Tutorial: Making an Animated Robot in Blender

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Published 2023-02-10
Let's create a light bulb robot from start to finish using only free assets! We'll use kitbashing to add mechanical parts to an existing armature, and then use a free addon to batch parent all the parts with one click.

New Patreon Tier:
www.patreon.com/polyfjord

The Mechanical Creature Kit:
www.blendermarket.com/products/mechanical-creature…

Light Bulb model on Poly Haven:
polyhaven.com/a/lightbulb_01

Blender Addon - Parent to Nearest Bone by g3ntile:
github.com/g3ntile/parentToNearestBone

Rokoko Motion Library:
www.rokoko.com/

Software used:
www.blender.org/

My second channel: ‪@Polyfjord2‬

Chapters:
00:00 What we'll be creating
00:19 Importing motion capture
01:36 Importing the Mechanical Creature Kit
02:56 Kitbashing the legs
04:20 Kitbashing and modeling the arms
06:03 Adding core body parts
10:32 Adding the head
11:17 Kitbashing screws
12:17 Mirroring and final modeling tweaks
12:59 Batch parenting parts to armature
14:51 Attaching the torso using constraints
16:15 Material setup
17:53 Final result
18:09 Extended version + new Patreon Tier
18:43 Thanks for watching!

#motioncapture #b3d #robot

All Comments (21)
  • @sobreaver
    Great tutorial, great resources ! And great parenting addon dev, it's a subtle but good one ;)
  • Thanks to your tutorial, I got to know something new for me, "rokoko", "parentNearestBone", especially "select pattern", which seem to speed up work process. And, Your final rendered animation is always fantastic!
  • I’m not even a 3D animator or modeler and I watch these videos to be inspired 😂 It’s just such an amazing process 🤩
  • @lao-ce8982
    You are an absolute gem! Thank you for your hard work, free tutorials and assets!
  • @Mix3Design
    Always the best animation creatures tutourials ❤️❤️❤️
  • Very lovely tutorial I'm gonna use this in my new project
  • @SILVERFANG77
    IDK why but the final result and all that dancing made me smile wide😁and That final outro was so amazing and very creative 🔥
  • @1havokk
    This robot looks like he would win every dancing competition
  • Another cracking video. I feel that i'm not going to be satisfied until we get Asbjørn in a mocap suit dancing :face-green-smiling:
  • Your videos are one of the best sources of learning blender on youtube but they are entertaining as well. I love each and every part of your videos
  • @ChinyONE
    so well done, like everything. The video, the tutorial parts, the way of explaining rigging. Just beautiful, thy sir
  • @philip6320
    Thank you for all the amazing tutorials👏
  • Awesome tutorial!!! All your content is top quality and easy to follow. Thank you for sharing.