What you'll learn

• Bone hierarchies and IK/FK chains
• Auto-rig vs hand-rigged trade-offs
• Weight painting that doesn't break
• Rigging hands and faces
• Validating a rig before animating
• Optimizing bone counts for games

Requirements

• •Completed Intro to 3D or equivalent.
• •Comfortable thinking about parent/child transforms.

About this course

Build a skeleton that actually deforms cleanly when posed. This course breaks the topic down into 10 digestible lessons — about 12 minutes each. Every lesson has a hands-on exercise and a short quiz so the ideas actually stick. By the end you'll have practiced everything in Animatrix itself, not just watched it happen.