How To Make 2D Character Rigs in Blender

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In this video I showcase some of the 2D rigs I have created as well as give you step by step instructions on how you can create you own.
2:46 Skip to beginning of tutorial 2:46

DISCLAIMER: I am aware that these are not the best methods for rigging a model. These are the methods I used in 3 recent cartoons (unpublished), and I will be changing methods in the future to use only bones as controls instead of empties as I have now learnt that this is a better method. I will redo these tutorials in the future to show the new method. For now you may at least learn a thing or two about what blender is capable of.

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Chapters:
0:00 Showcasing my rigs
2:54 beginning of tutorial, creating a new 2D file
5:32 Separating Body Parts
6:40 Creating the Armature and Bones
6:56 Head IK : simple inverse kinematics
13:33 Creating the Arm Bones
13:56 Using a Lattice to bend a Grease Pencil object
18:22 Working in 2D/3D space, correcting Z levels
18:59 Correcting the Lattice BSpline to Catmul Clark interpolation
19:26 adding IK poles for the arm
20:25 connecting the Hand
22:36 Mirroring the arm
25:25 Rigging the Legs
28:50 Correcting weird results of the Copy Rotation modifier
31:02 Mirroring the Leg
33:03 Rigging the Torso
35:00 Final Words

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