Rigging in Blender Pt.2. TOP 6 Characteristics of a Good Animation Rig

Here are my personal requirements of a good animation rig. Though this is a Blender video, these requirements are identical for any animation rig, in any 3D software.

Sample Rig Link:

Music samples from freemusic archive:
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[mitchelljao]

That was the realest intro speech about rigging ever. I respect that. I think I'll subscribe.

[MaxPuliero]

best introduction speech EVER! subscribed.

[maxungar]

that was a great intro. i've been trying to learn rigging for 3 weeks and have barely made any progress. i was trying to follow along with other people on youtube, assuming i'd figure out what things do along the way, but that has not been the case. hopefully after i'm finished with your tuts i'll understand the fundamental concepts better. cheers

[blueprintspecial]

Best intro speech in the history of Blender tutorials .... and beyond poignant and spot on...

[TV--]

That's super encouraging to learn what you said in the intro, that you were once a beginner also watching tutorials just like us. It's easy to implicitly assume pros have some kind of formal training, which could still be true, but Blender in particular seems to be taught chiefly through oral tradition!

[dragonscalesvr]

Love it. Finally a real person with actual input on starting out that matters. Thank you for keeping it real.

[cooliofir]

I came to this video ready to be pissed off that it would waste my time, but I'm moving on to the next video quite happy with my time spent here. Thank you so much for helping me learn these handy tips, I'm sorry I doubted your lesson.

[ClearlyCero]

That short animation actually made me smile; also, an amazing explanation of the rigging process!

[elmercurio]

The first minute of this video was funnier than 99% of "funny" videos on youtube and this is a video about rigging, great video btw, loving your content

[WeaselOnaStick]

80 seconds into the video and I already love your delivery. From heart, not tied to sponsorship/YT-algorithms, straight to the point language etc.
You really need to get this video out to people, like /r/blender 's wiki or something. This series doesn't deserve not to be seen by people!

[mycroft]

Thank you... it is next to impossible to find a detailed discussion of rigging best practices. This has been so good so far and I'm looking forward to binging the rest.

[aliyahfalcon]

im subbing just for your into LMFAOOO. on a real note thank you for actually explaining the why of things, I actually feel like im learning and not copy-paste-ing

[raiden-kun]

That intro speech tho HAHAHA. You earned a sub!

[renekimdk]

hey hey. just seen 30 sek of this video and your talking DIREKTELY to me. THANK GOD for this video series, DAMN i know that feeling you talk about. GREAT VIDEOS about riggin !

[danielhadad]

I loved your style, you're a wonderful artist and teacher!

[TuanHoang-oqvl]

I watched other many rig tutorials then I still cant rig well. I highly recommend you guys to watch this video series first before starting rigging your models. Thank you, Dikko for ur great videos.

[Zamarae]

Haha I love your commentary and I totally agree about focusing on fundamentals in the beginning, and I had the same trouble with rigging incorrectly and didn't fit my model for a final project...I spent nearly 12 hours just fixing it.

[ganymed]

I am happy that I found your channel, really nice introduction! Looking forward to watch the rest of the series :D

[Anula]

Hey, thanks for the video.
I do have a quite significant feedback though: this is not a video for complete beginners. I understand what you wanted to achieve here, to explain things so that people following will not end up in the situation you described at some point (having spent two weeks of their lives following a tutorial and then ending up with an unusable one) but this is not how it works :/ People who have no experience with rigging will get almost nothing from this video. They will need to get back to it once they understood how animation in Blender works, what constraints are, what is IK and FK, etc. For them (including me), this video is just a lot of talking but no actual information. It is like explaining engine braking to someone who doesn't know what gearbox is/has never driven a car before.
How to fix that? A few ideas:
1) start by making a very simple example of animation, so that here you can refer to things in there (eg "remember how we baked the transforms? Otherwise this and this happens")
2) advertise the course as one for intermediates. Judging from the comments a lot of people who understand what you are talking about watched it anyway and enjoyed, but this way you will not have bored beginners giving you dislikes and stopping to watch in the middle of video (which probably influences "the algorithm")

[LocutionJulia]

For that speech alone I have subscribed and will probably follow this tutorial to the end instead of the usual : giving up half way.