Blender 2.9 - Character Rigging Tutorial - How to Rig a Character

You guys have had some trouble with this, so finally, we're re-visiting character rigging.

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[KeelanJon]

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.

[denieltonn]

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

[smilyhorror]

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 ❤️❤️

[faizahmohammedaruwa]

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!!! 😭💖😂🤣

[markmilorov]

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 😊

[KeelanJon]

Shout out to the notification squad patiently waiting for new videos :D

[efrainprimero]

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!

[leticsampaio]

I've watched a lot of Blender tutorials to learn, but yours mate are 100% the fucking best. Thanks <3

[royalsarna]

YES finally ur back! I love ur blender videos!

[mauricioarturotorreszires]

Love your videos man, i was very afraid of blender and you make everything easy

[mubeenrahman_codname]

ive been stuck on this stuff for 2 days you literally solved all my probs in one video . thank you so so much

[akhilraj]

yead your channel is about to blow up man... its coming in reccomends

[ZammisHolc]

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.

[eilamgeva]

Thank you so much. my project turned out very nicely and I really like your style.

[JoshmStudios]

Rigify makes simple characters so much more usable. It’s a great and powerful rig

[LesterShipMirOleg]

Thanks a billion! You have no idea how much you've helped me as well as others.😀

[collinsk]

The best beginner tutorial on character rigging! Thanks.

[tonnysanty]

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! 🇧🇷❤

[jameys]

The “don’t mess with the Zohan” reference gave me a good belly laugh lol

[tomtrovert]

A thousand thanks Keelan Jon for the very good tutorial