And I have been struggling with facial rigging for weeks and this video is very helpful. Thanks for putting this together.
Dude THANK YOU. I’ve looked for a week and a half on how to make face skeletons from scratch and so far this is by far the most helpful. The meta-rig process is way too complicated to see what you’re even doing, so doing it from scratch actually seems easier. 😂
Once you get an understanding of whats going on under the hood, migrating to a rigging plugin is much less daunting (especially if you want to fix things manually!)
At 14:00 it says renamed 10 bones because symmetry is available and is renaming the opposite 5 bones as well, which is not ideal because your right ear bones are also named with (.L). You can deactivate symmetry if you're renaming the bones so you can differentiate them by Right and Left (.R) (.L) ... Well at least in my case it renames everything with (.L) On his case it renamed the right side ears as (.R)
Oh wow. I didn't expected so many bones for the face. I was used for so long to do 2-3 bones and make tons of morphs for expressions, but these bones helped me a lot for my anthropomorphic dragon. She got some big ear fins and adding a few bones with copy rotation given me plenty of control with such ease.
@@FyresGames I mean, there are website where you can upload photos to and convert it to link, so you could screenshot your model and do that, then put the link in here.
Facial rigging has gotta be my favorite out of any rigging, thanks for doing it justice! Will you be covering how to rig flowing objects like long hair, coats, and scarves some day? I imagine it'd be short and possibly easy, but I'm curious if you've got a method that could make rigging that stuff easier.
There is a way to do stuff like ponytails and scarves pretty easily - Might not neccesarily be covered in this series, but it's definitely something that can be covered in a single video :)
I don't know if this is ideal, but I have used spline IK chains down the length of the object with controllers for the start, midpoint and end of each spline (like in the spline IK videos in this series). Then if I have multiple such chains in the object (like for a cape or skirt), I use a master controller for each "level" (so "start master" is the parent to all the "start" handles). That lets me move all the handles on the same level at the same time, so i can stretch and turn the object more naturally but also tweak individual handles if needed. So Master control -> individual tweak controls -> spline with hook modifiers -> spline IK constraint on the bone chains
14:00 not sure if you had the same thing happen, but when I did this when I renamed the crown of the head it renamed both the left and right side as DEF_Scalp.L.SomeNumber because I had symetrize on the X axis turned on. Simply turning Symetrize off, renaming both sides, then turning it back on does the trick perfectly
Hey mate, not sure if anyone else told you but I think it renamed 10 bones instead of 5 at 14:00 because it was symmetrized? If you look at the naming convention the numbers go up in 2's to account for the other side. I'm making this creature that basically has a cylindrical face with a wide mouth going across it. I need it to bend in a u shape up and down which should be relatively easy to do but then I also want his head to stretch into a circle with his mouth gaping open, probably need some shape keys etc. I imagine none of that made any sense haha but hoping I can rig it up based off of this very thorough tutorial!
What was the reason for aligning the upper and lower jaw mechanism bones with the aim bone, as opposed to defining the Copy Rotation as Local Space and keeping them aligned with the central lip deformation bones? I can understand having the two bones because I assume you'll use them to parent all the subsequent lip deformation bones, but realigning them the the middle point like that confused me. Or is that going to play into general mouth manipuation further down the line?
OK, having watched the following 2 videos and seeing how you finished the face rig, I think I understand now. By having those bones come together you're assuring that 0º is a properly closed mouth, rather than having it at 8º or some other number.
Hi! I love your tutorials have been following them and making my own character along with you! It's been great! The only problem I've run into so far is when I try to do the lip seal. I can't get the mesh to seal correctly and adding more bones to the lower lip just causes it to get distorted when the mouth opens completely. How did you manage to make the mesh work so seamlessly with automatic weights and only one bone for the lower lip/jaw?
The trick I find is to have the lips close to each other but not overly intersecting. Also you you need to make sure that something like the jaw bone isnt affecting the lips in the weight paints (or the tongue bones especially!)
@@Dikko Thank you for your reply! I I think the initial problem was my bones were too big so only the top of the bone was affecting the mesh causing the distortion. The second issue was the mouth size. I realized I needed the extras bones for the mouth to close properly due to the distance being greater from the center bone to the edge of the mouth. Thank you for your help and for reaching out even though you have a lot going on! Best of wishes for you and your family!
So far the reason for me has been loose geometry and what seems to fix it mostly is to go to edit mode on the mesh, press P and select "separate by loose parts", go back to object mode, parent all the parts to the armature, then join the parts back together with ctrl-J. It doesn't work perfectly, some loose parts that are near/intersecting one another will probably get slightly different weights which will cause clipping issues, but it gets it close.
Love the tutorials. They've helped me alot since starting blender and learning rigging from scratch. Will you be doing a tutorial for blendshapes in your rigging series? Either way, thanks Dikko! You are a legend.
@@Dikko Sweet! Also by blendshapes I meant corrective ones when moving bones around such as eyelids and cheek puffs. Can't wait to see how you build the mouth! Thanks :D
this videos has been very helpful whit my first proper rig in blender (is mechanical doll thing) but i'm a bit stuck with something, is probably nothing and probably won't affect the end result but after adding the bones to the face that controls the faces and the inners parts because the face can open, when i do ctrl+p to add the bones to the weights it add a bunch of MCH_IK bones, i've check, they have the deform tick off, is mostly annoying and like I said probably wont affect the end result after I weight it to the correct face bones, but is annoying seeing those bones added to the weight every time i open that menu, any idea on how to fix it?
After this rigging series is done, what do you think your next tutorial series will be on? I'd love to learn the basics of animation in blender with the character we've created.
Hello :) if I remember correctly you said in the one of previous video that we can share our results of your tutorials, so how I can do that, I mean where I should send it? :)
I saw the head rig and I just didnt understand why theres so many bones. So the only purpose of all of those extra bones is so that you dont have to weight paint?
bro, listen. im like 2 months from finishing my 2nd year of graphic design degree, and for almost an entire year i've been dying to start your rigging tutorial on my model that i made last summer. honestly cursing my school for being in the way of watching your vids.
Not sure if this is worth the comment, maybe for anyone watching. If you rename the first bone after duplicating it - like for the ears or the scalp, then you don't have to faff around renaming them all afterwards.
Dikko or anyone, any idea why when i rotate it does not rotate as smooth as when you do it? No matter from what angle i rotate it seems it rotates only on 1 axis, the axis is different from each angle but its still 1 axis only. I cannot manage to rotate it freely like you do so that the tip of the bone goes where i want it to go, it goes only on 1 axis from any angle. Any tips?
ive been looking for this a long time. PROPER FACE RIGGING!!!!!!! edit: WTF? 1 bone for the upper lip and lower lip? I used to have at least 4 top and 4 bottom with 1 side. It never deformed properly.
@@Dikko Looking forward to this. I actually just finished texturing a new model. Next up is rigging :D Ill follow along with all the new knowledge and techniques!
I am trying to rig my chracter with rigify but my character also has clothes and it overlaps with body i have seen a lot of characters riger they remove the body beneath the cloth and join th clothes with th only part of body which can be seen, pleas tell me can we rig body such that there is no cutting of body and clothes doesn't overlap?
on mine the mouth isn't going all the way back up when I change the influence to 1 on the mch jaw bottom bones and the parenting is all correct and bones are moving correctly but the mesh isn't going with it but when I move the main jaw bottom bone the mesh does go with it how do I fix that?
I am trying to rig my chracter with rigify but my character also has clothes and it overlaps with body i have seen a lot of characters riger they remove the body beneath the cloth and join th clothes with th only part of body which can be seen, pleas tell me can we rig body such that there is no cutting of body and clothes doesn't overlap?
yes there is a way to rig clothing and still keep the body underneath. This plugin makes it easy :) blendermarket.com/products/voxel-heat-diffuse-skinning
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This guy!!!!! So glad you're doing this stuff for free! We've went from concept, modelling, texturing and now we're rigging :D Super excited and honestly appreciate your time and effort in teaching this, and to everyone who's been watching, you guys rock too!
i like how you mention that there are other people that rig faces differently, but when i search for them they are all the same and they don't do it from scratch like you. im glad to find this video
cant wait for rigging the mouth tutorial!!!!
I have been stressing out about Rigging the mouth and I cant believe the auto weights worked pretty much perfectly. Like I feel 10 times less stressed. You're video's are amazing!
I cannot thank you enough for the excellent content that you're putting out on rigging.
Glad you enjoy it!
THANK YOU for this tutorial man, you are the man
This is great! I've taken rigging courses before, but the face was always so complicated. This has so much functionality with such a simple setup. Looking forward to the next one!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you im happy to find a channel that teach how to rig a body manually and without meta rig in blender. Not that rigify is bad.
I want to learn from scratch to see which constraints for which body parts or functions i should use .
Back to back content lez go. Another piece of gold to add to the collection of tutorials.
Good luck :)
You uploaded this the day i decided to go ahead and do it on my own-
Anyways thx for the epic tutorials, ive followed your modelling for animation tutorial and now this rigging series, thx for all the help!
My pleasure :) good luck with the rigging!
Xup Dikko! Thanks for this rigging tutorial. It is by far the most precise and straight-forward rigging tutorial I have seen that is free. I really appreciate the efforts you put in to give us these amazing tutorials. I look forward to the eyes and mouth rigging clip. Once again, thanks.
NGL, I regret not finding this channel earlier! And I have been struggling with facial rigging for weeks and this video is very helpful. Thanks for putting this together.
Thabks dikko,
You're easily the best person to get help from regarding these topics. Bless you
Dude THANK YOU. I’ve looked for a week and a half on how to make face skeletons from scratch and so far this is by far the most helpful. The meta-rig process is way too complicated to see what you’re even doing, so doing it from scratch actually seems easier. 😂
Once you get an understanding of whats going on under the hood, migrating to a rigging plugin is much less daunting (especially if you want to fix things manually!)
Super super cool. Cheers for this Dikko. Proper amazing. You're an absolute legend
Thanks a ton!
Amazing, the best head rigging tutorial on the internet.
Worth following the whole series.
Thank you so much Dikko.
I love you and your tutorials so much!!! Thank you for all that you do.
Thanks its my pleasure :)
Holy sh*t, automatic weights actually do work that great! Mind blown!
At 14:00 it says renamed 10 bones because symmetry is available and is renaming the opposite 5 bones as well, which is not ideal because your right ear bones are also named with (.L). You can deactivate symmetry if you're renaming the bones so you can differentiate them by Right and Left (.R) (.L) ... Well at least in my case it renames everything with (.L) On his case it renamed the right side ears as (.R)
That happened to me too. While it's annoying, its not the end of the world. I'll definitely try turning off symmetry before I rename something though.
Oh wow. I didn't expected so many bones for the face. I was used for so long to do 2-3 bones and make tons of morphs for expressions, but these bones helped me a lot for my anthropomorphic dragon. She got some big ear fins and adding a few bones with copy rotation given me plenty of control with such ease.
You got to show me.
Not sure where I could join you to show.@@HappyGaminz
@@FyresGames I mean, there are website where you can upload photos to and convert it to link, so you could screenshot your model and do that, then put the link in here.
@@FyresGames or like discord or something, but I don't know if its a good option.
I'm fine with discord@@HappyGaminz
I havent worked on my blender project for two months. I felt so out of the loop. Great tutorial, I still managed to follow.
You're a KING! Bingeing your channel, learning so much!!!!!!
4 weeks man 4 weeks .... Dikko thank God you are alive :D
its been a very busy month :P
@@Dikko good things come with patience anyway. Keep teaching man you have my respects. :)
So good now I'm studying rigging
Good luck!
Thank u for the tutorial, there are not many good tutorials about rigging in blender yet so thats very helpful!
You're very welcome!
Oooooooo shnap. I've been waiting for this.
Facial rigging has gotta be my favorite out of any rigging, thanks for doing it justice! Will you be covering how to rig flowing objects like long hair, coats, and scarves some day? I imagine it'd be short and possibly easy, but I'm curious if you've got a method that could make rigging that stuff easier.
There is a way to do stuff like ponytails and scarves pretty easily - Might not neccesarily be covered in this series, but it's definitely something that can be covered in a single video :)
I don't know if this is ideal, but I have used spline IK chains down the length of the object with controllers for the start, midpoint and end of each spline (like in the spline IK videos in this series).
Then if I have multiple such chains in the object (like for a cape or skirt), I use a master controller for each "level" (so "start master" is the parent to all the "start" handles). That lets me move all the handles on the same level at the same time, so i can stretch and turn the object more naturally but also tweak individual handles if needed.
So Master control -> individual tweak controls -> spline with hook modifiers -> spline IK constraint on the bone chains
Haha. Man, you love that chewing action. So do I.
Thank you very much for this professional tutorial 🌹
Cool, liked and subscribed!
Thanks for the sub!
i havent watch but LIKE because i know its good and i need it, i´ll watch this video today later
Done, thank you for the tutorial. Can't wait for the next one.
14:00 not sure if you had the same thing happen, but when I did this when I renamed the crown of the head it renamed both the left and right side as DEF_Scalp.L.SomeNumber because I had symetrize on the X axis turned on. Simply turning Symetrize off, renaming both sides, then turning it back on does the trick perfectly
had to use this for work. thanks!
Thanks you so much for doing this tutorial can’t wait for the rest of this tutorial
Hey mate, not sure if anyone else told you but I think it renamed 10 bones instead of 5 at 14:00 because it was symmetrized? If you look at the naming convention the numbers go up in 2's to account for the other side.
I'm making this creature that basically has a cylindrical face with a wide mouth going across it. I need it to bend in a u shape up and down which should be relatively easy to do but then I also want his head to stretch into a circle with his mouth gaping open, probably need some shape keys etc. I imagine none of that made any sense haha but hoping I can rig it up based off of this very thorough tutorial!
What was the reason for aligning the upper and lower jaw mechanism bones with the aim bone, as opposed to defining the Copy Rotation as Local Space and keeping them aligned with the central lip deformation bones? I can understand having the two bones because I assume you'll use them to parent all the subsequent lip deformation bones, but realigning them the the middle point like that confused me. Or is that going to play into general mouth manipuation further down the line?
OK, having watched the following 2 videos and seeing how you finished the face rig, I think I understand now. By having those bones come together you're assuring that 0º is a properly closed mouth, rather than having it at 8º or some other number.
I need this!!
Wow thanks thanks thanks!!!
Hi! I love your tutorials have been following them and making my own character along with you! It's been great! The only problem I've run into so far is when I try to do the lip seal. I can't get the mesh to seal correctly and adding more bones to the lower lip just causes it to get distorted when the mouth opens completely. How did you manage to make the mesh work so seamlessly with automatic weights and only one bone for the lower lip/jaw?
The trick I find is to have the lips close to each other but not overly intersecting. Also you you need to make sure that something like the jaw bone isnt affecting the lips in the weight paints (or the tongue bones especially!)
@@Dikko Thank you for your reply! I I think the initial problem was my bones were too big so only the top of the bone was affecting the mesh causing the distortion. The second issue was the mouth size. I realized I needed the extras bones for the mouth to close properly due to the distance being greater from the center bone to the edge of the mouth. Thank you for your help and for reaching out even though you have a lot going on! Best of wishes for you and your family!
Blender automatic weights is amazing... when it wants to. Sometimes you have the "failed" message and you will have to do it all by hand.
So far the reason for me has been loose geometry and what seems to fix it mostly is to go to edit mode on the mesh, press P and select "separate by loose parts", go back to object mode, parent all the parts to the armature, then join the parts back together with ctrl-J.
It doesn't work perfectly, some loose parts that are near/intersecting one another will probably get slightly different weights which will cause clipping issues, but it gets it close.
Thank you for these videos! Do you know how many videos are left of the rigging series?
Probably 2 or 3 I reckon.
Love the tutorials. They've helped me alot since starting blender and learning rigging from scratch. Will you be doing a tutorial for blendshapes in your rigging series? Either way, thanks Dikko! You are a legend.
Next video or so, I can perhaps cover blend shapes :) But im still deciding how to approach the mouth movement for this series :)
@@Dikko Sweet! Also by blendshapes I meant corrective ones when moving bones around such as eyelids and cheek puffs. Can't wait to see how you build the mouth! Thanks :D
I was waiting for this part thank you :)
Waiting for "Dikko Here". Thanks for video
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this videos has been very helpful whit my first proper rig in blender (is mechanical doll thing) but i'm a bit stuck with something, is probably nothing and probably won't affect the end result but after adding the bones to the face that controls the faces and the inners parts because the face can open, when i do ctrl+p to add the bones to the weights it add a bunch of MCH_IK bones, i've check, they have the deform tick off, is mostly annoying and like I said probably wont affect the end result after I weight it to the correct face bones, but is annoying seeing those bones added to the weight every time i open that menu, any idea on how to fix it?
After this rigging series is done, what do you think your next tutorial series will be on? I'd love to learn the basics of animation in blender with the character we've created.
It will likely be animation related :)
@@Dikko Can't wait!!
Thank You :)
thank you for this
No worries :)
Thanks for the video dikko!
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Hello :) if I remember correctly you said in the one of previous video that we can share our results of your tutorials, so how I can do that, I mean where I should send it? :)
champion! thank you
My pleasure :)
I saw the head rig and I just didnt understand why theres so many bones. So the only purpose of all of those extra bones is so that you dont have to weight paint?
No it's so you can control the mouth in a more robust fashion
I guess that for the teeth, tongue and all the inner-mouth stuff, it's better to model them apart from the body mesh. Is that true?
yes, I personally put them as theyre own object.
@@indefinitescreamingskull2172 Thank you for the answer.
After I rigged my character and move them in pose mode, I seem to get very pixelated/boxy looking deformity in my mesh. Am I doing something wrong?
Put the armature modifier at the top of your modifier stack for your objects
Thank you!!!!
It will be this week sometime. I have no planned schedule due to the amount of real world work I have!
bro, listen. im like 2 months from finishing my 2nd year of graphic design degree, and for almost an entire year i've been dying to start your rigging tutorial on my model that i made last summer. honestly cursing my school for being in the way of watching your vids.
Same, every day I want to work on my model but can't :/ my last exam ends in 2 days though, luckily. Stay strong bro, keep working
Not sure if this is worth the comment, maybe for anyone watching. If you rename the first bone after duplicating it - like for the ears or the scalp, then you don't have to faff around renaming them all afterwards.
Dikko or anyone, any idea why when i rotate it does not rotate as smooth as when you do it? No matter from what angle i rotate it seems it rotates only on 1 axis, the axis is different from each angle but its still 1 axis only. I cannot manage to rotate it freely like you do so that the tip of the bone goes where i want it to go, it goes only on 1 axis from any angle. Any tips?
double tap R to get freeform rotation :)
ive been looking for this a long time. PROPER FACE RIGGING!!!!!!!
edit:
WTF? 1 bone for the upper lip and lower lip?
I used to have at least 4 top and 4 bottom with 1 side. It never deformed properly.
There will be other additions in the next video :)
@@Dikko Looking forward to this. I actually just finished texturing a new model. Next up is rigging :D Ill follow along with all the new knowledge and techniques!
I am trying to rig my chracter with rigify but my character also has clothes and it overlaps with body i have seen a lot of characters riger they remove the body beneath the cloth and join th clothes with th only part of body which can be seen, pleas tell me can we rig body such that there is no cutting of body and clothes doesn't overlap?
on mine the mouth isn't going all the way back up when I change the influence to 1 on the mch jaw bottom bones and the parenting is all correct and bones are moving correctly but the mesh isn't going with it but when I move the main jaw bottom bone the mesh does go with it how do I fix that?
Can we bake different parts of mesh and can map a universal map for whole object but we want to map the universal map joining the separate bake maps
when is the next one dikko? i am waiting patiently :)
Hopefully this weekend. I have had a busy week!
@@Dikko yes... thank you Dikko. Take your time king. You are helping so much you don't even know. The mouth rig been very tedious for me.
You're awesome1
I was waiting)
Would you do a tutorial on lip synching...like a character talking
When I start an animation tutorial series I will :)
@@Dikko ok
at 18:29 you rotate the duplicated bone around the head of the bone I edit mode.... how? I can only get it to rotate round the centre?
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Eyebrows will come in the next video :)
thank you for this
I am trying to rig my chracter with rigify but my character also has clothes and it overlaps with body i have seen a lot of characters riger they remove the body beneath the cloth and join th clothes with th only part of body which can be seen, pleas tell me can we rig body such that there is no cutting of body and clothes doesn't overlap?
yes there is a way to rig clothing and still keep the body underneath. This plugin makes it easy :) blendermarket.com/products/voxel-heat-diffuse-skinning
@@Dikko thanks alot