How To Make 2D Character Rigs in Blender

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In this video I showcase some of the 2D rigs I have created as well as give you step by step instructions on how you can create you own.
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DISCLAIMER: I am aware that these are not the best methods for rigging a model. These are the methods I used in 3 recent cartoons (unpublished), and I will be changing methods in the future to use only bones as controls instead of empties as I have now learnt that this is a better method. I will redo these tutorials in the future to show the new method. For now you may at least learn a thing or two about what blender is capable of.

Chapters:
0:00 Showcasing my rigs
2:54 beginning of tutorial, creating a new 2D file
5:32 Separating Body Parts
6:40 Creating the Armature and Bones
6:56 Head IK : simple inverse kinematics
13:33 Creating the Arm Bones
13:56 Using a Lattice to bend a Grease Pencil object
18:22 Working in 2D/3D space, correcting Z levels
18:59 Correcting the Lattice BSpline to Catmul Clark interpolation
19:26 adding IK poles for the arm
20:25 connecting the Hand
22:36 Mirroring the arm
25:25 Rigging the Legs
28:50 Correcting weird results of the Copy Rotation modifier
31:02 Mirroring the Leg
33:03 Rigging the Torso
35:00 Final Words

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[MumuMundo]

to those interested I finally managed to make a simple and powerful face and mouth rig (tutorial on my channel). Thanks Pleyland for your great insight !

[DavyGoestoHollywood]

Pleyland: "I'm actually doing the wrong thing here on purpose..." Me:"I'm just doing the wrong thing with no idea how or why..."

[polispaschalidis]

Thank you so much for this..!
The best rigging tutorial I've seen so far!
You deserve way much more recognition!

[fenneclocus]

Finally I found the video I searching for. Thnks man

[okayoni]

Thank you for this tutorial! I didn't expect you to start singing when you made him dance. XD. I loved it. Thanks again!

[Vinny]

Im not an artist but experimenting with 2d animation feels good. This is a really good tutorial for a beginner like me. things are slowly starting to click. I've chosen to work blender. Hope i can learn the skills and be able to work with other tools as well.

[yourgrandmashouse]

I’ve been trying to figure out how the fill tool works, the only way I got it working before was having to draw with it enabled and it wasn’t fun.
Thanks for this, if anyone asks me how I made my animations I’ll link to this video. Thanks man!

[vonpheusarts]

Thank you so much. Been looking for a clear tutorial and I'm really blessed to find you. Great and easy to follow tutorial. Thank you so much and more power to your channel Playland. New Subscriber here!

[Zipyio]

This was the most wholesome tutorial I've watched XD

[SleepingVikingStudio]

Thanks so much for this! This has been so informative.

[fo]

Your tutorials are really good, and nice characters, exactly what i had in mind.

[PainterWAC]

This is what I'm looking for. I will subscribe.

[lebaneseanimation]

thank you very much.. video very clear and helpful. im going to work with it

[ruslopuslo]

Thanks! I search this tutorial long time! 👍👍👍

[spaceman]

can't wait for part 2 of this video.

[piguman]

Hey cool tutorial, i have been trying to imitate a game's graphics and with this tutorial, it's easier than ever!

[inlasttonowhere]

Might I venture in saying - "I believe you are a old school/original Blender user". You've reverted the default user interface color from dark to light. Blender's old default from the 90's. Man, they've really exceeded everyone of my expatiation, even the ones I never knew could be. Cool upload😃✌

[ChrisHarnessTV]

Thanks for making this. I reckon it’s the most helpful Grease Pencil rigging video I’ve found so far.

[TibaToons]

Thank you. Blender is so powerful but my learning curve is so low compared to other animation software. But I keep tryin'

[ssabsonhe]

This is how Unity Y writers! thanks for the good video