Blender Rigify Tutorial - Long Hair, Body and Face
This video walks you through fully rigging a character's body, face and long hair using the free Blender plugin called Rigify. Steps: Preparing the mesh Creating the meta rig Creating the hair rig Weight painting This tutorial uses blender 2.9.3 Free models Turbosquid https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-model/f... CG Trader https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models?ke... DeviantArt https://www.deviantart.com/search/dev... Support me and pick up the official tutorial files TomCAT Patreon / tomcatcharacterarttutorials Look for the file "tut17-Rigify-BEFORE.blend" !!!! You can still do the tutorial just fine with any model that has a full body, separate eyes and separate long hair. Separate teeth and a tongue is even better !!!! Great Rigify tutorials CGDive • Blender Rigify Face rig - add Eyes & Teeth... Lollypopman • Add a Pony Tail rig to your Character - Th... 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:57 PREPARE MESH 00:11:05 Shrink the head and hair 00:16:15 Install 'Rigify' Plugin 00:17:22 META RIG 00:18:21 Place metarig 00:18:51 !Caution! 00:22:17 Knees 00:25:16 Arms 00:28:03 Fingers 00:33:25 Face 00:46:21 Eyes 00:48:37 Test rig 00:49:03 Fix default Eyes & Teeth 00:52:06 HAIR RIG 00:53:19 Add hair bones 00:55:33 Rename bones 01:01:21 Symmetrize hair bones 01:03:57 Create vertex groups 01:07:38 Parent the rig 01:08:35 Attach eyes 01:13:32 Attach tongue and teeth 01:21:13 Attach hair & vertex groups 01:31:46 Animate 01:44:39 WEIGHT PAINT 01:48:57 Mirror tool + vertex groups 01:49:29 Shoulder 01:56:53 Pelvis 02:01:34 Knees 02:03:36 Fingers 02:06:05 Elbow 02:15:02 Ankles/toes 02:18:38 Head/neck 02:22:01 Face animate 02:29:41 Weight paint face/mouth 02:35:22 Forehead 02:40:21 Eyes 02:51:39 Eyelashes 02:57:02 Hair 02:58:57 Fix hair rig control 03:02:24 Separate nape/weight paint 03:07:27 Separate left strand and add volume 03:14:55 Separate center back of outer hair/weight paint 03:21:49 Fix top strand of hair (copy weights - also used to add clothing_ 03:23:45 Separate left/right rear hair/weight paint 03:29:55 Weight paint Front strands of hair 03:36:55 Close
