Introducción

Rigging is a general term used for adding controls to objects, typically for the purpose of animation.

Rigging often involves using one or more of the following features:

Armatures

This allows mesh objects to have flexible joints and is often used for skeletal animation.

Constraints

To control the kinds of motions that make sense and add functionality to the rig.

Object Modifiers

Mesh deformation can be quite involved, there are multiple modifiers that help control this.

Shape Keys

To support different target shapes (such as facial expressions) to be controlled.

Drivers

So your rig can control many different values at once, as well as making some properties automatically update based on changes elsewhere.

Rigging can be as advanced as your project requires, rigs are effectively defining own user interface for the animator to use, without having to be concerned the underlying mechanisms.

Examples

• An armature is often used with a modifier to deform a mesh for character animation.
• A camera rig can be used instead of animating the camera object directly to simulate real-world camera rigs (with a boom arm, mounted on a rotating pedestal for example, effects such as camera jitter can be added too).

Ver también

El contenido de este capítulo es simplemente una referencia a cómo el aparejo es hecho en Blender. Deberia ser emparejado con recursos adicionales como el excelente (y gratis!) introducción a la los conceptos fundamentales de carácter rigging, Humane Rigging Por Nathan Vegdahl.