Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Hi,
We will continue with our guide rig. In previous part we set up All guide bones, including hair, clothing and accessary. In this we will add extra bones layer and prepare a custom UI for our rig.

I'm sharing this rigging workflow from my character creation course, where we will learn to rig a character rigging using Rigify.

But why rigify?
It is blender's default addon ( need to enable from preferences ). It comes with advance rig system such as switchable IK/FK, stretchable arms/legs and so on, which would have take so much time to create manually. We can also make a custom rig with extra features like hair, clothing, accessories with proper RIG UI, and we gonna covered all that in this series. As mentioned, it is a full series on character rigging so there will be a lot of parts with well structured videos and each parts will covered specific topic,

So we will go step by step process:

1. Setting up, Rigify's base bone structure ✅
2. Adding extra bones for hair, clothing and accessories ✅
3. Adding extra bones to new bone layers and creating custom rig UI ▶️
4. Generating rig, assigning color sets to new controllers
5. Assigning extra controllers to custom UI
6. Fixing newly generated rig.
7. Weight painting the base ( include timelapse )
8. Transfer weight from base to other mesh to speed up the process


This is just a one chapter from my course, If you wish to learn full character creation, it will be available soon.

NOTE: I'm not a professional rigger nor I'm saying this is the correct way to rig a character. This is just a way i do which works for me. If you really wish to learn rigging, there are some course, specific for the rigging which guide through basic to advance level rigging.

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