Tutorial: Making an Animated Robot in Blender @Polyfjord
Tutorial: Making an Animated Robot in Blender  @Polyfjord
Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Let's create a light bulb robot from start to finish using only free assets! We'll use kitbashing to add mechanical parts to an existing armature, and then use a free addon to batch parent all the parts with one click.

New Patreon Tier:
patreon.com/polyfjord

The Mechanical Creature Kit:
blendermarket.com/products/mechanical-creature-kit

Light Bulb model on Poly Haven:
polyhaven.com/a/lightbulb_01

Blender Addon - Parent to Nearest Bone by g3ntile:
github.com/g3ntile/parentToNearestBone

Rokoko Motion Library:
rokoko.com

Software used:
blender.org

My second channel: @Polyfjord2

Chapters:
00:00 What we'll be creating
00:19 Importing motion capture
01:36 Importing the Mechanical Creature Kit
02:56 Kitbashing the legs
04:20 Kitbashing and modeling the arms
06:03 Adding core body parts
10:32 Adding the head
11:17 Kitbashing screws
12:17 Mirroring and final modeling tweaks
12:59 Batch parenting parts to armature
14:51 Attaching the torso using constraints
16:15 Material setup
17:53 Final result
18:09 Extended version + new Patreon Tier
18:43 Thanks for watching!

#motioncapture #b3d #robot

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