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3D Character Rigging in Blender

You're reading from 3D Character Rigging in Blender Bring your characters to life through rigging and make them animation-ready

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803238807

Length 164 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Blender

Concepts

Animation

Author (1):

Jaime Kelly

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: An Introduction

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Rigs and Terminologies FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Starting with Bones

4. Part 2: Rigging

5. Chapter 3: Using Weighting Tools to Give Life to a Mesh

6. Chapter 4: Beginning the Rigging Process

7. Chapter 5: Getting Started with Weight Painting

8. Part 3: Advanced Techniques

9. Chapter 6: Using IK and Rig Controls

10. Chapter 7: Getting Started with Shape Keys

11. Chapter 8: Beyond the Basics

12. Index

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Getting Started with Shape Keys

In this chapter, we will cover shape keys, going from a basic introduction to getting hands-on with making and modifying our own shape keys. After covering shape keys, we will discover how bone drivers can be used to automate the input for these shape keys, activating them based on bone movement.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Introducing shape keys
Making a shape key
Editing a shape key
Using drivers
Mirroring shape keys

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to add, remove, and modify shape keys to fix poor deformations and will know how to make shape keys an automatic part of a rig.

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Authors (1)

Jaime Kelly

Jaime Kelly

Jaime Kelly is a freelance artist with over five years of experience with works in animation, rigging, and 3D design. He has worked within all manners of industries, including product promotion materials, animated media such as animated breakdowns of systems in training material, and, of course, 3D rigging for pre-rendered and real-time media.

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