CGDive Courses

Auto-Rig Pro - T-Rex Rigging - Blender Tutorial

Learn to rig a T-Rex in Blender using Auto-Rig Pro. This tutorial covers model setup, hand and face rigging, weight painting, and advanced techniques for creating a fully animated dinosaur character.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Auto-Rig Pro - Custom Rigs From Scratch

Learn to create custom rigs from scratch using Auto-Rig Pro's "Empty" rig feature. Master bone manipulation, limb addition, and rig definition for versatile character setups like humanoids and spiders.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Procedural Crowds Addon for Blender - Review-Tutorial

Explore Blender's Procedural Crowds addon for efficient crowd generation. Learn installation, quickstart guide, custom character preparation, and integration techniques for realistic crowd simulations.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Blender Pose Library Tutorial

Learn to create, save, and reuse rig poses in Blender's Pose Library. Master techniques for hand poses, facial expressions, and custom poses to enhance your 3D character animations.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Auto-Rig Pro Rig Library - New Rigs

Explore 24 new rigs in Auto-Rig Pro's library, featuring installation guides, block meshes, optional animations, and a kangaroo rigging demo with locomotion tweaking.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Bone Heat Weighting Failed - Automatic Weights Doesn't Work in Blender

Learn techniques to resolve Blender's "Bone Heat Weighting failed" error when binding complex meshes to armatures. Explore solutions like merging vertices, scaling, splitting parts, and using specialized addons for successful automatic weighting.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Auto-Rig Pro- Wing Rig Tutorial - Blender

Learn to rig and animate complex bird wings in Blender using Auto-Rig Pro. Master feather setup, wing folding, and advanced constraint techniques for realistic avian animations.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Blender Asset Browser - All You Need to Know and Then Some

Comprehensive guide to Blender's Asset Browser, covering setup, asset types, thumbnails, rigging, materials, and advanced features for efficient 3D workflow management.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Human Generator Addon Review - Blender

Comprehensive review of Human Generator addon for Blender, covering installation, features, customization options, and performance. Explores character creation tools for diverse and realistic human models.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

FaceIt Tutorial - Body Rigs + FaceIt Mocap - Blender

Comprehensive tutorial on integrating FaceIt with body rigs in Blender, covering setup, expressions, mocap, and compatibility with various character creation tools. Ideal for 3D animators and riggers.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Corrective Smooth Baker, Blender Addon - AKA Delta Mush

Learn to bake smooth corrective modifier effects to vertex weights in Blender, enabling export of rigged meshes with improved deformations. Explore workflows for complex rigs and efficient addon usage.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

FaceIt Tutorial - Facial Mocap & ShapeKeys Addon - Blender

Learn to create facial shape keys and apply motion capture in Blender using FaceIt addon. Covers setup, rigging, expressions, baking, shape creation, control, and mocap integration for versatile character animation.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Sketchfab Addon for Blender - Get Thousands of Free 3D Models

Learn to access and utilize thousands of free 3D models from Sketchfab in Blender, including search techniques, licensing considerations, and troubleshooting import issues.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Advanced Rigify - Custom Root and Multiple Root Controls

Learn advanced Rigify techniques for custom root controls and multiple root setups in Blender. Enhance your character rigging skills with practical solutions and time-saving scripts for complex rig structures.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Let's Rig Something Weird With Rigify - Blender Tutorial

Learn to rig unconventional characters in Blender using Rigify. Master techniques like aligning bones, copying limbs, fixing misalignments, and adding body controls for efficient and flexible character rigging.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video