Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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*Full Playlist*
Find all currently released chapters of the course in the official Playlist:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdcL5aF8ZcJsSWrFwmLsQvCIKisuyyMnU

Welcome to the *"Rigging isn't Scary" Course - Level 3*.
This is free blender rigging tutorial.
In this video we'll learn new rigging techniques aimed at mechanical and hard-surface mechanisms.

0:00 Future Chapters
1:08 Mechanical Arm Check
4:53 Weights Clean-up
7:04 Mechanical Elbow Automation
13:36 When to Automate?
14:19 Automation Challenge
14:57 Driver Solution
16:34 Driver Graph Curve
18:26 Copy Rotation Solution
19:34 Transformation Constraint Solution
22:03 Action Constraint Theory
23:335 Slotted Actions 101
28:37 Arm Mechanism using Action Constraint
29:22 Creating the Bones
34:22 Bone Weights
35:57 Control Bone
36:57 Constraint Animation
40:07 Constraint Setup
41:20 Custom Shape
42:05 Limit Transforms
43:54 Collections
45:01 Fist Action Constraint

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