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Learn About Rigging Character:

Doing rigging there is two type, one is skeletal rigging, skeletal rigging already bones arranged in the shape of human character, just need to place on the human body and has to start physique on the ski, this is one method and another one is working with IK rigging, this is skeletal joints exist in hierarchy. In this method you have to start to draw bones from parent bone to all your child bones with the shape of human character, this is something difficult to compare first method, because here not only drawing bone on the human body after has to link every child bones to the parent bones and after for controlling all bones on the joint place need IK or FK rigging to handle and move forward, backward and for rotating the parts.

Placing the Skeletal on the Character Body:

This is first method what do we have discussed before in above paragraph. Perhaps placement of skeleton is easiest way and this rigging process also takes very less time to compare with IK rigging. Here just you have to make sure wherever joints is there should be placed bipe skeleton, like a way for most of the parts has to be done.

What is FK Rigging:

Suppose if the character joint does need movement then probably used FK rigging and given joint only affect parts of the skeleton that follow joint hierarchy as below:

For example shoulder is the changes position of the elbow, wrist and hand. When using FK the artist commonly need to set position and rotation of each joints independently, so animator works for require achieved pose to get through the joints hierarchy deliberately:

root → spine → shoulder → elbow → etc.

Working with IK Rigging:

There are 4 types of IK solvers

HI Solver
HD Solver
IK limp
Spline IK Sover

HI Solver: This is used for bone chains to use for four or more. These bones fix according to the distance between the root bone and the parent bone. It is mostly used for limbs.

HD Solvers: This is used for robotic hands and machinery. This is casually used now a day’s well.

IK Limp: This is used for three bone chain in IK. It is fix bones according the distance between the root bone and parent bone. It is primarily used for limbs.

SplineIK Solvers: In this IK solver which adapts a bone chain according to a spine. It’s primary used for capes, tails, hooks, chains etc.