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Demeter Dzadik
Demeter Dzadik Publisher
  • Free
  • Blender 3.6
  • License: CC-BY
  • 2 Jan 2024

Snow is a generic character rig you can use to learn and practice your animation skills, created by us here at the Blender Studio.

Notes on how to use the character

  1. Put your 3D cursor in the Origin of your scene. Choose File > Link and browse the character file
  2. Go to the Collections and select CH-snow. Make sure "Instance Collections" is enabled. Press Enter.
  3. The Collection should appear instanced in the Viewport. Select it.
  4. Choose Object > Library Override > Make.

The rig includes all the basic features you may be used to from Rain or our other production rigs:

  • IK/FK toggle and snapping for the limbs
  • Stretchy IK toggle for the limbs and spine
  • FK Hinge toggles and snapping
  • IK Parent switching and snapping
  • Layered face controls with shape key correctives
  • Designed with newcomers and pros both in mind
  • No add-ons required! All required scripts are included with the .blend and will auto-run when opening the file.

The rig is free to use, provided that the you respect the CC-BY license and include the credit: Snow Rig © Blender Foundation | studio.blender.org

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Snow Bar Scene

Snow Bar Scene

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Snow Parkour Animation

Snow Parkour Animation

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6 comments
Mike Lambert
Mike Lambert
Sept. 23rd, 2024

also just found out cannot access pose library for this model! the rest of the rig is working great just these couple things!

Demeter Dzadik
Demeter Dzadik
Oct. 1st, 2024

@Mike Lambert See my reply to the other comment.

Mike Lambert
Mike Lambert
Sept. 23rd, 2024

This is working fine with 4.2 but only thing I cant figure out is the layers are blank in the Cloudrig menu? Is there somewhere else I should be looking please? Character/settings etc are there, just layers are blank!

Demeter Dzadik
Demeter Dzadik
Oct. 1st, 2024

@Mike Lambert That is exactly the reason why the rig isn't currently recommended on 4.2... Bone layers were removed, and the pose library is now an asset shelf. I will be updating the rig soon for 4.2 though, I'd say just keep an eye out for that, and use 3.6 until then.

Ahmed Barakat
Ahmed Barakat
Jan. 25th, 2024

Any guides on how to update this to work with blender 4?

Demeter Dzadik
Demeter Dzadik
Jan. 31st, 2024

@Ahmed Barakat Hey, not really. I would like to go over all the characters in the library at some point, but there are currently a lot of other priorities, like finishing the Gold project and wrapping up  CloudRig for 4.1.

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