EASY and QUICK Character Rigging in Blender - Blender Basics Tutorial 

good to know, that seems to be an issue more people are having! thanks for the headsup and the solution you found!

I've tried this and still have no option for automatic weight. Do you know a fix?

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It's the issue of which object is Active. With Shift the last selected object is Active. With Ctrl the first selected object is Active. You need the Skeleton to be Active for the Automatic weight option to appear And if you want manual weight painting - you need the Mesh to be Active.

Glad it was helpful! Lots of practice is how you build your skill! once you have a good rig to work with, animation becomes a lot easier :)

happy to help out and save you some time :)

Great to hear!

if you follow blender Guru's donut tutorial, he goes over a lot of the basics of blender and I believe he also provides a 1 page document with a bunch of shortcuts as a cheatsheet to teach yourself what all the keys do. Certainly helped me a lot when i got started!

Glad it helped!

Awesome, thank you! I've been getting in the habit of going through and doing the whole process of what i'm about to make a tutorial for before i start the recording to help with exactly what you mention here so it's a little easier to follow along in the future!

Glad it helped!

Thanks! always happy to help :D !

Glad I could be helpful!

Any time!

you could very well just add new bones in edit mode instead of extruding them but this way they're already parented and connected properly, very nice quality of life improvement! If you're doing tentacles, this other video builds on the things I show off here, might be helpful to you too! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lc2-3zdeMak.html

Thanks! I'm happy it was helpful!

clothing can be a bit of a pain to deal with, in a general sense it's best to make the clothes part of your character model if you can (you can join objects together by selecting them and pressing ctrl+J). you'll likely have to manually fix up some things in the weight painting but it's the quicker route to getting clothes to work. if you have a lot of outfits that need to be swapped in and out, that can get a bit more complex to deal with though. (this is in no way the ideal way you're supposed to do it I believe, but it's the way I tend to do things, but frankly, most of the work I do, i tend to design my characters to need as little clothing as possible because I hate having to worry about things clipping through the clothes XD)

Glad it was helpful!

It is very much worth learning to do things from scratch. This is nice if you need to pose or animate something quickly but is also severely limited in its use. So I would say those 10 hours doing it step by step (which will also be a lot faster as you get more used to things) was well worth it if the goal of the whole thing was a learning experience:)

i have a few blender videos on the channel. later this year I plan to do a whole course for free here on youtube but it'll be a few more months before I get to that

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i'm not very familair with maya so i'm not really sure. sometimes i do see a little pinching in the elbows when posing things at very sharp angles though, I assume this is what you mean? I don't really have a quick and easy fix for that other that : A) make sure your weight painting is god (auto weight paints are pretty good but can be an issue) B) if you have very extreme pinching there is a good chance that the pose you're trying to make is unnatural as it is and maybe posing the shoulders a little different may help make the elbow angle less sharp and reduce pinching. It's not really an answer to your question but I hope it helps!

@@thegamedevcave These are valid suggestions. Thank you.

the auto wights probably are failing, that sometimes happens, trying again a couple of times can help (make sure the amrature has it's scale applied too, so it's scale should be 1,1,1) and if your character is not in a T-pose, you'll want to make sure you apply the rigging in a T-pose and then afterwards use your rig to put it in whatever pose you want. if all that doesn't work, manual weight painting it is, which is a pain to do but sometimes needed :(

Thank you! Walk cycle tutorial is noted down to make soo ! Its pretty intimidating but once you get the basics its not that bad :)

I've made a quick video on the basics of making a walking cycle! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T-c-bfKINI4.html&ab_channel=TheGameDevCave

i'm not sure exactly which version i'm using here but anything past blender 3.0 should be like this setup here i believe

you'll have to make or find your own mesh still

the version of blender shoulnd't make a difference as long as you're not using an ancient version. I'm guessing there is some sort of error that's happening when you're trying to parent with automatic weights. i can't be sure what exactly though.

My rig didn't attach when I used the shortcuts, but when I clicked on the same option in the Pose Menu, it worked. I don't know why, but my problem got solved.

If I’m correct is just keeps the bone and body disconnected You need automatic weights for blender to see them as one

that's a smart quick workaround! however, the best way to fix that would be to adjust the weight painting for those joints to not include the face :)

I'm having the same problem.

i'm not quite sure what could cause that problem. my best guess is that symmetrize doesn't work with rigify skeletons very well. i've never used that combination so i'm not sure but if that is the case, you have discovered a pretty big downside to rigify honestly. still, i think it'd be worth it to manually line up both halfs for how easy to use and powerful the control rig that it generates is

i'm not sure what the issue is but usually when things dont work, it shows an error at the bottom of the screen telling you where it went wrong.

if your character model has seperate arms I'm assuming it'll likely be too different from a normal human-like character to use this rig so you'd have to make your own custom setup rig.

very good point to keep in mind and easy to forget!! (I'll admit it happens to me more than i'd like to admit , being in edit mode instead of object mode XD)

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I can't say i've ever run into that issue, i can use box select on multiple bones and they'll all move/ rotate. although selecting multiple things could result is slightly weird behavior sometimes with the pivot point. in the dropdowns at the top Middle of the screen you have one that is to do with the transform pivot. It could have something to do with that being set to a strange option that's causing issues. Aside from that I'm not sure