CG Cookie Character Rigging Mastery

Demystify character rigging

Follow CG Cookie Head Animation Instructor, Wayne Dixon, through this bundle of 3 foundational courses on character rigging and get all of the tools and understanding necessary to build rigs for your very own characters. With these courses, you can finally understand all those challenging and nuanced concepts needed to create rigs that move characters the way you want and are easy to animate.

The journey starts with RIG, your playbook for rigging characters in Blender. Through the four chapters in this course, you discover the why and the how behind some of the most common setups necessary for a biped character. By the end of it, you'll have your own biped character rig!

Then you can move on to SHAPE, where you understand how to add Blender's shape keys to your rigging toolbox. Wayne walks you through the process of creating purposeful shapekeys, the pros and cons of using them, and how to connect them to your rig controls. You even get some advanced tips on corrective shape keys and taking advantage of sub-shapes.

And finally the bundle wraps up with EYES, the course that's entirely about, well... rigging eyes. If the eyes are the windows to a character's soul, then a great eye rig is essential for ensuring those windows are clear, expressive, and moving with intention. You'll discover how to set up eye rigs for characters of all styles, from realistic to fully stylized. You'll even build a 2D Grease Pencil eye rig.

Each course is meticulously put together and includes example files, reference documents, and the care and attention that only someone like Wayne can provide.

Get this bundle and take your next steps toward character rigging mastery!