The Art of Effective Rigging 2
The most extensive rigging course in Blender ever released.

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AOER² is the most extensive Blender rigging course released to date. It will take you from the very fundamentals of rigging in Blender to high-end, advanced level character rigging from scratch.
Course requirements
This course is for perfect beginners to more advanced riggers. You don’t need to know how to rig in Blender but you do need some experience with the software to be comfortable with its UI, base tools and navigation.

What’s included in the course
More than 235 videos
Over 33 hours of lessons and exercises.
Full PDF documentation including lesson highlights, keyboard shortcut and rig hierarchy.
One Blender file per lesson.
High quality characters optimized to run on any PC.
Lessons for both blender 3.6x LTS and Blender 4.x
More lessons and updates coming.
No paid addon needed.

Course teaser
Made with the character rigs created in the course.

Course content

Rigging fundamentals
What is rigging and what is it made for.

Parenting and basic constraints.
Bones manipulation & Vertex groups.
Using and managing an armature.
Naming conventions.

Simple object rigging
Create a Bouncing ball rig.

Squash and stretch mechanism.
Add a Spinning mechanism.
Create controller’s custom shapes.

Robot Rigging
Create a little spider robot that can fold into a sphere.

Combine different mechanism.
Create inverse Kinematics legs and arms.
“Look at” function for the head orientation.
Introduction to scripting and custom Rig UI.
First character rig
Create your first biped character rig.

Inverse and forward kinematics switch.
Simple spine rig.
Skinning and weights painting basics.
Full IK leg rig with foot roll.
Full custom Rig UI using scripting templates
IK/FK snapping tools.

Advanced character rig
Create an advanced biped character

Advanced spine rig.
Pistons and secondary armor rig.
Skinning and weights painting techniques.
Full IK/FK switchable arms and legs.

Rifle Rig
Rifle Rig including shader drivers.
Chamber, magazine, muzzle, scope…

IK & FK
Full custom rig UI and custom properties.
Full IK/FK switchable arms and legs.

Secoundary rig
Automated neck piston rig, shoulder pads and torso plates.
Switchable parents and reversible dependencies.
High End character rig
Full facial rig
Advanced cloth rig
Advanced skinning techniques
BBones
Deformation helper bones