WEBVTT 00:00.390 --> 00:05.820 In this lesson, we're going to learn how to start to rig bones, this character that we modeled in 00:05.820 --> 00:09.630 the first part, we tested in the second and now his third, we're going to rig them. 00:09.960 --> 00:12.120 So we've seen the quick rig tool. 00:12.270 --> 00:16.200 But I just quickly want to discuss also creating things from scratch. 00:16.500 --> 00:17.670 So we go over to the rigging tab. 00:17.670 --> 00:19.170 We can see we have all these different buttons. 00:19.170 --> 00:24.890 And if we go to the same rigging tab up here, these are kind of correlate to these buttons down here. 00:24.900 --> 00:28.440 So we go to skeleton, you can see create joints has the same icon as that. 00:28.440 --> 00:31.350 Insert joints actually isn't even included over here. 00:31.740 --> 00:37.320 But yeah, this Eick one over here is this crate I can handle. 00:37.590 --> 00:41.880 So there's a lot of the same tools in the shelf that there are and the menu. 00:42.150 --> 00:44.420 So you just kind of pick whichever one you want to use. 00:44.670 --> 00:49.020 I typically like to use the menu because I can actually read what they are and don't have to guess at 00:49.020 --> 00:56.010 what each one of these icons are or way to hover over them and see what the tool tips are so we can 00:56.010 --> 00:57.450 pretty quickly create joints. 00:57.450 --> 00:59.880 And you typically want to do that in orthographic view. 00:59.880 --> 01:02.520 And that means front, right side or top. 01:02.520 --> 01:07.140 So we can hold down, spacebar, click in the middle here and we get to the front view and then we just 01:07.140 --> 01:09.060 start, for example, drawing the spine joints. 01:09.330 --> 01:17.220 I could click here and if I click here without holding down shift, it might not be straight vertical. 01:17.220 --> 01:23.460 So we can hold down shift to isolate where we're drawing the spine joints. 01:23.700 --> 01:27.000 And you can quickly see we you know, we can't see that one behind it. 01:27.000 --> 01:31.860 So there's actually a nice kind of tool here that is X-ray joints. 01:32.130 --> 01:34.740 So we can see through the model to where the joints are. 01:35.040 --> 01:38.610 So I can keep shift clicking and create a bunch of joints. 01:38.610 --> 01:39.810 When I hit enter, they're all done. 01:40.200 --> 01:45.780 So if we take a look at these joints, they might not be exactly where we want because we made them 01:45.780 --> 01:46.920 in orthographic view. 01:47.220 --> 01:53.340 So what I can do is go to another side view or go to a different orthographic view and I can move them 01:53.340 --> 01:54.840 based off of their parent. 01:54.840 --> 01:59.220 But then everything follows and then I can just kind of translate everything around. 01:59.850 --> 02:08.730 And if, for example, I get everything the way I want to and maybe one of these metal joints are not 02:08.730 --> 02:14.910 in the right place, instead of moving everything above it, I can hold down D, which is the pivotal 02:14.910 --> 02:17.970 where we know of and just move that single joint. 02:18.390 --> 02:23.070 So that's kind of a quick way to start creating joints and understand how to manipulate them and move 02:23.070 --> 02:23.280 them. 02:23.640 --> 02:27.630 Well, we're going to use to our advantage is the actual Queequeg tool, because it's one of the nice 02:27.630 --> 02:31.650 things it does is it also labels and names all of the joints properly. 02:31.920 --> 02:35.520 So we're going to use that just to create the skeleton and then we're going to finish out the rig on 02:35.520 --> 02:35.880 our own. 02:36.120 --> 02:37.890 So I'm going to click the quick rig tool over here. 02:37.920 --> 02:39.720 We're going to go to the step by step process. 02:40.050 --> 02:44.370 We're going to add a new character by adding plus and we're going to rename it. 02:47.280 --> 02:53.580 And then I'm going to select all the geometry and I'm going to add it, and previously we use imperfect 02:53.580 --> 02:58.710 mesh, but that's not going to work on this one because it's a mesh that has a lot of holes in it, 02:58.710 --> 03:02.540 you know, so it's going to kind of spaz out if it tries to use imperfect mesh. 03:02.970 --> 03:05.730 So the one that I've found that works with him is polygon soup. 03:06.180 --> 03:09.630 And we create it takes a minute to think and now it actually works. 03:09.960 --> 03:14.190 So experiment with different types for yourself if you're following along with a different model. 03:14.430 --> 03:18.840 But I encourage you to follow along with me so that it is consistent and your results. 03:19.140 --> 03:20.840 And if you have any questions, you can ask them. 03:21.240 --> 03:28.500 So I'm going to move the joints where I would expect them to be for the pivot's of the elbow. 03:28.770 --> 03:34.620 I'm going to mirror those changes over and we're going to need to create our own hand joints or our 03:34.620 --> 03:36.030 own finger joints later. 03:36.780 --> 03:44.880 But for now, let's just get the main joints in the right place, which is pretty easy to do with these 03:44.880 --> 03:45.780 guide controls. 03:58.720 --> 04:04.240 So now we've created the guides and we place them where we want them to be, we can hit this little 04:04.240 --> 04:08.440 drop down menu over here to create the skeleton only because, again, we're going to make our own rig 04:08.440 --> 04:09.380 from this point forward. 04:09.670 --> 04:10.930 So let's create update. 04:11.350 --> 04:14.650 And we have our joints and they're properly named. 04:14.740 --> 04:19.900 If we go into the outliner, if we go over here to the channel box, we can see Bones is the name of 04:19.900 --> 04:21.570 the character that we've already made. 04:21.790 --> 04:23.890 So it starts with that left up leg. 04:24.500 --> 04:32.760 And over here we see the joint bones, left arm, bones, right arm. 04:32.770 --> 04:38.070 So it has a nice suit as a nice naming convention to it, already built in. 04:38.380 --> 04:41.620 The one thing that might be a little distracting is how big the bones actually are. 04:41.680 --> 04:43.990 They're a little too big, like we can't see the spine that well. 04:44.290 --> 04:52.090 So let's close the Quecreek tool and let's go over to display and let's go down to animation joint size. 04:53.110 --> 04:57.550 This way we can control the joint size and Arsène and. 05:00.660 --> 05:02.340 Place it where we want it to be. 05:03.330 --> 05:08.850 So now we've created the basic rig in the next lesson, let's create the finger joints and then figure 05:08.850 --> 05:11.610 out how to mirror them over and name them appropriately. 05:11.670 --> 05:12.300 Thanks for watching.