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• Scott Martin

  about 2 months ago

  Loving this add-on, in minutes and you can get quite the lovely setup. Really dig the generate rig which then seems to do some magic for auto weighted skinning. Used to use the built in Rigify, but this has become my go to tool and can't wait to try out other characters just to make sure it wasn't a fluke on my initial testing.

  Easily recommended.

• hkYY CY L

  about 2 months ago

  Love it, great plugins 👍🏻😍
  The best part about it is that it is really easy, it turn one of the most trouble and time consuming task into just minutes of work and the outcome is very good.
  The create new limbs function it provided for creating skeleton also make the process to create unique skeleton structure much easier.

• Jose Larpe

  about 2 months ago

  WOW
  This has been the best addon I have used. I'm a newbie, it took me 3 weeks to put a skeleton on a character. But this addon created a better and functional one in less than 5 minutes. 5 stars and more, if you are a newbie like me this is the best!

• Joel Walden

  3 months ago

  This is an incredible tool for rigging quickly and without pain, delay, hassle, etc. It removes the motivation killers like lengthy agonizing weight painting (so far it's worked very well 🤞) or a clumsy dense interface that makes your eyeballs go numb. This thing got my little unrigged character model rigged and even running, walking, and dancing around in minutes of installing it. I never touched the addon in my life and my little dude was animation ready -- actually moving around -- in just a few minutes.

  You have no idea how much that helps the artist's brain to just see your own character rigged and moving around immediately like that. It really helps with quick iteration on a character model, texture, and overall design. Great feature to include.

  Doing all the work yourself as a generalist 3D artist just gets exhausting man. Sometimes you just need your tools to do the heavy lifting for you in a fun design and clean professional interface. The developer of this addon seems to truly understand that. Holy freaking criminy. To the developer of Puppet Studio -- thank you for making your tool so easy to use. Please make more tools like this.

  Okay -- specifics:
  The process of placing the locators for the rig joints is very easy and intuitive, as well as very forgiving if you make a mistake. There is a silhouette cutout image that follows along with the joint placement controls. These look like the shape of a leg or foot, head or neck. They adjust and change shape as you move and place the rig joint locators onto your character meshes. These cues tell you what you're looking at in a very intuitive, very human-friendly way. It's just really intuitive and creative.

  The rig it generated was precisely what I needed, the custom bone shapes and bone colors were just -- PERFECT. I immediately know what every control is for just looking at the rig. The UI for turning parts of the rig on and off is clear and easy to understand.

  The addon can generate a new walk, run, idle, and dance animations procedurally based on the limb setup you created. You have a few parameters to vary the look of the animation. In minutes/seconds you can get your character up and moving so you can test your weights, tweak and fix things, and iterate on a design. The animations generated are actually really quite good and way faster than doing it from scratch. At the very least the procedurally generated animations are an excellent starting point that one could then refine further if one wanted.

  Puppet Studio makes really great, useful rigs without being overwhelming. I've seen other auto-rigging addons with an interface SO complex and jammed up with indistinguishable buttons and panels that they're exhausting to even look at. Complexity is great but when no thought goes into the visual design of a complex tool -- it quickly creates a lot of mental friction that works against creativity.

  Puppet Studio's interface, in my opinion, seems to have been designed to be clear and easy to understand, easy to locate the features you need to work with your rig. It looks like actual humans made it for actual human artists to use. It has already become one of my top favorite addons I've ever bought on Superhive. (and I have bought LOADS of stuff here)

  Finally, I'm glad to have a tool like this because my kid is interested in getting into digital animation and games. He's smart but he's autistic -- he gets overwhelmed by the complexity of Blender. I am going to have him use this addon because it is that approachable and easy to understand without being too lightweight.

  Now I'm gonna go out to my nearest highway wearing a homemade cheerleader uniform with "Puppet Studio" written on the shirt in magic marker -- and some pom-poms -- and spread the word to people driving by about how great this addon is.

  Not really, because I'm a dude. But I want to, and that's what's important.

• Alena

  4 months ago

  I really like this plugin! It is very beginner-friendly, has great UI, and a helpful startup guide. I like that it has game-engine compatibility and works well upon import. You can easy add on extra limbs and go back to edit bone placement easily even after weight painting. I also appreciate that it comes with a few preset animations to put onto your character. Not only do they serve as a nice base for animators, but help you target any rig or weight paint issues quicker. I'm hoping eventually there will be GLTF export options, but this is great for Beta! The author of the plugin is also very helpful and listens whenever feedback is provided. Thank you for creating this plugin!

• hoonser

  4 months ago

  Holy hell it's good. Models that were giving me issues with voxel heat diffusion skin weighting just work with Puppet studio's skin weighting. Bones are super easy to setup for rigging. Just brilliant across the board. I'm looking forward to seeing how this goes because currently this is the best rigging tool I've used for Blender.

• ken takahashi

  5 months ago

  Hello. I've finally found a rigging tool that even a beginner can use.

  Thank you so much.

  It's even surpassed that famous add-on on this site!

  I'm deeply grateful.

• haymish

  5 months ago

  Puppet Studio is awesome. It makes character animation feel much easier and faster, especially for game-dev workflows. The tools are clean, useful, and save a lot of time compared to doing everything manually. Highly recommend it if you want a smoother animation pipeline.

• Jiovanie Velazquez

  6 months ago

  Right off the bat, I am giving this 5 stars! I rigged a character in less than 3 minutes, with PERFECT weighting and deformations, on a character than usually has to be tweaked a lot after using other auto-riggers (wearing a space suit with a thick bulky collar coming up around the neck area).

  The set up controls are NICE, and easy to use!... I just can't gush enough about this tool. I usually avoid animating anything but a basic idle for my characters but this is getting me finally diving into real animation after 30 years of aversion to the craft due to complexities... They really simplified the process here without sacrificing control or quality.

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