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Francesco Siddi
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3: Rigging

Rigify Rigging P.1

Time to start the rigging process. We begin with the body using the Rigify addon in Blender.

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9 comments
sjly22
sjly22
May 8th, 2020

Can you guys update this to the new blender version, pleaaasee! It's really different

Ilia Dian
Ilia Dian
May 6th, 2019

I have a different rig for some reason, and this tutorial doesn't work with the pitchipoy rig i currently have. Is there a workaround for this?

andrew.jorden118
andrew.jorden118
Feb. 28th, 2018

there is no "generate" button in v2.79 of Blender, even in legacy mode. please help solve issue or re-upload a working tutorial with updated blender.

Stephen Petersen
Stephen Petersen
March 3rd, 2018

@andrew.jorden118: Just a thought, do you have Auto Run Python Scripts in Preferences-File?

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bonecurse
bonecurse
March 16th, 2018

@bonecurse: oh got it! The generate button only shows in Object Mode, I was still in Edit Mode

bonecurse
bonecurse
March 16th, 2018

@Stephen Petersen: I have the same problem. Tries enabling Auto Run Python Scripts, but it doesn't help.

Keith  Behrens
Keith Behrens
Sept. 18th, 2017

how do you zoom onto the hand with the camera?

Sandra Fischer
Sandra Fischer
April 25th, 2017

I sure hope the teaching gets better because this guy is no teacher. Too fast not explaining properly just hurrying through to get done. Why bother???

Stephen Petersen
Stephen Petersen
April 26th, 2017

@fairytalepups: Yeah why do you bother?

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