Polyfjord | Tutorial: Making a Mechanical Walking Creature in Blender @Polyfjord | Uploaded August 2022 | Updated October 2024, 5 days ago.
Let's go through the entire process of modeling, rigging, animating and rendering a mechanical creature, in less than an hour!

Project file on Patreon: patreon.com/posts/70374076

Discord server:
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Mentioned tutorials:
15 min Character Animation - youtu.be/imbIsNAvUpM
Real Time Animation - youtu.be/eoSRMxMDYsk
Robotic Arms (Part 2) - youtu.be/5Wn7gSTay0Y?t=316
Cinematic Lighting - youtu.be/si7UAgvBd4Y

Software used:
Blender (Free and open source!) - blender.org

Assets used:
Ground texture (Creative Commons 0: Public domain) - https://i.imgur.com/soXtB7C.png

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00:00 What we'll be creating
00:34 Modeling a joint
05:59 Modeling the leg
09:04 Modeling the body
13:16 Modeling cable hooks
15:17 Making cables using curves
17:53 Assigning basic materials
19:43 Creating armature and IK rig
23:27 Attaching the leg to the rig
26:40 Tweaking the IK rig
29:35 Connecting the legs to the body
33:36 Animating the legs
37:44 Animating the body
39:47 Animating the ground
41:12 Shading and lighting setup
46:42 Making a vignette for the ground
48:00 Preview renders and post processing
50:16 Additional minor tweaks
52:35 Final result and cinematics

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