Comments on: Rigging Easy-to-animate Fingers

By: Roxie Marten

Roxie Marten — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 06:55:46 +0000

One dumb question.
I make the knuckle in the third layer and when I change the bone to the knuckle shape.
It comes out laying on it’s side no matter which way the original is orientated.

By: Bill Shepherd

Bill Shepherd — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:02:20 +0000

This tutorial is awesome! I never knew how to add custom bone shapes and it has made things SO easier for me!

By: rakine

rakine — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:27:46 +0000

Can someone please help me! I dont know what happened, but im on the part with the bones, and everything is like, locked on the axis. So when i go to tilt it down, it just follows the axis and grows.

By: Jennifer Bogartz

Jennifer Bogartz — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 23:05:45 +0000

Excellent tutorial, thanks! I’ve been intimidated by the texture paint feature but after going through this tutorial I feel much more confident about using it!

By: Markus Schueler

Markus Schueler — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:00:31 +0000

One Question: At 18:25 you say that you hit coma on the keyboard to rotate the bones around their individual centers – this doesnt work for me, also when pressing R and coma, the bones always rotate and the roll is messed up.

How are the bones rotated around their individual centers?

By: Adele Michaels

Adele Michaels — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:44:37 +0000

oh, never mind, I realized,I had to do the rotation and stuff to the bone meshes in EDIT mode. Whoops, Silly me

By: Adele Michaels

Adele Michaels — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:01:49 +0000

Question! I followed your direcdtions to the letter 5 times but when I get to the custom shape in Blender 2.61 I get my knuckle control at the orginal orentation, before flipping and it refuses to sacale with me. What am I doing wrong?

By: Ronald Tarrant

Ronald Tarrant — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:33:34 +0000

I love the simplicity of this; thanks for bringing it into the English-speaking world.

One question (and a bit of preamble):

I’m creating a set of cartoonish characters and, rather than doing individual arms/hands for each, I just copied and pasted one arm for all (with appropriate resizing and X-axis flipping).

So, can I rig/weight-paint just the one arm and then somehow append/link/whatever to all the characters?

I realize this may be covered somewhere on the site, but I’m willing to bet I wouldn’t recognize it for what it is.

-Ron T.

By: Jonah

Jonah — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:13:19 +0000

hey this is great but how do i add this to the rest of my armature

By: Joey Baltrusch

Joey Baltrusch — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:53:41 +0000

Nice redo, Jonathan, and a great explaination of how to set this up. And I see that there is a footrig in the comments, I’ll check that one out. Once I’ve played with those, hopefully I can extend that through the CG Cookie series on the site to the rest of the body.

Thanks again, just what I was looking for!