Auto-Rig Pro Tutorial: Rigging Humans

Published 2022-08-04
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In this video I'll demonstrate how to use Auto rig pro's Smart tools to rig human and humanoid characters. We'll even cover rigging a complex model and manual weight painting. This should give you all tools you need to rig any character you wish.

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0:00 Intro to the Auto-Rig Pro Course
1:10 Buy, Download, Install
3:48 Overview & Free Downloads
4:54 The Auto-rig Pro (ARP) Panel
5:51 "Smart" features
10:09 Generate and tweak Reference bones
12:10 Match to Rig (the Magic button)
12:35 Weighting/Skinning/Binding
14:02 Rigging a Complex Human
14:40 Complex Model Overview
16:25 "Smart"rigging for complex models
17:32 Facial Setup
20:46 Eye Setup
21:57 Reference Bones
24:50 Complex Weighting
28:06 Heat Maps Weighting
30:05 Voxelized Weighting (Type 1)
32:12 Voxel Heat Diffuse Skinning (addon)
33:45 Voxelized Weighting (Type 2)
34:30 Heat Maps (face only)
35:37 Remaining Problems
38:00 Fixing the Teeth & Tongue
45:24 Weighting the Eyelids (manual weight painting)
52:25 Weight painting the Eyelashes
56:05 Fixing leg weights
56:59 Conclusion

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All Comments (21)
  • @0cyrhoe
    Been playing with rigging for several years and never achieved more than "It's kind of alright, from a distance, at the right angle." Finally I've rigged a character and thought, "YES! THAT'S IT!" Thank you so much for this tutorial and for introducing me to ARP.
  • @crippsuniverse
    Also, ARP places the finger bones in the centre of the finger which results in rounded knuckles. If you want the knuckle bends to look sharp (i.e. more realistic) move the ball joint up closer to the knuckle.
  • @KindTom1
    Wow, thank you for making this tuorial series. This is probably the ONLY concise series on Auto-Rig pro. Even the creator has silent videos on their page that arent too helpful. I'm looking forward to the creatures tutorial as well. Rhank you so so much. Ive been watching all your Auto-Rig pro tutorials, they are the best. And thank you for contributing to improving the Add-on with your feature request.
  • @TranquilMarmot
    Thank you so much for this! After watching it I bought auto-rig pro and was able to set up an awesome rig in literally seconds.
  • @kyounokuma
    This is a fantastic video. I'm new to Blender, Auto-Rig Pro, and Voxel Heat Diffuse Skinning, and you answered all of my questions and more with this one video. It didn't take long for me to comprehend just how powerful Auto-Rig Pro is and the overall rigging and skinning process with these 3 tools. Thank you so much.
  • Only being able to give a single thumbs-up is a crime! I spent aboput 4 hours watching and rewatching portions of this video. It is a treasure trove of information! I'd give it 100 thumbs up if I could.
  • @crippsuniverse
    At the Smart Setup stage I've found setting finger thickness to 5 means the the control widgets are visible whereas leaving at three they are often hidden inside the hand
  • I'm disappointed for one reason, namely that I can't give 100 likes to your tutorial. I really want. Great job, great tutorial. A lot of knowledge. 100 out of 10.
  • @Pleotech
    37:35 Really good thing to know about the "preserve volume" setting - great tutorial mate.
  • @DodaGarcia
    I've had ARP for a while and kept getting frustrated when the basic options wouldn't give me the results I wanted, so this video helped me lots! The fact alone that I could have been using different types of binding for different groups of vertices blew my mind.
  • @Blendercage
    I just bought it having no understanding of rigging whatsoever. I’m gonna study this and rigify in hopes to actually learn something. Thank you for these videos.
  • I discovered Auto rig pro for the first time on this channel. I am yet to buy the add on but maybe future episodes of this course will finally convince me. I like what I am seeing so far!! thanks!!
  • The best product introduction, cover not only product's info but how to resolve the potential circumstances!
  • Thank a lot mate, i was using ARP for the past 2 years without really knowing what i was doing but now you made it clear.
  • WHEN IT CIMES TO RIGGING IN BLENDER YOU ARE JUST THE BEST
  • @Fettman89
    The voxel heat skinning though an extra 30 dollars proved to be worth it, before I had weird skewing of my clothes, but using that everything looks just as it should.
  • @Furry_Cultist
    Where is the another video? That's what you promised. I'm dying of expectation. No more patience. Excellent category
  • @Anarchronic
    I believe the mysterious side lines are where the jowls are (for the inflate/hollow action, like when blowing a horn or trumpet)
  • @hotsauce7124
    Paint Weights question: At Time index 46:53 I turn on mirror symmetry on the X. 1. The weight normalization seems to re-assign weights across the X axis. For example, when I paint out weights around the left eye, new weights are created on the right side. 2. Another question of weight normalization, is there a way to lock the weights that I want to keep? For example, after painting the weights around the eye, I go to the eyebrows. I start painting the weights on the eye brows, and the weights around the eyes change. 3. If there is a way to lock the weights after they have been painted, it might help speed up the weight painting. 4. Thank you for making this tutorial.
  • This is amazing. I just got auto rig pro and I know Im going to keep coming back to this video. Really helpful.