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Beginner

How to Rig a Character in Blender 2.5

A short tutorial walking you through the basics of rigging a character in Blender 2.5. Includes weight painting and skinning.

Introduction to Animation in Blender 2.5

This tutorial gives an overview of the animation tools used in the new Blender 2.5. It includes comparisons from 2.49, and goes through new features.

Creating a bouncy ball rig

Learn how to create a basic rig to control the squash and stretch of a sphere as it’s bouncing, and also demonstrate a bounce cycle.

Intermediate

How to setup an IK Spline

How to model and rigg a piece of rope in Blender 2.50, using a Spline IK.


Create a Ragdoll Simulation

Discover how to create a ragdoll simulation using the bullet game engine built into Blender.


Working with Shapekey Drivers

In this Blender 2.5 video tutorial we will be going over creating shape keys, and then talk on how to apply drivers to the shapekeys so that the armature can control the them.

Rigging an eye for Dilation

How to use driven shape-keys to dilate the pupil of an eye. The tutorial also demonstrates how to use custom bone shapes and limiting the transformation of a bone via constraints.

Advanced

Rigging Mechanical Pistons

This tutorials shows how to rig a mechanical piston for automatic deformation and easy animating.