does anyone know what is going on? whenever i try to pose my character's arm by using the upper arm ik bone, my mesh stretches all over the place. i put auto ik stretch to zero but im not sure what else to try. I've included a photo

I am trying to give my frame  a color like you do (11.23sec) but all I get is a standard Line....

Any advice or idea what that could be? 

Thank you very much

Martin

I have an armature which is linked as a library override into multiple animation .blend files. I need to rename this armature but when I do, all the animation .blend files break. How can I rename the armature without ruining the library override in the animation .blends?

spikeyxxx Could you please explain why we need a second "Mapping Node" in order to stretch the "Volumetric Cloud" along "Local Y"?  Aren't  the scaling operations along the three axes independant from each other?

Have uploaded a YouTube video to the Gallery. Although the video plays correctly the image shown on the Gallery is that of the CGCookie logo in black and white and not a frame from the video. What am i doing wrong.

Hi CGCookie Crew!

My name is Dominque and I've been using Blender for about 7 years. I have a pretty advanced question about  rigging. It's not so much a problem with Blender as it's really more of a question involving a feature mainly coming from Maya. I know Kent used to work Maya a while back, but if anyone is familiar with the software, please lend a hand if you can. I usually would post something like this on BlenderArtists, but really I need a one on one talk with someone who really knows how to work around Blender's rigging system.

I'm trying to rig a cartoon characters face in a certain way, but I don't know if Blender is capable of doing it. It does involve shape keys and Maya's Blendshapes. It's kind of hard to explain in text as what I'm trying to do was featured in a Maya advanced facial rigging course. I would share the videos explaining what happened but I bought the course and don't want to redistribute the content on accident. I couldn't find an answer to this online, but I did find a post here explaining, more or less, the core issue for what I'm trying to do. https://devtalk.blender.org/t/live-update-of-source-mesh-while-modifying-connected-shape-keys/12229

I know I had to read that post a few times to understand what he was saying. Sadly no one answered, but like I said earlier, I need someone who can possibly come up with a workaround. Or at least a method that would yield similar results. It would probably be easier if I could explain it in person or in a discord call, otherwise I would be here all night typing out two hours worth of video footage from that course.

Thanks to all!! Seriously!