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#b3d #unrealengine #ue5 #rigging #animation Making tuts at CGDive https://www.youtube.com/@CGDive

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Hi, I still use Rigify and Auto-Rig Pro and whatever is useful at the time :)
But yes, I've been focusing more on manual rigging tools and techniques. I think you reach the limit of automatic rigs sooner or later so manual rigging is super important even if you use auto rigs as a base.

03.09.2025 06:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hey, this is a major mistake in the videos. Sorry about that.
Set the modifiers as in this image. Vertex Group only on the first one, second one has Multi Modifier on instead!
I'll have to make a correction for that vid...

30.06.2025 10:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bone deformations test with wrinkle maps

03.06.2025 02:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 44    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Scone + HYFYDY
Drunk Skely
#simulation #biomechanics

09.04.2025 22:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Blender-group / mixamo_blender4 ยท GitLab GitLab.com

For Blender 4.0 ~ 4.3 there is another version:
gitlab.com/x190/mixamo_...
For Blender 3.6 and earlier use the original Adobe version:
www.adobe.com/products/sub...

01.04.2025 02:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Mixamo addon for Blender 4.4 now has a new repository.
The addon still mostly worked but applying animations was broken because of the new Slotted Actions in 4.4. Thanks โจTinkerBoi for the fix!

So for Blender 4.4 use this:
github.com/BlenderBoi/m...

01.04.2025 02:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Blender 4.4: NEW Rigging and Animation Features
YouTube video by CGDive (Blender Rigging Tuts) Blender 4.4: NEW Rigging and Animation Features

I did an overview of the new Rigging and Animation features in Blender 4.4.

๐Ÿ“บ
youtube.com/watch?v=mv2_...

#b3d #rigging #rigip

29.03.2025 00:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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@drsybren.bsky.social Blender 4.4 slotted actions working like a charm! Body armature and geo nodes driven face rig sharing the same action ๐Ÿ˜€

#b3d #blender #geometryNodes

17.03.2025 11:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 50    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks so much for the kind words :)

21.03.2025 10:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
RAGE against the T-Pose! [Blender Short / Teaser]
YouTube video by CGDive (Blender Rigging Tuts) RAGE against the T-Pose! [Blender Short / Teaser]

And a YT link for less compression:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VzT...

21.03.2025 07:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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"RAGE against the T-Pose!"
I spent a bit too long working on this teaser for my course on Manual Rigging - to be released on YouTube in the coming days. It was fun. Hope you like it.
#b3d
More info about the course:
cgdive.com/blender-rigg...

21.03.2025 07:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Transparent bones with proper see-through selection is in the works. Nice!
#b3d #rigging
projects.blender.org/blender/blen...

23.12.2024 01:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What if the original point was an ad hominem?
Whataboutism can them be used to keep the convo to the their ad hominem and not allow me ad hominem them back ๐Ÿ˜

29.11.2024 23:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You should be :)

23.11.2024 23:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Still freaking proud of this arm rig

#blender3D #b3d

23.11.2024 20:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 147    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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2024-11-19 Animation & Rigging module meeting The meeting will be on 2024-11-19T11:00:00Z (UTC). It is open for everybody interested to join the video call (link below). People present are referred to by first name for brevity. Others are referr...

Today's Animation & Rigging module meeting notes:

devtalk.blender.org/t/2024-11-19...

#b3d #animation #rigging #development #meeting

19.11.2024 14:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ“บMaking Videos
- Record: ~1h
- Rough Edit: ~1h
- "90% Edit": ~4h
- Polish: A QUINTILLION YEARS

20.11.2024 04:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"fake FK pole" >>> oh, that's clever! That would be a simple and effective solution. Maybe not perfect but I think pole snapping is difficult/impossible to make 100% perfect anyway.

29.10.2024 23:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Oh SNAP! ๐Ÿ˜…
I managed to write a IK-FK snapping script. Rudimentary Python skills + ChatGPT = Power.
#b3d #rigging

28.10.2024 13:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#b3d ๐Ÿฆถrig

26.10.2024 07:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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