Hi all, just incase anyone has the issue, there seems to be a bug at the moment where the new rig won't show after pressing generate rig. I find deleting the Meta rig at this point makes it show up (You can then undo the delete to keep the meta rig). Hopefully this gets fixed soon.
I have a question tho, if I create a model that has eyes, nose, mouth and brows (similar to the one in your thumbnail) do i still have to remove the complex bones in the face? I want that model to be rigged so I could animate it and be able to make expressions out of it (I am very new here! :D)
you have to scale it or else the rig wont apply.But i do have a question because when i finished with the rig i tested it out and the chracter did not move with it only the rig moved.Please help
I feared character making, but your tutorials took me to track and I am now making 3d animated short stories with the characters I made with help of your tutorials. Thanks a lot ❤️❤️
Tips to consider if you're rigging for the first time: 01. if rig is not compatible with your character size, decrease character size, do not increase rig size 02. before making any changes to your character make a backup, put everything in a collection and turn it off from viewport and render 03. be sure to apply the scale on all objects that make up your character 04. make sure you apply all modifiers to the character (if you have a lot of modifiers just select all of them and go to object > convert > mesh, it gonna apply everything automatically) 05. make sure there is no inverted normal seriously i wasted 3 hours with these problems
Hey there, thanks for the comment and tips for the community :D I'm not sure I agree with all of these but everyone's characters and experience is a little different, so hopefully your tips help others
Oh my God-THANK YOU!!! I literally JUST finished your Stylised Character Modelling Tutorial (after weeks of straight procrastination) and I was stressing about how to rig and pose it when I came back to your channel and found you uploaded this! Miracles DO exist and happen!!! 😭💖😂🤣
If anyone mesh is disappearing when joining the bones to the character, you need to apply all mirror modifiers and if you used bezier curve, you need to convert it to a mesh firstly by selecting it then going to object>convert>mesh i hope that helps someone 😊
Hey can you make a TT how to model a cartoon pug and rig it pretty pls the cartoon pig image you can see it on my RUclips account image I can’t send you the link to the image for google cuz my comment will end up on a spam comment
Thanks man! You helped with all my trouble shooting issues in regards to weight - Made some costume characters of my friends and family and they looking good! The more detail I put on the characters, the more I had to watch out for the upper shoulders affecting the objects. But now I am set thanks to your hard work. You rock man!
Thanks for going through this again. I followed your previous tutorials closely and had issues rigging. Happy to see a new tutorial to give it another go.
Hello, I love your tutorials. Could you make one showing us how to animate a character once it's textured and detailed? I made one with your previous tutorials but the rig is broken, I'm not sure how or why it isn't working.
Hello, I have made a model with that style of yours, but when it comes to putting the rig on, with the clothes that I have put on it, it doesn't work well, I think it's because of the solidifier, do you know something to fix it?
Very good instructional videos, thank you. I follow along and have no issues until I try to bind the rig to the body, I then get "bone heat weighting failed.....". I haven't tried with your model yet, but mine are low poly.
Thanks for this! But for some reason it does not work for me. My character doesn't bend, it just stretches and contorts haha. And the clothes don't follow properly.
I previously modeled some faces elements ( nose, hair, mouth etc ) how can i make them stick to the skull ? I tried parenting them to the skull but then when I apply Ctrl+P Weight like you do at 14:45 it crushes all the face elements to the ground... Thank you for the tutorials !
Possibly try boolean modifier (union + apply) or possibly better, ctrl + j (join) to join the nose mesh to the head. (haven't tried in blender yet) If your looking for facial expressions, you have to make a "nose" bone, and parent the mesh to that one.
Hey! Great video! I have a question, I have done everything step by step, when I got to the rigging part finally, I try to pose the character, but the mesh is deforming, not letting me do anything. What do you suggest I do?
ThaAnks a lot to you)) as soon as my cards will work again because of sanctions or I will get a new ones - I sincerely want to donate for your videos, you help so much!!)) same here, wish you you the best in rest of the day)))
OO thank you, I will try again, it is much more explanatory especially since I do not understand English. Generate rig didn't work in the first one I tried. I was told of a Bone error... Merci beaucoup.
Question? When I Rig my model and pose it... the legs and other parts of the body sometimes show through the clothes... I know you have to weigh paint it... What is your way of doing this?
Hello! Thanks a lot for the tutorial! One question arose. Please tell me why the first part of the finger at the hands does not bend in this skeleton? It can also be seen in your video. 17:54 For example, what to do to make a clenched fist? Thank you!
The scaling bends the fingers, but if you want to make a fist, you’ll need to rotate that control point using R to bring the fingers into the palm. Hope that helps 😃
Thank you so much for your tutorial. I have one problem with rigging, shoes are deforming, when I try to move legs. How can I solve this problem? Everything works okay but shoes((
Hey thanks for the comment :) Depending on your model you may need to go in and do some manual weight painting to adjust areas where the automatic weighting doesn't calculate perfectly. I'll see if I can work on a tutorial for this!
sadly my rig didnt quite work, after following the steps im stuck at the (generate rig) part I g to pose mode and when I move the leg like you, the knees and everything doesn't move the way its supposed to, I don't know what could be causing this, I'll keep looking around and checking what I could be doing wrong.
Thanks for this awesome vid Jon! It was A LOT easier to follow using your character file. But one issue I got was when I tilt the head or bend the body over, one blob of hair doesn't follow along. Tried randomly fixing it with the "Weight Paint" method but it only got worse. Do you have an idea what might've happened? I'm afraid this could also be a same problem when rigging with clothes. Thank you!
Can you do rig one of your characters made with extruded single vertices? or it isn't going to work? How do I do a character that can be easily rigged like this one?
Hi! Thank you so much for the tutorial! But I have a problem connecting shoes to the rig. For some reason they are just not in the rig so I can't move the whole leg. I modelled them with you another shoe tutorial and put them to my character. Maybe you know the reason for that or where to read about this issue. Thank you!
Want to know if we can rig the character with clothing. Like should we rig the main body only or join all components for rigging? @Keelan Jon , Thanks in advance
hi, first thanks for ur tutorial,i use blender kit for character and when i want to parent rig with my character its disappear i converted both of them to mesh but nothing changed plz help
HELP. I keep having this issue where the clothing get distorted when I rig the body and move the limbs. I have followed all the steps and its still like this. I'm on MacOS
Aloha Keelan, when I add metarig and scale it to size the character mesh scales with it, how do I just scale the rig without the mesh like in the video?
Can you do an updated tutorial on how to make a character? I noticed that this video you are rigging a body that is one combined mesh. So when i tried to rig mine i had no idea how to model the legs from the torso mesh because the pants are the legs therefore i could not rig it properly
hey keelan, if i bought your render file, can i use it to make some pose and other stuff and use it commercially? like for ex i make a carrousel on instagram for my self or client can i make money with using your resource that i've purchase and made from it? basically commercial purpose.. also let me know what i cant do thank you
This was a great tutorial, but whenever I move my characters head, their eyes and their hair dont move with it, and also when i move the shoes the shoelaces dont move with it, and i cant seem to figure this out. how can i fix this?
Don't know if you worked it but I had the same issue and fixed it. Select the laces, right click and select join. The shift select the armature, switch it to Pose mode, (the laces should stay highlighted) then shift select the appropriate shoe controller and press CtrlP (Parent to) > Bone.
Hi there 👋😁 This is not just for low poly characters. If your character is more complex, blender may have a hard time auto applying weights. You'll likely need to do some manual work there, or select those objects individually.
Hi Keelan, amazing work here! Imagine you did the hair or eyebrows using a path (which in turn uses a bevel object), how would you ensure it would stay attached to the head after rigging? I am experiencing this dilema. No matter what I do, the paths will never follow the head of the character :/
Hi there, I dont use the path method for hair as it doesn't really match my style, but you could just parent the path to the bone you'd like it to follow and that should work 😁
@@KeelanJon Good call! I tried everything (hooks, parenting to another object, converting the path to a curve, etc) and nothing worked. This seems to do the trick! It will require some tweaking, as it is misplacing (location and rotation) the object as soon as it gets parented to the bone. Thanks for the tip!
When I click “automatic weights,” my Blender program freezes 100% of the time. Is there any work around to this? Or reason why this might be happening? I am working on an HP Pavilion laptop
Hey there, this can happen if your working with quite the complex model. I'd recommend keeping your character mesh as low poly as possible during the rigging process. Hope that helps!
@@KeelanJon thank you for your quick response! I tried to rig the character created from your Blender Character Modeling Tutorial uploaded 10 months ago and ran into the problem of Blender freezing upon rigging. I just changed all the Levels Viewport back to 1 and all the Renders back to 2, and it fixed the problem immediately. Now I can begin rigging. thank you!
Hi Keelan, I saw your video that sometimes you modelling human from basic shape (like astronaut), another video was modelling using shape and single vert with skin modifier. What's your considered when decided to choose skin modifier or only go through basic shape ?
Hmm I think its mainly down to the style of character I’m making, and their general complexity. I find the vertex and skin method is great for characters who need proper arms, legs, fingers etc. But there’s many different ways to go about this, those are just some quick and easy methods I find useful 😁☕️
I dont know why I cant seem to make it like you do im stressing out real bad T^T like the legs wont bend, and somehow when i move one foot the other's shoe followed!! T0T
Hey there, you may need to include more geometry on the legs for them to bend properly. And regarding the shoes, it's very common for those areas really close together to get some of their weight over lapping, that's where you'll need to pop into the vertex groups to do some manual weight painting. Try checking to see if any of the weight from one shoe appear on the other and then just remove it. Hope that helps 😁
Hi all, just incase anyone has the issue, there seems to be a bug at the moment where the new rig won't show after pressing generate rig. I find deleting the Meta rig at this point makes it show up (You can then undo the delete to keep the meta rig). Hopefully this gets fixed soon.
ohh thank you so much!
I have a question tho, if I create a model that has eyes, nose, mouth and brows (similar to the one in your thumbnail) do i still have to remove the complex bones in the face? I want that model to be rigged so I could animate it and be able to make expressions out of it (I am very new here! :D)
Hmm, I keep getting an error message - "generation has thrown in an exception list index out of range". Any ideas?
you have to scale it or else the rig wont apply.But i do have a question because when i finished with the rig i tested it out and the chracter did not move with it only the rig moved.Please help
omg ty!
I feared character making, but your tutorials took me to track and I am now making 3d animated short stories with the characters I made with help of your tutorials. Thanks a lot ❤️❤️
Tips to consider if you're rigging for the first time:
01. if rig is not compatible with your character size, decrease character size, do not increase rig size
02. before making any changes to your character make a backup, put everything in a collection and turn it off from viewport and render
03. be sure to apply the scale on all objects that make up your character
04. make sure you apply all modifiers to the character (if you have a lot of modifiers just select all of them and go to object > convert > mesh, it gonna apply everything automatically)
05. make sure there is no inverted normal
seriously i wasted 3 hours with these problems
Hey there, thanks for the comment and tips for the community :D I'm not sure I agree with all of these but everyone's characters and experience is a little different, so hopefully your tips help others
Oh my God-THANK YOU!!! I literally JUST finished your Stylised Character Modelling Tutorial (after weeks of straight procrastination) and I was stressing about how to rig and pose it when I came back to your channel and found you uploaded this! Miracles DO exist and happen!!! 😭💖😂🤣
If anyone mesh is disappearing when joining the bones to the character, you need to apply all mirror modifiers and if you used bezier curve, you need to convert it to a mesh firstly by selecting it then going to object>convert>mesh i hope that helps someone 😊
Shout out to the notification squad patiently waiting for new videos :D
You are the best teacher ever )
Ok request more tutorial about clothes
Hey can you make a TT how to model a cartoon pug and rig it pretty pls the cartoon pig image you can see it on my RUclips account image I can’t send you the link to the image for google cuz my comment will end up on a spam comment
I love your tutorials sir , please teach , how to rig character with clothes
@@keyurr.894Hey, thanks for the kind words. You only need parent the clothes to the rig and you're good to go! 😁
Thanks man! You helped with all my trouble shooting issues in regards to weight - Made some costume characters of my friends and family and they looking good! The more detail I put on the characters, the more I had to watch out for the upper shoulders affecting the objects. But now I am set thanks to your hard work. You rock man!
Love your videos man, i was very afraid of blender and you make everything easy
I've watched a lot of Blender tutorials to learn, but yours mate are 100% the fucking best. Thanks
YES finally ur back! I love ur blender videos!
ive been stuck on this stuff for 2 days you literally solved all my probs in one video . thank you so so much
The best beginner tutorial on character rigging! Thanks.
yead your channel is about to blow up man... its coming in reccomends
Thank you so much. my project turned out very nicely and I really like your style.
No problem 😁
Thanks for going through this again. I followed your previous tutorials closely and had issues rigging. Happy to see a new tutorial to give it another go.
Finalyyyy he is baaaaack
Rigify makes simple characters so much more usable. It’s a great and powerful rig
Thanks a billion! You have no idea how much you've helped me as well as others.😀
You're a really good teacher.
A thousand thanks Keelan Jon for the very good tutorial
Lovely video, love the yoga part 😍🤣💖
The “don’t mess with the Zohan” reference gave me a good belly laugh lol
Looking forward on your next video.
Hello, I love your tutorials. Could you make one showing us how to animate a character once it's textured and detailed? I made one with your previous tutorials but the rig is broken, I'm not sure how or why it isn't working.
I laugh with your yoga styling the guy in 17:00 lol. thanks for the video man...
Thanks for this tutorial.👍
Bedankt
Wool, I am so grateful for your teachings, I started studying a week ago and you have been helping me a lot...thanks for sharing your knowledge! 🇧🇷❤
Hey, no problem, you're very welcome :)
Yo....! Love your tutorials. Please keep this up man
Hiiii!!!! Welcome back!
I have recently started with blender and your videos are very helpful🫂
Thanks Keelan! Love your videos, you are an excellent teacher :)
Merci ! This one really help me to save time !
I was waiting for this. Thanks man
No problem ;)
Hey i’m French and i love ur tutorial ! Please can make videos for design a object like a camera ect
Hello, I have made a model with that style of yours, but when it comes to putting the rig on, with the clothes that I have put on it, it doesn't work well, I think it's because of the solidifier, do you know something to fix it?
Make sure you've enabled "Only Rim" on the solidify modifier. Hope that helps 😃
This was lovely. I even had a couple laughs in there😅
You are too good a teacher . Excellent Turotial.
Very good instructional videos, thank you. I follow along and have no issues until I try to bind the rig to the body, I then get "bone heat weighting failed.....". I haven't tried with your model yet, but mine are low poly.
Best RUclipsr ever!
Thanks for this! But for some reason it does not work for me. My character doesn't bend, it just stretches and contorts haha. And the clothes don't follow properly.
thats amazing! can you please do a video about walk cycle and animations?
Keelan you are amazing
I think it's you who is amazing ;)
Hi Keelan! Nice tutorial! How can I rig an eye similar to this model? I wanted to rig an eye like this to Blinking or stretching..
I previously modeled some faces elements ( nose, hair, mouth etc ) how can i make them stick to the skull ? I tried parenting them to the skull but then when I apply Ctrl+P Weight like you do at 14:45 it crushes all the face elements to the ground...
Thank you for the tutorials !
Possibly try boolean modifier (union + apply) or possibly better, ctrl + j (join) to join the nose mesh to the head. (haven't tried in blender yet) If your looking for facial expressions, you have to make a "nose" bone, and parent the mesh to that one.
Hey! Great video! I have a question, I have done everything step by step, when I got to the rigging part finally, I try to pose the character, but the mesh is deforming, not letting me do anything. What do you suggest I do?
I still experience same thing
ThaAnks a lot to you)) as soon as my cards will work again because of sanctions or I will get a new ones - I sincerely want to donate for your videos, you help so much!!)) same here, wish you you the best in rest of the day)))
it explains all i need to know. thank you
OO thank you, I will try again, it is much more explanatory especially since I do not understand English. Generate rig didn't work in the first one I tried. I was told of a Bone error... Merci beaucoup.
Hmm, I keep getting an error message - "generation has thrown in an exception list index out of range". Any ideas?
Question? When I Rig my model and pose it... the legs and other parts of the body sometimes show through the clothes... I know you have to weigh paint it... What is your way of doing this?
Thank you keelan!! You da best
13:17 I get an error: "Generation has thrown an exception: list index out of range"
Hello! Thanks a lot for the tutorial!
One question arose.
Please tell me why the first part of the finger at the hands does not bend in this skeleton? It can also be seen in your video. 17:54
For example, what to do to make a clenched fist?
Thank you!
The scaling bends the fingers, but if you want to make a fist, you’ll need to rotate that control point using R to bring the fingers into the palm. Hope that helps 😃
@@KeelanJon R! Exactly! Works! Thank you so much! 🔥
your channel is great ♥️♥️🙏
THAAANK YOU! Totally awesome tutorial! Thank you!
You're welcome :D
Thanks a lot! I have a problem that every time I activate "with automatic weights" the computer stops and won't go away. How do I solve this?
eXcellent! Supa goooood! Great Thanks! Very Useful!
im new here, i love your works
Enjoyable video!❤
Thanks so much for your tutorial!! they help me a lot in this world of blender!!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Excellent service!
Thank you so much for your tutorial. I have one problem with rigging, shoes are deforming, when I try to move legs. How can I solve this problem? Everything works okay but shoes((
Hey thanks for the comment :) Depending on your model you may need to go in and do some manual weight painting to adjust areas where the automatic weighting doesn't calculate perfectly. I'll see if I can work on a tutorial for this!
@@KeelanJon thank you 🤗🙏
hai, when i press " generate rig" , there's error message "bone spine : input to rig type must be a chain of 3 or more bones " please help me :(
Hello! When I manipulate my fingers to bend them they flatten, do you know why?
For first timers like me... you might need to add the rigify add-ons
sadly my rig didnt quite work, after following the steps im stuck at the (generate rig) part I g to pose mode and when I move the leg like you, the knees and everything doesn't move the way its supposed to, I don't know what could be causing this, I'll keep looking around and checking what I could be doing wrong.
yeah it was all messed up, im gonna have to try another day with your model character file.
Thanks for this awesome vid Jon!
It was A LOT easier to follow using your character file.
But one issue I got was when I tilt the head or bend the body over, one blob of hair doesn't follow along.
Tried randomly fixing it with the "Weight Paint" method but it only got worse.
Do you have an idea what might've happened?
I'm afraid this could also be a same problem when rigging with clothes.
Thank you!
A little late here but you can try parenting your hair or clothes to the bones with automatic weights
Can you do rig one of your characters made with extruded single vertices? or it isn't going to work? How do I do a character that can be easily rigged like this one?
all is perfect, thx so much,learn a lot .(just a little advice, the camera transition made me feel dizzy.）=-=
I dont know what the issue is but, when i try to create the rig myself, it dosent work but when i follow the video it works for some reason.
Hi! Thank you so much for the tutorial! But I have a problem connecting shoes to the rig. For some reason they are just not in the rig so I can't move the whole leg. I modelled them with you another shoe tutorial and put them to my character. Maybe you know the reason for that or where to read about this issue. Thank you!
Want to know if we can rig the character with clothing. Like should we rig the main body only or join all components for rigging?
@Keelan Jon , Thanks in advance
don't mess with zohan 17:00 ya i watched funny movie😂😂. it is easy and effective tutorial thanks
why can't I click generate rig? when I click I t pop up "list index put of range"
hi, first thanks for ur tutorial,i use blender kit for character and when i want to parent rig with my character its disappear i converted both of them to mesh but nothing changed plz help
The best one thank you bro ❤❤❤
HELP. I keep having this issue where the clothing get distorted when I rig the body and move the limbs. I have followed all the steps and its still like this. I'm on MacOS
Aloha Keelan, when I add metarig and scale it to size the character mesh scales with it, how do I just scale the rig without the mesh like in the video?
Dammit I get stuck when I have to use the 'N' menu because my menu doesn't show up 😢
Hey man really enjoy your videos!
BTW would you do a tutorial rigging faces?
Can you do an updated tutorial on how to make a character? I noticed that this video you are rigging a body that is one combined mesh. So when i tried to rig mine i had no idea how to model the legs from the torso mesh because the pants are the legs therefore i could not rig it properly
New character modeling tutorial coming right up 😉
@@KeelanJon thank you so much!!! I really appreciate it so much!!!
I did everything, but the posemode isnt moving anything :9 so frustrating this.
could you show how you made the hoodie in your banner?
Hi, I love the video! In case that my character has clothes how is the process?
Same, it'd be great to have some guidance on that :)
I followed the steps at min 18:15 and it worked: ruclips.net/video/SY17YJHMMMQ/видео.html
the automated weight is not working for me ? is it because my geometry is a bit complex ?
how do you mirror the bones movement? Mine can only move one bone at a time
Could you make a rigging tutorial for the face?
hey keelan, if i bought your render file, can i use it to make some pose and other stuff and use it commercially? like for ex i make a carrousel on instagram for my self or client can i make money with using your resource that i've purchase and made from it? basically commercial purpose.. also let me know what i cant do thank you
This was a great tutorial, but whenever I move my characters head, their eyes and their hair dont move with it, and also when i move the shoes the shoelaces dont move with it, and i cant seem to figure this out. how can i fix this?
Don't know if you worked it but I had the same issue and fixed it. Select the laces, right click and select join. The shift select the armature, switch it to Pose mode, (the laces should stay highlighted) then shift select the appropriate shoe controller and press CtrlP (Parent to) > Bone.
Hii, what is this tutorial only for low poly? i try to high poly in generate rig i have a problem bone heat weighting failed:( thx for tutorial ❤
Hi there 👋😁 This is not just for low poly characters. If your character is more complex, blender may have a hard time auto applying weights. You'll likely need to do some manual work there, or select those objects individually.
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Hi Keelan, amazing work here! Imagine you did the hair or eyebrows using a path (which in turn uses a bevel object), how would you ensure it would stay attached to the head after rigging? I am experiencing this dilema. No matter what I do, the paths will never follow the head of the character :/
Hi there, I dont use the path method for hair as it doesn't really match my style, but you could just parent the path to the bone you'd like it to follow and that should work 😁
@@KeelanJon Good call! I tried everything (hooks, parenting to another object, converting the path to a curve, etc) and nothing worked. This seems to do the trick! It will require some tweaking, as it is misplacing (location and rotation) the object as soon as it gets parented to the bone. Thanks for the tip!
When I click “automatic weights,” my Blender program freezes 100% of the time. Is there any work around to this? Or reason why this might be happening? I am working on an HP Pavilion laptop
Hey there, this can happen if your working with quite the complex model. I'd recommend keeping your character mesh as low poly as possible during the rigging process. Hope that helps!
@@KeelanJon thank you for your quick response! I tried to rig the character created from your Blender Character Modeling Tutorial uploaded 10 months ago and ran into the problem of Blender freezing upon rigging.
I just changed all the Levels Viewport back to 1 and all the Renders back to 2, and it fixed the problem immediately. Now I can begin rigging. thank you!
Hi Keelan, I saw your video that sometimes you modelling human from basic shape (like astronaut), another video was modelling using shape and single vert with skin modifier.
What's your considered when decided to choose skin modifier or only go through basic shape ?
Hmm I think its mainly down to the style of character I’m making, and their general complexity. I find the vertex and skin method is great for characters who need proper arms, legs, fingers etc. But there’s many different ways to go about this, those are just some quick and easy methods I find useful 😁☕️
@@KeelanJon ahhh okay.. Thankyou for replying and making video! You are always amazing💪☕
I am from Russia and.... thank you for the video
Hey! tried it for 6 hours but everytime my fingers just bend on side and shoe laces do not move
Why when I press generate rig it does it next to it instead of on it?
why is my generate rig is different compare to yours keelan??
Could you do a video on how to rig a face and face animation?
I dont know why I cant seem to make it like you do im stressing out real bad T^T like the legs wont bend, and somehow when i move one foot the other's shoe followed!! T0T
Hey there, you may need to include more geometry on the legs for them to bend properly. And regarding the shoes, it's very common for those areas really close together to get some of their weight over lapping, that's where you'll need to pop into the vertex groups to do some manual weight painting. Try checking to see if any of the weight from one shoe appear on the other and then just remove it. Hope that helps 😁
hey i follow your instruction but the fingger of my rig is terrifying 😭, can you make next tutorial about rigging fingger. thanks ❤️❤️❤️