Learn Your First Live2D Rig! Step By Step Tutorial

[00:00] want to learn rigging but don't know

[00:01] where to start welcome to my hopefully

[00:04] all-encompassing tutorial I purposely

[00:07] designed a pet model which I believe to

[00:09] be less intensive and beginner friendly

[00:11] to teach you you can download this model

[00:13] for free in the description and work

[00:15] alongside me step by step I recommend

[00:18] doing so as I'll be introducing live2d

[00:20] cubism to you little by little through

[00:22] this pink panda bat we'll be working in

[00:24] live 2D cubism where there is a free and

[00:27] a paid version of this program if you

[00:30] want to view all the differences between

[00:31] the two you can do so with this link

[00:33] provided in the description you can also

[00:35] activate a free 42-day trial of the paid

[00:38] version that has all the features but

[00:41] you may want to save that for when

[00:42] you're doing your main model I tried my

[00:45] best to make this model free version

[00:46] friendly but keep this in mind as we

[00:49] work feel free to pause as many times as

[00:51] you need the first thing to note when

[00:54] opening your live 2D cubism program is

[00:56] the layout in front of you yours may be

[00:59] white mine is black because I have it in

[01:02] dark mode if you prefer dark mode you

[01:04] can activate this by going into file in

[01:07] the upper left hand corner going to

[01:09] environment settings and then changing

[01:11] the color theme to dark right here hit

[01:14] okay when you're done we have to start

[01:16] by pulling up our file go to file

[01:21] open and search for your newly

[01:23] downloaded pan tutorial

[01:26] PSD live2d cubism reads PSD files if you

[01:30] ever want to rig your own model in the

[01:31] future you must not only separate your

[01:33] artwork into different layers but you

[01:35] must save it as a PSD or photoshop

[01:38] document let's get acquainted with what

[01:41] has appeared on the screen to the right

[01:43] we have our Panda to the left we have

[01:45] our art folders right here if we click

[01:48] on this little arrow we can see the

[01:51] different folders that I have separated

[01:53] them into in my art program and to the

[01:57] bottom we have them just all Loosey

[01:59] goose

[02:00] that we can use under the little

[02:02] deformer tab here you can adjust your

[02:04] windows however you like but I believe

[02:06] mine are still set to the defaults so

[02:08] your screen should look pretty similar

[02:09] to this the first thing you want to do

[02:12] or at least what I like to do is click

[02:15] on this button right here it's this

[02:17] little grid icon in the middle it just

[02:20] makes the art a little bit easier to

[02:22] see we're also going to organize our

[02:25] model this is the first step when it

[02:27] comes to getting your model ready for

[02:30] rigging hold down the left click in the

[02:33] upper left hand corner and drag it down

[02:36] to the bottom hand corner of the artwork

[02:38] you're going to see that it's selected a

[02:40] bunch of different

[02:41] things then we're going to go to this

[02:44] button up here that says create warp

[02:46] deformer go ahead and click

[02:49] that and I like to call this the entire

[02:54] model hit create next what we're going

[02:57] to do is we're going to separate the

[02:59] head and the body individually in their

[03:01] own warp

[03:03] deformers now there are two ways to do

[03:05] this you can do the same hold left click

[03:09] and drag method to try to grab as much

[03:11] as the head or you can individually

[03:14] select the art over on the left side of

[03:18] the screen under deformers I prefer to

[03:21] do it under deformers because I tend to

[03:23] make less mistakes that way so in order

[03:26] to select the art that we want to have

[03:29] hold down the control button on your

[03:31] keyboard and just left click every mesh

[03:34] that the head has so this is going to be

[03:37] all of the eye layers all of the mouth

[03:41] layers The Head and the

[03:44] ear to check to make sure that you've

[03:47] grabbed every single layer you're

[03:49] supposed to you can move the head and if

[03:54] you've grabbed everything you needed to

[03:56] only the head should be moving to put

[03:59] the head back back where you want it to

[04:01] hold control and then hit

[04:03] C now once you have the head create

[04:07] another warp deformer and label it head

[04:10] to finish the rest of the organization

[04:12] for the body all you have to do is the

[04:15] exact same procedure except you're just

[04:18] going to do the body parts so I'm

[04:20] holding down control and left clicking

[04:22] the rest of the

[04:24] body to double check to make sure I have

[04:27] everything from the body I just move it

[04:29] to the left and the right to make sure I

[04:31] didn't accidentally grab any head layers

[04:33] which it doesn't look like I did hit

[04:36] contrl Z to put the head sorry the body

[04:39] back into place go back to this create

[04:42] warp deformer

[04:43] button and we'll label this the body

[04:47] this organizational method is going to

[04:50] make things so much easier for us when

[04:52] we really get into the nitty-gritty of

[04:54] rigging now that you have organized the

[04:57] head different from the body we're going

[04:59] to go up to file and we're going to hit

[05:02] save you're going to want to get into

[05:05] this habit of saving your model you do

[05:07] not have to name it anything fancy if

[05:09] you want to you can but you're going to

[05:12] want to save your model as much as

[05:15] possible just in case if your program

[05:17] crashes in the art meshes I used a

[05:20] technique called add glow this makes it

[05:23] so that the eye shines a bit but once

[05:25] you export a art piece into live 2D in

[05:30] any multiply or add glow layers will

[05:32] need to be told that they are actually a

[05:34] multiply layer or an add glow layer it's

[05:37] basically a shading effect we need to

[05:40] tell that this eye glow on both the left

[05:43] and the right eye are actually a glowing

[05:45] layer to do this we click on L glow for

[05:49] example go to

[05:52] inspector and then you can come down to

[05:54] the blend mode option right here right

[05:57] now it's listed as normal

[06:00] to change it back to how it was in the

[06:01] art we just select it to additive we'll

[06:05] do the same thing to the r i

[06:08] glow we just click on it change the

[06:10] blood mode to additive your artist

[06:13] should tell you in the layer itself

[06:16] whether a piece of art is a glow layer

[06:20] or an additive layer or a multiply layer

[06:23] so you know what you need to change with

[06:25] the artwork now we're not done with

[06:27] organization just yet now if you're on

[06:30] the free version you might be limited on

[06:32] the amount of warp deformers that you

[06:34] have access to but let's try to do as

[06:37] much as we can so we definitely want to

[06:40] separate the mouth into its own warp

[06:43] deformer so for the mouth layers we need

[06:45] to grab the upper lip lower lip upper

[06:48] skin lower skin upper teeth lower teeth

[06:51] and oral once you have all of these

[06:55] different um art layers go ahead and

[07:00] make another warp deformer and label it

[07:02] the mouth we're going to do the same

[07:04] with the eyes we're going to want to put

[07:05] them in its own little uh folder as well

[07:09] so grab our ey shine R ey glow R eyeball

[07:13] L ey shine L ey glow an L eyeball once

[07:17] you have that go to the create new work

[07:20] deformer and call it eyes if you want to

[07:23] do one for the ears you can as

[07:26] well just grab both the L ear and r ear

[07:29] ear and label it ears now let's break

[07:32] down some of the body into further

[07:34] organizational parts we can grab LF foot

[07:37] and R

[07:39] foot and call that feet we can grab L

[07:42] arm and R

[07:46] arm and call that the arms and we can

[07:49] grab the r-wing and the L wi and call

[07:52] that the

[07:53] wings that is probably as much as I

[07:57] would break down the organization of

[07:59] this specific pet model now that you

[08:01] have organized your deformers we want to

[08:04] organize our parameters which is this

[08:06] little box here you're going to see a

[08:08] bunch of different stuff like angles eye

[08:11] opens brows mouth Etc we're going to

[08:15] make folder so this is just a little bit

[08:16] easier to navigate especially if this is

[08:18] your first time rigging we don't want

[08:20] you to get lost so what we're going to

[08:22] do is we're going to click on angle X

[08:24] we're going to then rightclick it and

[08:26] we're going to get this menu to create a

[08:28] folder

[08:30] all we're going to do is we're going to

[08:31] call this head

[08:33] angles and we're going to push angle X

[08:37] angle Y and angle Z so now if we click

[08:40] on this folder it will drop down now if

[08:44] you want to make this look nicer you can

[08:47] rightclick this folder again and you can

[08:49] Auto change the color to one of the

[08:51] defaults or if you like to be a little

[08:53] fancier you can go to advanced settings

[08:55] and you can manually pick whatever color

[08:58] you want on the color wheel

[08:59] we've got a pink panda so we're going to

[09:02] make it Pink we're going to make a few

[09:04] folders now ahead of time so that when

[09:06] we get into rigging we are not slowed

[09:08] down we're going to right click again

[09:10] we're going to create a folder we're

[09:11] going to call it eyes for the eye folder

[09:15] I'm going to put in I open I open we can

[09:21] put in the I and IR smile eyeball X and

[09:25] Eyeball y for now it looks like a lot

[09:29] but it won't be too crazy and again we

[09:32] can go to advanced settings and you can

[09:35] choose whatever uh color you would like

[09:39] we do not have any eyebrows for this

[09:41] model so you do not have to worry about

[09:43] that but we do have a mouth so go ahead

[09:45] and create another

[09:47] folder we'll call this one the mouth

[09:49] you'll have to scroll down a bit to find

[09:51] the mouth form and the mouth open so

[09:54] let's go ahead and drag up mouth form

[09:57] and mouth open and we can put those in

[10:00] here we're almost there we're going to

[10:03] create two new folders we're going to

[10:05] create one called body and then for the

[10:09] body we're going to grab the body X and

[10:13] body Y and then we're going to create

[10:16] another folder and we're going to call

[10:18] it

[10:21] breathing all right you're going to have

[10:24] this parameter called breath that you're

[10:26] going to want to grab for breathing and

[10:29] we'll tuck it right in there all right

[10:31] congratulations you are done with the

[10:33] organization part of your model make

[10:35] sure that you save so you don't lose

[10:37] your work which you can either do the

[10:39] shortcut contrl s or go to file and hit

[10:42] save next we are going to do your very

[10:45] first rigging movement which is actually

[10:47] a really simple one it'll be done super

[10:50] super quick so at the very beginning I

[10:52] had you select the entire model and make

[10:54] a work deformer called entire model this

[10:57] is actually going to be our very first

[11:00] movement if you are on the paid version

[11:03] or on a free trial go ahead and click on

[11:05] entire

[11:07] model select a new deformer and call it

[11:12] breathing this isn't necessary which is

[11:15] why I say if you're on the paid version

[11:17] go ahead and do this you can still do

[11:19] this method even if you just do it on

[11:22] the entire

[11:23] model click on the breathing parameter

[11:27] and go up here where it says add two key

[11:30] frames it's this one with two little

[11:31] dots right under the inspector

[11:34] Tab and then once you're here you're

[11:37] going to

[11:38] slide your little red dot all the way

[11:41] over to the right and then you're going

[11:43] to have two little boxes you're going to

[11:46] have a green box that's around the panda

[11:48] and then a red box I like to grab the

[11:50] red box which you'll know the difference

[11:53] because your mouse will look like this

[11:54] with a little four cross on the green

[11:57] box and your mouse will look just with

[12:00] like a two like a little line on the red

[12:04] box all you're going to do is you're

[12:06] going to move the panda up slightly and

[12:09] I mean very very slightly make it subtle

[12:11] when you've made that movement you can

[12:13] test it very briefly in this window by

[12:16] just moving your slider back and forth

[12:19] and you can see that the panda looks to

[12:21] be moving up and down now if you want to

[12:23] ever test what physics or movements

[12:26] you've done you go up to this menu the

[12:29] upper left that says modeling click on

[12:32] it and then go to the bottom that says

[12:33] physics

[12:34] settings now breathing is an automatic

[12:37] parameter that already moves so whatever

[12:39] we set to it is going to move already we

[12:42] don't have to do anything fancy and here

[12:44] we can see with the subtle movement that

[12:46] we've done just by dragging that red box

[12:48] up a little the panda looks like it has

[12:50] some life into it it's already moving up

[12:53] and down slightly as if it was breathing

[12:56] and just like that you've rigged your

[12:58] very first movement now it is time for

[13:01] us to tackle the head angles so for this

[13:05] we can either click right on the head

[13:08] here you can find the head in the little

[13:11] art Parts up here or you can find the

[13:14] head in the deformer tab there are

[13:16] multiple ways that we can get to the

[13:18] head so once we're on the head what

[13:20] we're going to do is we're going to go

[13:22] to the auto button up here this is

[13:23] called the automatic mesh generator

[13:26] everything that we mesh is going to help

[13:28] us move in this

[13:30] program we'll get to this menu here and

[13:33] then we'll have this preset for this

[13:36] video and to help you get used to this

[13:38] we're going to be using a

[13:41] standard preset for almost everything go

[13:45] ahead and hit standard and then hit X

[13:48] this applies the standard mesh

[13:49] automatically for us what we're going to

[13:51] do is open our head angles folder and

[13:55] we're going to create a new warp

[13:57] deformer and we're going to call this

[13:59] the actual

[14:01] head now what we're going to do is we're

[14:03] going to go to angle X and we're going

[14:05] to add three key forms for breathing we

[14:08] did two but for this we're going to do

[14:10] three that is because the Panda's going

[14:13] to be looking straight at us in the

[14:14] neutral position but then we now need to

[14:16] add it looking to the right and it

[14:19] looking to the left okay what we're

[14:21] going to do is we're going to

[14:24] grab grab our little parameter here and

[14:27] move it all the way over to the right

[14:28] this is a mistake I made a lot when I

[14:31] was first starting is I forgot to move

[14:33] my parameters when I was about to do a

[14:35] rigging motion so make sure it is moved

[14:37] all the way over to the right then we're

[14:39] going to go to the actual Panda and

[14:41] we're going to hold shift and then move

[14:45] the head to the right we hold shift so

[14:48] that it doesn't accidentally go up or

[14:50] down it keeps it on the

[14:52] x-axis and then if we move this over

[14:55] it'll show that just the head is moving

[14:57] to the right it may look a little a

[14:59] little awkward because the eyes don't

[15:00] move with it the ears and the mouth

[15:02] don't move with it and that's okay

[15:04] because we're only moving the the actual

[15:06] literal head part right

[15:08] now then once we do this we have to show

[15:12] that the the side of the head is moving

[15:14] backward a little bit right so in order

[15:16] to give this effect we're going to hold

[15:19] left click and

[15:21] push the

[15:23] middle the bottom and the top of the

[15:27] head in a bit the middle will probably

[15:30] be the one that's pushed in the

[15:32] most and then if you want to take a look

[15:35] you get a little bit of a curvature

[15:37] effect here again it's going to look a

[15:40] little weird because the other parts of

[15:41] the face aren't moving with it yet so

[15:44] what we're going to do is instead of

[15:46] manually doing the same thing for the

[15:48] left we can actually tell the program to

[15:51] reflect it over for us so we're going to

[15:53] keep our DOT over to the right and we're

[15:56] going to go down to this three line or

[15:58] Hamburg menu that says show pallet menu

[16:01] we click on this and then we get this

[16:03] menu that says reflect motion we can

[16:06] click on that it tells us what we're on

[16:08] which is the actual head and we can

[16:09] choose to reflect horizontally or

[16:11] vertically we want to reflect

[16:13] horizontally hit okay so

[16:17] now without having to manually do it

[16:20] which would cause a lot of issues it

[16:22] probably wouldn't line up perfectly the

[16:25] program is smart enough to realize hey

[16:27] we can do that for you so before we go

[16:30] and move everything else on the x-axis I

[16:32] like to just jump right right to moving

[16:35] the head on the y axis so what we're

[16:38] going to do is we're going to click on

[16:40] the x axis one more this little button

[16:44] here that lets you input a number and

[16:46] just set it to zero so it's back in the

[16:48] neutral position then we're going to go

[16:50] to angle Y and hit three new key

[16:53] parameters again or three new key forms

[16:56] my apologies then we're going to move

[16:59] all the way to the right now when the

[17:01] for the Y AIS moving the dot to the

[17:05] right means you're looking up that'll be

[17:07] when the O's looking up and then moving

[17:09] it all the way to the left is when it's

[17:11] looking down so for looking up all we're

[17:15] going to

[17:16] do is we're just going to hold shift

[17:19] again and push it up a bit I also like

[17:21] to grab this little dot here on the

[17:24] middle and hold shift and push this up a

[17:27] little bit as well

[17:29] and then if we take a look I like to do

[17:33] that then now for the x axis I showed

[17:36] you that you could reflect horizontally

[17:37] and vertically I actually don't like to

[17:40] do that for the Y AIS I prefer to

[17:42] manually do it so if you want to you can

[17:46] hit the hamburger menu and do reflect

[17:50] vertically I prefer to do it manually so

[17:53] for the angle y i just scoot My Little

[17:55] Dot all the way over hold shift push

[17:58] push it down this time and then hold

[18:01] shift again and push down the Green

[18:05] Dot and now I have my little head motion

[18:09] there we have one last part of the head

[18:11] before we can move on to the ears and

[18:13] the eyes and the mouth and get

[18:15] everything moving together click on the

[18:17] little numerical value on the right set

[18:19] it to zero then we're going to go back

[18:21] to the pallet menu here and there will

[18:23] be something called synthesize Corners

[18:26] go ahead and click on that make sure

[18:28] parameter 1 says angle X and parameter 2

[18:31] says angle y then we hit okay what this

[18:34] does is it syncs up these two parameter

[18:37] so that it'll flow nicely so what we can

[18:40] do is on the far left here right before

[18:43] the text is we can click on it and it'll

[18:46] merge the two together so if I move the

[18:50] dot around in this little grid it'll

[18:53] show us that the head is moving around

[18:57] now if you want to get fan see some

[18:59] people will get really intricate with

[19:01] their head motions and their mouth and

[19:04] edit it but as this is a beginner's

[19:06] first rig tutorial I'm not going to get

[19:08] into that we're just trying to make sure

[19:10] that the head can move around now let's

[19:13] do the ears so I had you put the ears in

[19:18] a warp deformer first that is because

[19:21] this will allow us to move both ears at

[19:23] once but before you move the ears we

[19:26] still want to add an art mesh to them

[19:29] so what we can do is we can grab the L

[19:32] ear and then we hold on to control and

[19:34] grab the r ear this will allow us to

[19:36] mesh both of them at the same time then

[19:39] we go to up to this button that says

[19:40] Auto which is our automatic mesh

[19:42] generator we can go ahead and hit

[19:44] standard again and then there we have it

[19:47] they are already meshed and ready to go

[19:50] now you could go to the warp deformer

[19:52] and try to move meshes without having

[19:55] them properly or try to move our part

[19:58] without having the mesh I've done that

[20:01] before and it it just it can get goofy

[20:05] we're going to repeat a lot of the

[20:07] similar processes we just did for the

[20:09] head so go ahead and go to angle X and

[20:12] add three key forms make sure you move

[20:15] the Red Dot over to the right and once

[20:18] again I'm going to hold shift grab this

[20:21] little thing in the middle scoot the ear

[20:24] over then I'm going to grab this Green

[20:27] Dot and just tuck it in

[20:30] and as for how much or how little you

[20:32] want to tuck something in that's really

[20:34] up to you what do you think is going to

[20:37] help you achieve that turning effect and

[20:41] then of course you can check it I think

[20:42] I want to tuck this ear in even

[20:44] [Music]

[20:46] more to help with that

[20:49] turning and the more pieces you start to

[20:52] turn the more uh the the head turn will

[20:57] come together and of course um you can

[21:00] go back and adjust these as you go reset

[21:03] this back to

[21:04] neutral go to the angle y do the same

[21:08] thing I'm just going to scoot the ear up

[21:10] a

[21:11] bit push it

[21:13] up scoot the ear down a bit scoot it

[21:18] down and then synthesize the corners by

[21:21] going to that same menu hitting

[21:22] synthesized Corners we still want angle

[21:25] X and Y hit okay and then there you have

[21:30] it the ears are now moving with the head

[21:34] now maybe we want to do some eyes so we

[21:38] can go and find our eyes hold down

[21:41] control and grab every single eye art

[21:44] piece you can do the standard mesh again

[21:48] I'm going a little bit faster because as

[21:50] you begin to repeat these processes

[21:52] you'll start to get the hang of it a

[21:54] little bit more and then I had you put

[21:57] eyes in a warp deformer this is why I

[21:59] like warp deformers because they make

[22:02] doing these motions a lot easier so

[22:04] you're not moving every individual art

[22:06] piece over you're instead moving like a

[22:08] group of art

[22:10] pieces so for this you have the little

[22:15] uh Pink part of the panda's fur to help

[22:18] guide you on like where the eye should

[22:21] go so you're not scooting it over too

[22:24] much or too little which I hope will uh

[22:28] help

[22:29] you when it comes

[22:32] to the Head turns and you can of course

[22:36] reflect this on the eye as well and

[22:39] we'll want to do the same thing for

[22:41] angle

[22:48] [Music]

[22:54] Y and then synthesize the corners once

[22:58] again

[22:59] let's go ahead and do the nose

[23:01] next so grab the

[23:04] nose if you're on the paid version go

[23:07] ahead and give it a warp deformer even

[23:11] if you're on the free version try to

[23:13] create as many warp deformers as you can

[23:15] until you run out of space or until it

[23:18] won't let you do it anymore and again

[23:21] we're going to add a standard mesh to

[23:24] the

[23:25] nose now the nose is really the part

[23:28] that's going to help us create that

[23:31] movement of the face

[23:34] turning so we're going to just do the

[23:36] same thing we're going to scoot the nose

[23:38] over however when the face turns the

[23:41] nose does a lot of the Turning too so

[23:44] something that we can do to

[23:46] really

[23:47] help show this is we can just push the

[23:51] mesh over like this maybe we even move

[23:54] the middle piece of the mesh

[23:57] too maybe maybe not that far but you

[24:01] know just to show like wow it's

[24:04] moving and of course we can adjust it

[24:07] more as we need to Let's reflect it for

[24:13] now and then we'll do the up and the

[24:16] down

[24:33] synthesize them let's do the mouth now

[24:37] the mouth is going to require a lot of

[24:40] intricate meshing so we're actually not

[24:43] going to mesh the mouth right now we're

[24:44] just going to try to get it into a nice

[24:48] position so for this you can just grab

[24:50] the mouth warp deformer you made make

[24:53] your three key form scoot it over and

[24:56] then try to find a nice position for the

[25:01] mouth I like to curl it up a little bit

[25:03] with my mesh like

[25:07] this then we'll do the angle y

[25:12] version which will just be pushing up

[25:14] the mouth a little bit and then pushing

[25:17] down the

[25:19] mouth yeah and of course synthesize the

[25:23] corners once more let's go ahead and

[25:26] check our work and see how well we did

[25:29] or what little edits that need to be

[25:32] made once again we go to modeling at the

[25:33] upper left corner here physics settings

[25:37] now we have her breathing that

[25:38] automatically shows but in order to make

[25:40] the model turn its head and whatnot we

[25:42] just grab our Mouse hold down left click

[25:46] and then move it

[25:47] around so I see

[25:50] here that the head turn that I made was

[25:53] pretty subtle like yes the head turns

[25:55] but it's not a very dramatic head turn

[25:57] and hon hly if you want if you like this

[26:01] type of head turn that's fine you don't

[26:03] have to make it super dramatic you know

[26:05] depending on the model some people have

[26:07] like really really stunning head turns

[26:09] and they're able to get a very dramatic

[26:12] range and some are very subtle like this

[26:15] I'm going to go ahead and keep it subtle

[26:17] as head turns are a lot tougher than

[26:19] they look but of course if you want to

[26:22] like really tuck this ear behind and

[26:24] make this ear stick out you can you can

[26:26] play with it if you would like

[26:28] there is one last part to the head that

[26:31] I would like to do with you so we're

[26:33] going to grab the head warp deformer not

[26:37] the actual head that we did together but

[26:39] the head and we're going to go up here

[26:43] to this one that says create rotation

[26:46] deformer we can go ahead and label this

[26:49] head

[26:51] Z it's going to create this little

[26:53] symbol here go ahead and hold control

[26:57] shift and drag it down just underneath

[27:01] the line that's at the bottom of the

[27:03] head then we can go hit angle Z of our

[27:07] head angles this is a really cute and

[27:10] fun movement you can do and it's really

[27:12] simple once you have this setup go ahead

[27:14] and select three key forms move it to

[27:18] the right and then you'll have this

[27:20] little like curved line that appears at

[27:22] the

[27:23] edge and go ahead and tilt the Panda's

[27:26] head as much as you want now don't go

[27:28] too far because the body is only drawn

[27:31] so much to the back but feel free to

[27:35] just give it like a little head tilt and

[27:37] just like we have in the past you you

[27:40] can go to this little pallet menu

[27:43] reflect motion

[27:44] horizontally and now your Panda can do

[27:48] little head tilts back and forth

[27:51] rotation deformers like this are really

[27:54] good for the Z movement and it's

[27:56] honestly a really cute movement that you

[27:58] can do on humans too and it's also

[28:00] really good for wings and at the very

[28:03] end of the video if you feel confident

[28:05] with rigging I'll show you how to do

[28:07] some Wing some very simple uh Wing

[28:10] rigging which is why I included them as

[28:13] like a little fun extra challenge for

[28:14] you so stay tuned to the end if you want

[28:17] to give yourself a little challenge all

[28:20] right so now you have your head

[28:22] movements done we've got a z movement

[28:26] we're going to work on the eyes next and

[28:28] the eyes are going to be pretty

[28:32] interesting and they're not going to be

[28:33] super tough with the way I've drawn this

[28:35] model so you can go ahead and pick

[28:37] whether you want the right eye or the

[28:39] left eye whichever one suits your fancy

[28:43] I'm going to work on this ey which is

[28:45] the model's left it's our right the

[28:47] model's

[28:49] left now again if you have warped

[28:52] deformers to spare go ahead and put the

[28:55] left eye in its own

[28:57] deformer it just it helps to be

[28:59] organized and you'll find as you

[29:02] continue to rig that you'll find your

[29:05] level of organization if you're someone

[29:07] who likes to be very meticulous or

[29:09] someone who is okay with being a bit

[29:11] looser you'll find you'll find what

[29:14] level works best for you but we'll go

[29:16] ahead and put the left eye which is the

[29:18] LI eye shine L eye glow and the L eye

[29:21] ball in its own uh deformer for now next

[29:24] what we're going to do is we're going to

[29:26] grab the LI shine and the Li glow go

[29:29] ahead and hold control to grab both of

[29:31] these hit inspector and then we see this

[29:35] clipping ID option right here go ahead

[29:38] and click that it's going to pull up all

[29:41] of our art layers we're going to scroll

[29:45] until we see the eyes which is actually

[29:46] the very first thing and we're going to

[29:49] clip it to the L eye ball clipping the

[29:51] LI ey shine and the LI ey glow is going

[29:53] to make this next part so much easier

[29:55] what you're going to do is you're going

[29:56] to add two key forms to the LI open and

[30:00] then you're going to keep the Red Dot to

[30:02] the left you'll see this red box appear

[30:05] around your eye which is what we

[30:08] want and what we're going to do is we're

[30:10] going to

[30:11] squish it down from the front and then

[30:14] we're going to squish this down from the

[30:17] bottom and we're going to go ahead and

[30:19] get it pretty close so that when we have

[30:22] our movement it looks like the panda is

[30:25] squishing its eyes shut now with human

[30:28] model you're going to have eyelashes and

[30:31] those eyelashes are going to help you

[30:32] create that closed look but for this

[30:35] little Panda I made the eyes very very

[30:37] simple so you can just get an idea of

[30:39] what it's like to move the top part of

[30:42] the eye down and the bottom part of the

[30:44] eye up so you can create a nice little

[30:47] blinking motion now that we have your

[30:50] eyes squished together for this blinking

[30:54] motion I'm going to actually introduce

[30:56] to you your first met physics and that

[30:59] is going to be with the LI I glow and

[31:02] the LI I shine so for this what we're

[31:06] going to do is we're going to create a

[31:08] parameter and we're going to call this I

[31:11] jiggle X you want the minimum to be -30

[31:15] and the maximum to be -30 hit

[31:19] okay we're also going to create a

[31:22] parameter we're going to call this I

[31:25] jiggle y same minimum and maximum

[31:29] we have the LI glow for the X1 we are

[31:33] squishing from left to right so you can

[31:36] choose how much you want to squish it

[31:39] I'm just going

[31:40] [Music]

[31:42] to see I made that mistake I mentioned

[31:45] at the beginning of the video make sure

[31:46] you add two key forms um with the L eye

[31:49] glow a red box is going to

[31:52] appear you can squish it as much or as

[31:55] little as you want just make sure you

[31:56] drag the Red Dot over to the right

[31:59] before you make your movement and do the

[32:02] same with the L shine if you want to

[32:05] make the movement a little bit more

[32:06] interesting squish one a little bit more

[32:09] than the

[32:10] other so I chose to squish my li glow

[32:14] layer more than the LI shine layer do

[32:17] the same thing with the I jiggle y

[32:19] parameter you just made except now

[32:23] you're going to be squishing up and

[32:26] down so squishing this one up and down

[32:30] and I'm going to do the same thing here

[32:32] make sure you add your two key forms and

[32:34] move your dot all the way over to the

[32:36] right as you do

[32:39] this all right so now they are moving up

[32:42] and down and then you'll want to

[32:45] synthesize your Corners like we've been

[32:47] doing make sure it says parameter 1 is I

[32:49] jiggle X and parameter 2 is I jiggle y

[32:53] you'll want to synthesize them

[32:58] all

[33:00] right once you have done that I'm going

[33:02] to show you how to set it up in the

[33:07] model so when you create physics they're

[33:10] not going to automatically apply so if

[33:13] you want to test out your blink you can

[33:15] go to the iil and

[33:17] just test it out for yourself like this

[33:20] by moving the slider or you can go to

[33:23] this little box this says pattern a and

[33:25] then scroll down and hit posing and then

[33:27] there's this little play button here and

[33:29] once you hit the play button it will

[33:31] actually play all of the different

[33:32] things you've rigged so far on your

[33:34] model and then hopefully there we go

[33:37] it'll do the blink and you can see how

[33:39] the model's moving so far I'm going to

[33:42] go ahead and hit pause I'm actually

[33:44] going to reopen it so it's back in the

[33:46] neutral position and what we're going to

[33:48] do is you're going to see this this

[33:50] whole menu it's it's dulled right now

[33:54] we're going to hit add we're going to

[33:56] call this I

[33:58] Jiggles we're going to hit add and we

[34:01] want this to jiggle whenever the I and

[34:04] the IR open happens we're going to

[34:07] change the effectiveness to 50 and for

[34:09] this section feel free to copy

[34:12] everything I do as

[34:14] is then for the pendulum go ahead and

[34:17] just hit add it'll add a default

[34:20] setting for the output we want the

[34:23] outputs to be our I jiggle X and the I

[34:26] jiggle y because that's that's what we

[34:28] had rigged for the

[34:30] physics now in order to test this we go

[34:33] to our eyes again and we just move this

[34:35] parameter right right now nothing's

[34:38] really happening that's because our

[34:40] output and our scale is really really

[34:42] low to change that we just hit the

[34:45] increase output button and now we'll see

[34:47] that this has changed to an output of

[34:49] 100 and a scale of about 33 let's do

[34:52] this again now you can

[34:55] see let me really zoom in on the eye

[34:59] here that the eye has a subtle jiggle

[35:02] whenever you open and close it now here

[35:06] once again this is the very very basic

[35:08] way of doing this but this is where you

[35:11] can add different levels to the pendulum

[35:15] you can choose how long it lasts for how

[35:17] much it shakes down here the reaction

[35:19] time to get different effects you can

[35:23] choose how many pendulums you want so if

[35:25] we add another pendulum you can see like

[35:29] the little difference there so again

[35:31] this is once you have this basic set up

[35:34] here you can start to play with it to

[35:36] see the different

[35:37] effects and and see what you can do but

[35:42] congratulations you have just not only

[35:45] rigged your first physic parameter but

[35:47] you made your first little physics piece

[35:50] now it is time to make the other eye

[35:52] match now if you're on the free version

[35:55] you might have to manually do everything

[35:57] we just did did again however I

[36:00] encourage you to try to follow along

[36:01] with the steps I'm about to show you in

[36:03] case the free version does let you

[36:05] repeat these steps I genuinely don't

[36:07] know but what I'm about to show you will

[36:10] let you have the eyes match each other

[36:12] perfectly without having to redo

[36:14] everything again so we've been working

[36:17] on this eyeball what we're going to do

[36:19] is we're going to hold control and left

[36:23] click the L eyeball the L eye glow L ey

[36:26] shine and the left eye deformer we

[36:29] created then we're going to go to the

[36:31] main eyes deformer that we created

[36:34] earlier what we've done is we selected

[36:36] the art meshes from before and the whole

[36:39] art layer that the eyes is attached to

[36:42] or the deformer then we're going to hold

[36:45] contrl C and contrl V to copy and paste

[36:48] the I we just

[36:50] did then what we can do is right

[36:53] click go to the very bottom I know my

[36:56] model is covering it but at the very

[36:58] very bottom there's a there's a menu

[37:00] that says reflect you're going to hit

[37:03] reflect all right and it'll let you

[37:05] choose what parameters to reflect you're

[37:08] going to hit angle X and I jigle X and

[37:12] then hit

[37:13] okay and this is how you make your eyes

[37:16] match once your eyes

[37:19] match you can delete the parameters from

[37:24] the r eyeball you can delete R eyeball r

[37:27] i glow and R I shine that was there as

[37:31] just a placeholder to make sure that you

[37:32] did it right now it actually turns out I

[37:35] made a mistake the ey Jiggles are

[37:39] backwards so this just tells me I did an

[37:42] oopsie I checked out the I checked the I

[37:45] jiggle X when I shouldn't have and if

[37:48] you did that same thing don't worry

[37:50] because you can go back and fix it if

[37:52] you hit contrl Z you can undo mistakes

[37:55] that you've made but do not spam contrl

[37:58] Z because you might actually undo good

[38:01] work you've done so just slowly undo

[38:04] contrl Z until you're back to this point

[38:07] where you have to reflect the

[38:08] eye hit right click again

[38:12] reflect do hit angle X but don't hit

[38:15] Iggle X and then you can test it again

[38:18] and there we go we're on the same page

[38:21] now that you know how you can fix a

[38:23] mistake what we're going to do now is we

[38:26] want the Cana to be able to wink at us

[38:29] so before we click off of

[38:31] this what we're going to do is we're

[38:33] going to go to the I open and we if we

[38:37] scroll all the way over to the right we

[38:38] get this little menu there's a Green Dot

[38:41] with a plus gray one with a minus and

[38:44] then we have this little menu we're

[38:45] going to go to the bottom and select

[38:47] change and this will allow us to move it

[38:49] to I are open which will let us

[38:54] wink now we can go ahead and delete the

[38:57] the r ey shine r i glow and the r

[39:00] eyeball now we can clearly

[39:03] see the panda is able to wink let's go

[39:06] ahead and just take a look at our work

[39:09] modeling physics setting we can go up to

[39:12] pattern a here hit posing and then hit

[39:15] the play

[39:18] button right now it's just tilting its

[39:21] head a bit I'm waiting for the blink and

[39:23] there you go we can see the subtle bit

[39:25] of the eye Jiggles which are the physics

[39:27] that we we put in

[39:29] congratulations you have done your eyes

[39:31] and you've even figured out some IE

[39:33] jiggle physics you'll probably see that

[39:35] in your eye folder we didn't touch eye

[39:38] Smiles or eyeball X and Y eyeball X is

[39:43] when the eyeball itself is when your

[39:45] eyes move left and right eyeball y

[39:48] That's when they move up and down for a

[39:51] model like this there's not really a

[39:54] whole lot going on that can make the

[39:56] eyes move that way but for a human model

[39:58] you'll probably move it that way I'm

[40:01] going to show you what it would look

[40:02] like if you wanted to do these motions

[40:05] but they're not going to be rigged on

[40:07] this Panda model but essentially if you

[40:09] wanted to do eyeball X or Y it's quite

[40:12] literally this simple you just hold down

[40:15] the shift move it to the right move it

[40:18] to the

[40:20] left if you want to do eyeball y you

[40:22] move it up and then you move it down and

[40:26] you synthesize the corner corers which

[40:27] is what I've been showing you multiple

[40:29] times throughout the video and there's

[40:31] your eyeball X and Y let's work on our

[40:33] arms shall we so typically when it comes

[40:36] to the body you'll be moving stuff on a

[40:38] human model like clothes and arms and

[40:41] whatnot now for arms like these these

[40:43] are in front of the body so instead of

[40:45] showing you how to like put one arm in

[40:47] front of the other I'm just going to

[40:49] show you a cute little motion you can do

[40:52] so we can go to our arm deformer grab

[40:55] our L arm and R arm

[40:57] standard mesh

[41:00] it pick whichever arm you want to work

[41:02] on whether it be L arm or R arm I'll do

[41:05] the left and I'm going to show you to

[41:08] create a rotation

[41:10] deformer you don't have to name it if

[41:12] you don't want to I'm not going to hold

[41:14] down

[41:16] control and move this keep holding down

[41:19] control and this will allow you to

[41:21] change the direction in which your

[41:23] rotation deformer

[41:26] is now now what you can do is I'll I'll

[41:29] do this on body X create three key

[41:34] forms move it to the right move this

[41:36] slightly

[41:38] up and then move this slightly

[41:43] down now your arm will move slightly up

[41:47] and

[41:48] down now if you do not want to redo this

[41:52] little tiny motion you do the same thing

[41:55] I did with the eyes you you make sure

[41:57] you have arms rotation highlighted hold

[41:59] down control grab the larm grab the

[42:02] whole warp deformer the arms are

[42:05] inrl c crl v to copy paste right click

[42:09] get the whole model hit

[42:12] reflect hit

[42:14] okay and now the arms will move slightly

[42:18] once you've confirmed that everything

[42:20] looks okay go ahead and delete the right

[42:24] arm go to modeling physics settings

[42:27] and now whenever the model looks left

[42:31] and right the arms will also move up and

[42:34] down I'm going to go ahead and do the

[42:37] same thing with the feet because this

[42:39] will just add a little extra motion to

[42:40] the model and it's a simple motion you

[42:42] can do too so grab the feet again give

[42:46] it a not that menu give it a standard

[42:50] mesh pick which foot you want to work

[42:53] with I'll grab this one grab the

[42:56] rotation to form armor hold control move

[42:59] it where you want it to go keep holding

[43:01] control to change the

[43:03] direction I'm going to do it on body X

[43:07] again three key forms I'm going to have

[43:11] the foot go

[43:13] out and then the foot go

[43:18] in and then grab the feet

[43:22] rotation grab the left foot grab the

[43:25] whole feet warp deformer you made contrl

[43:29] Ctrl V right click reflect

[43:37] okay it actually looks like the panda is

[43:40] now tagging its

[43:41] feet go ahead and delete the right foot

[43:45] that you no longer need now if we check

[43:47] our work we got a little bit of body

[43:50] movement now it's not a ton but this

[43:53] body was drawn in a way to where you

[43:54] wouldn't need a lot of body MO

[43:58] movement so now let's work on the mouth

[44:01] and the mouth is one of the most complex

[44:05] part of a model in my opinion but when

[44:08] it comes to a pet model I just wanted to

[44:11] show you some of the basics that goes

[44:14] into mouth riging and so that's what

[44:17] we're going to focus

[44:18] on so this part instead of standard

[44:22] meshing which you can do if you do not

[44:24] want to manually mesh it you could

[44:25] standard mesh it if you want but I I

[44:27] want you to not be afraid of manually

[44:29] meshing where you need to so I'm going

[44:31] to show you how to do that the manually

[44:33] mesh it's right next to the standard

[44:35] mesh it's just the one over we're going

[44:38] to go ahead and click it what we're

[44:40] going to do is we're going to grab the

[44:41] lasso tool which is right under tool

[44:44] details here grab this whole thing with

[44:47] the upper lip that we're on and delete

[44:50] it then we're going going to go to the

[44:52] plus button right now there's not a

[44:55] whole lot going on but we're going to

[44:56] hit this box that says mirror edit now

[45:00] there's a line here so that we only have

[45:02] to create half of the little

[45:04] vertices I like to start in the center

[45:07] and work on the

[45:09] top this is going to give us so much

[45:12] more control over the

[45:14] mouth you can choose how close or how

[45:18] far you want to put the dots but I like

[45:21] to put them decently close together for

[45:23] the

[45:24] mouth I also like to put put dots right

[45:29] on the actual mouth

[45:32] itself and then once I get a piece that

[45:36] I'm happy with make sure that everything

[45:38] is closed then you can hit

[45:40] autoconnect and the check

[45:43] mark you did a manual mesh it seems a

[45:47] little crazy at first but it's actually

[45:48] not too bad once you have this manual

[45:52] mesh you can go and hit the last so tool

[45:55] again this might not be a available on

[45:57] the free version so let me know but what

[46:00] you can do is you can hit contrl + C to

[46:03] copy

[46:04] this go to the lower lip do the lasso

[46:08] tool just like last time and delete the

[46:10] vertices from before and then hit contrl

[46:12] + V now the vertices are exactly the

[46:14] same as the one on the upper and the

[46:17] lower lip just for a bit more

[46:18] consistency if you were unable to do

[46:21] this step I just showed you don't worry

[46:23] it's not going to matter on a model like

[46:25] this but I just wanted to show you that

[46:27] this is very possible and it's going to

[46:28] be helpful if you go into rigging

[46:31] further now we have meshes like the

[46:33] upper skin and the lower skin that I

[46:35] want you to manually mesh as well again

[46:38] you could standard mesh it if you want

[46:41] but you'll have a lot more control over

[46:43] it if you manually mesh it

[46:46] yourself so here we are we're going to

[46:49] do the same method as before with the

[46:51] upper

[46:53] skin go to our plus button after we

[46:55] delete the four ver sees have our mirror

[46:58] edit which should automatically be on

[47:00] now cuz we clicked it

[47:02] before I like to start at the top and I

[47:05] like to have a lot of dots on the

[47:08] top and then as I get closer to the

[47:12] bottom I like to space them out

[47:14] more and it's okay if you are away from

[47:19] the actual art part that is

[47:23] fine then once I get here I just slow

[47:26] slly work my way

[47:29] up if I get to a point on the edge I can

[47:33] just go up here to the selection

[47:36] tool go back to the

[47:38] middle and then start working my way

[47:41] back up

[47:43] again this will help you have more

[47:46] control over your

[47:49] mesh I just want you to not be afraid to

[47:53] manually mesh especially because there

[47:56] are situations like the mouth where it

[47:59] can be very advantageous for you to do

[48:04] so once you feel like you've gotten a

[48:06] decent mesh go ahead and hit autoconnect

[48:09] and hit the check mark we're going to do

[48:11] the same thing with the lower skin exact

[48:14] same process I'll still walk you through

[48:17] it sometimes hearing the repetition can

[48:20] really help if you're feeling confident

[48:22] feel free to skip ahead in the video a

[48:23] little bit otherwise feel free

[48:27] to just listen along

[48:31] as I get these dots in there like see

[48:35] how I did this angle a little harsh

[48:37] again you can use contrl

[48:39] Z to undo some of the dots and again

[48:44] don't spam control Z I know it can be

[48:48] very tempting to just Spam control Z to

[48:52] get to a better place but I can tell you

[48:55] from experience I have b control

[48:58] Z way way too much and I have lost good

[49:01] work because I had gotten frustrated and

[49:05] just undid it this might help you it

[49:09] might not but I want you to have the

[49:11] confidence to be able to manually mesh

[49:14] when

[49:22] appropriate all right hit autoconnect

[49:24] when you're done now that you have your

[49:26] upper scale skin your lower skin lower

[49:28] lip and upper lip meshed it is time for

[49:31] me to introduce to you the deform path

[49:33] edit tool what this does is it gives us

[49:36] a line to work with when it comes to

[49:38] things like this so for a line like this

[49:41] it's squiggly I like to put a dot here

[49:44] here in the

[49:46] middle basically on each of the corners

[49:50] the

[49:51] middle and each in

[49:54] between do the same for the lower

[49:57] lip try to get it as close as you

[50:02] can and then for the upper

[50:05] skin do it to the edge of the mesh but

[50:08] you're still following that little wavy

[50:10] line format same with the lower skin

[50:13] except for doing it to the end of the

[50:17] mesh this is going to make opening the

[50:20] mouth easier for us so typically in

[50:23] order to get multiple mouth forms you

[50:25] you have the mouth open which is what

[50:28] we're going to rig here but you also

[50:30] have mouth forms which allows you to get

[50:31] different shapes like for example my

[50:33] model throughout this entire video

[50:34] you've probably seen

[50:36] it change into different shapes we are

[50:40] not going to be rigging any mouth forms

[50:42] I just want you to see what it's like to

[50:45] add art

[50:46] meshes and open the mouth once to get

[50:49] just one open form it'll be like a

[50:52] puppet in a

[50:53] way so what we're going to do is we're

[50:55] going to grab the low lower lip and

[50:57] we're going to change our tool to the

[50:59] arrow tool go ahead and add two key

[51:01] frames and move it all the way to the

[51:04] right then we're going to hold down

[51:05] shift and move down

[51:08] this lip

[51:10] line then we can use the green dots to

[51:13] our advantage to

[51:18] really

[51:19] [Music]

[51:21] curve this into a mouth shape that we

[51:24] like now this is where you can add the

[51:26] grid back remember how at the very

[51:28] beginning I said to get rid of it well

[51:30] this grid we can add back it's next to

[51:33] this button that says solo right here we

[51:35] can add that back to make sure that this

[51:38] is as symmetrical as we can get it so

[51:42] like we can make sure that this Green

[51:43] Dot is on this little line

[51:46] here you know just try to get it as

[51:48] close as we can and

[51:50] now we have this motion of the mouth

[51:54] opening but that's not enough because

[51:57] that all that does is open the line we

[51:58] need to see the mouth inside that we

[52:00] drew so now what we're going to do is

[52:03] the lower skin that we meshed we're

[52:05] going to go ahead and add two key frames

[52:07] again make sure we're on the far right

[52:09] we're going to use the arrow tool and

[52:11] open that mouth up yeah that's right

[52:15] we'll frame it to the lower lip we just

[52:19] created and then would you look at that

[52:22] there's our beautiful mouth we got the

[52:25] tongue we drew and even the lower teeth

[52:27] are showing a bit so

[52:31] now we've got this motion I'm going to

[52:34] go ahead and get rid of the grid again

[52:36] so you guys can see the art a bit more

[52:38] clearly but what if I what what if what

[52:41] if we can make this a little bit more

[52:44] interesting all right firstly the upper

[52:47] teeth are a little bit too high when

[52:49] this happens don't don't key it to

[52:51] anything if you want the upper teeth to

[52:53] show we can just push it down a little

[52:55] bit and there we go now the upper teeth

[52:58] will

[52:59] show okay cool we solved that problem

[53:03] but what if we want the lower teeth and

[53:05] the oral which is the back of the mouth

[53:07] to do a little bit something more

[53:10] interesting

[53:12] well go ahead and add it as our key

[53:18] frame and now whenever the mouth opens

[53:20] by just just all we did is I moved it

[53:23] down a little bit that's all I did I

[53:25] tucked it down it looks like when the

[53:28] jaw

[53:29] opens the mouth will slowly move down

[53:33] with it which gives it just that little

[53:35] bit of extra depth without having to go

[53:37] super crazy with any any rigging

[53:39] techniques I know it's been a while make

[53:41] sure you've been saving let's go ahead

[53:44] and go to

[53:46] modeling and let's go to posing and let

[53:49] it play now we have a mouth that moves

[53:53] you're pretty darn close there's one

[53:55] more thing I want to to show you that

[53:57] you can do to really bring this model to

[53:59] life there's one last raking motion I

[54:01] wanted to show you to really help bring

[54:04] this model together and that is bouncy

[54:07] physics so once again I'm going to be

[54:10] showing you the physics menu but before

[54:12] that we're going to create a parameter

[54:14] we're going to call this bounce X

[54:16] minimum of -30 maximum of

[54:18] 30 and bounce

[54:21] y remember at the beginning how I said

[54:24] to create a Warp deformer the entire

[54:26] model this is where it's be going to

[54:28] become handy again we're going to select

[54:31] the entire model we're going to go to

[54:33] bounce X do two key frames scoot it all

[54:38] the way over to the right and we're just

[54:40] going to push the model on the x-axis

[54:43] together it does not have to be

[54:45] symmetrical just as long as you got a

[54:48] squishing

[54:49] motion all right and you'll do the same

[54:52] with bounce y except I personally think

[54:55] bounce y better if you only squish it

[54:58] from the top because this panda is also

[55:01] sitting so it would be weird if the

[55:03] bottom squishes up with it so I like to

[55:06] just squish it from the top then go

[55:08] ahead and synthesize the

[55:11] corners if you want to see it in

[55:15] practice we got a little motion going

[55:17] here but once again when it comes to

[55:20] physics we do have to apply it to the

[55:22] menu so let's go to the physics setting

[55:24] menu and get that applied okay we're

[55:26] going to go hit add we're going to call

[55:29] this

[55:31] bounce we're going to add angle X and

[55:34] angle y change the effectiveness to 50

[55:38] for each make sure you hit enter so the

[55:40] numbers remember add a pendulum go to

[55:44] our output setting the output will

[55:46] always be the parameter you just worked

[55:49] on so our output will be the bounce X

[55:53] and the bounce y now right now nothing's

[55:55] really happening because again we need

[55:58] to go increase our

[56:03] output and look at that he is

[56:06] so so much more bouncy than before it

[56:10] just adds a little extra of flow to our

[56:13] little pet mascot if you want to see

[56:16] that play go ahead and hit posing and

[56:19] just watch him move and whenever he

[56:21] makes a dramatic movement to the left

[56:23] right up or down there will be a little

[56:25] bit of Squish up or down that just makes

[56:27] it feel a little bit more

[56:30] livik uh than before if you do not like

[56:33] how this motion turned out don't add it

[56:36] but if you do like it you can adjust

[56:39] again the intensity how much you want

[56:41] him to be squished or not

[56:44] congratulations you have completed your

[56:46] very first rig in live GD

[56:49] cism however I did mention if you wanted

[56:53] a challenge that I would show you how to

[56:55] rig some B bat wings so if you're here

[56:58] for the challenge if you're feeling

[56:59] confident feeling good let me show you

[57:01] how to rig some bat wings for the bat

[57:03] wings we're going to open the

[57:05] breathing parameter from

[57:08] before and we're going to go to either

[57:11] r-wing or l-wing once again you get to

[57:13] pick which one you you like better

[57:16] either way we're going to add a standard

[57:19] mesh to

[57:20] both then I'll be working on this Wing

[57:23] over here I I like to always work

[57:26] towards my right the model's left that's

[57:28] just how my brain works go ahead and add

[57:31] a rotation

[57:33] deformer hold

[57:35] control scoot it over keep holding

[57:38] control to change the

[57:40] direction now I'm going to add three key

[57:43] forms to breath which is something we've

[57:46] already worked on to get the panda to

[57:48] breathe up and down but when we move the

[57:51] Red Dot all the way to the right we are

[57:54] going to

[57:57] make the wing go up and then make the

[58:01] wing go

[58:03] down all

[58:06] right now this is a simple movement I've

[58:08] already shown you how to do you could

[58:10] leave it at this but what if you want to

[58:13] make the Batwing a little bit more

[58:15] interesting well let's create a

[58:18] parameter and call this batwing move

[58:23] minimum 30 maximum 30

[58:27] we're going to go to our elwing

[58:30] again add three key

[58:32] forms and then I'm going to introduce to

[58:34] you the deform brush tool what this does

[58:37] is it basically allows us to just squish

[58:41] things before we were always squishing

[58:43] things with a box around it but now you

[58:45] can manually squish things if you so

[58:49] desire so what we're going to do is with

[58:52] the Batwing the new batwing uh

[58:56] parameter you created when it's all the

[58:58] way to the right we're going to squish

[59:00] the wing outward as if the bat is

[59:04] stretching out its wings and this does

[59:07] not have to be

[59:08] perfect you want to try to keep it as

[59:11] smooth as you can but you might not be

[59:14] able

[59:15] [Music]

[59:17] to I just wanted to show you that this

[59:21] deform tool exists and you can also do

[59:24] this with a deformer box it might be

[59:27] easier to do with a deformer box but I

[59:30] want to show you that this little path

[59:32] tool exists so now it looks like the

[59:34] wing is being stretched outward now

[59:36] we're going to squish it inward like

[59:38] they're folding the wing in now

[59:40] typically you would have multiple layers

[59:42] here so you can help show that the wing

[59:47] is folding in on itself but this is one

[59:49] layer so we're just going to pull it in

[59:52] as much as we

[59:54] can by squishing

[59:57] [Music]

[1:00:04] this all right so just by squishing out

[1:00:08] squishing out squishing in once you have

[1:00:11] this this is where it gets a little bit

[1:00:14] interesting going to go to modeling go

[1:00:17] to physics settings now because it we

[1:00:20] rigged the rotation deformer on

[1:00:22] breathing it's already got that done in

[1:00:23] for us awesome

[1:00:26] what we're going to do is we're going to

[1:00:27] add a new physics menu and we're going

[1:00:30] to call this a

[1:00:32] Batwing we're going to hit add we're

[1:00:35] going to add our input as

[1:00:39] breathing we're going to have the

[1:00:40] effectiveness be 100 add a random

[1:00:43] pendulum so we just tell it to work and

[1:00:46] then we hit batwing move as our in as

[1:00:50] our output excuse

[1:00:52] me now it's not going to work at first

[1:00:55] cuz we need to increase our

[1:00:59] output but you see we're still we're

[1:01:01] still struggling it's not really showing

[1:01:03] a lot let's add another pendulum shall

[1:01:06] we still still not working here is where

[1:01:10] we're really going to have to mess with

[1:01:12] the numbers to see how we're going to be

[1:01:15] able to get this breathe out and in

[1:01:18] motion okay I did some of the number

[1:01:21] crunching off camera so that I wouldn't

[1:01:25] bore you with with some of the numbers

[1:01:27] we now have this little circular

[1:01:30] rotation so that it isn't just an up and

[1:01:33] down Movement we instead get just a

[1:01:35] little bit of extra curiosity going on

[1:01:38] here now is this the craziest movement

[1:01:40] out there no but it's something to add

[1:01:44] just a little bit of extra curiosity to

[1:01:47] your model if you would like to copy

[1:01:50] what I have down here you are absolutely

[1:01:53] able to do so if you'd like and you can

[1:01:55] also tell how much it's moving by

[1:01:58] checking your parameter here now I can

[1:02:00] see that it's not getting all the way to

[1:02:03] the stretch motion I have but it's

[1:02:06] definitely getting to the squished

[1:02:08] motion so just to give you a bit of an

[1:02:11] idea but once you have the wing to a

[1:02:15] rigging position that you enjoy we're

[1:02:18] going to do the same copy technique

[1:02:20] we've done this entire time so hold down

[1:02:23] control grab your wing your wing

[1:02:26] rotation and then the final Wing

[1:02:27] parameter you've been in crl + C contrl

[1:02:31] V right click

[1:02:36] reflect and you shouldn't have to change

[1:02:39] any you shouldn't have to do any extra

[1:02:42] reflecting should automatically go with

[1:02:44] it and then you can delete the right

[1:02:46] wing so you will no longer need it we

[1:02:49] can go to the physic

[1:02:51] settings and you will see the wings are

[1:02:54] now rigged so you've done the rigging

[1:02:57] you've made it this far what next well

[1:03:01] let's export

[1:03:03] it let's go ahead and close make sure

[1:03:06] you're saved what we're going to do is

[1:03:08] go to modeling

[1:03:11] texture edit texture

[1:03:13] Atlas so if you're in the free version

[1:03:16] the highest amount of pixels you'll be

[1:03:18] able to export is

[1:03:20] 248 that's fine this just means that

[1:03:24] when you zoom in your model it'll get

[1:03:26] pixelated the higher you export your

[1:03:28] model one the higher the resolution will

[1:03:32] be and the more you zoom in the better

[1:03:34] the quality will

[1:03:36] keep but but keep in mind better does

[1:03:41] not you know higher pixel does not

[1:03:42] always equal better if your PC is not

[1:03:44] the best you may want to export at a

[1:03:46] lower pixel amount so it does not

[1:03:48] explode your PC I will be exporting at

[1:03:51] 4,000 pixels cuz my PC can handle it and

[1:03:54] it tends to hold up pretty decently well

[1:03:56] when zoomed in if you're on the free

[1:03:58] version again you will only be able to

[1:04:00] do

[1:04:02] 2,000 go ahead and hit okay and let the

[1:04:05] texture Atlas generate once the texture

[1:04:07] Atlas is done generating you can go

[1:04:09] ahead and hit

[1:04:10] file export for runtime export as moc3

[1:04:15] file go ahead and hit

[1:04:17] okay I'm just going to keep the name the

[1:04:20] same as Panda

[1:04:22] tutorial once it's done saving uh

[1:04:25] apologies for my mess of files go ahead

[1:04:28] and hit rightclick new

[1:04:32] folder I'm going to call this Panda

[1:04:35] tutorial then you're going to grab Panda

[1:04:38] tutorial all of the files associated

[1:04:41] with it and put it in this new folder

[1:04:43] you just

[1:04:44] made then you'll go into 52d studio and

[1:04:49] put this folder you just made into the

[1:04:52] live 2D model folder mine is clipped

[1:04:55] because I put so many models in there

[1:04:58] for testing but I'll show you how to

[1:05:00] find it real quick in vtube studio if

[1:05:03] you ever want to find data folders you

[1:05:07] just double click click on this gear

[1:05:10] icon and then if

[1:05:14] I scroll a little bit it's open data

[1:05:18] folder right here and then you'll be

[1:05:20] able to find the live 2D model folder

[1:05:22] where you will put your Panda uh folder

[1:05:25] that you just made go ahead and get vtu

[1:05:29] Studio up if you had it up and running

[1:05:31] before you'll have to restart it now

[1:05:33] that you have a new model on hand go

[1:05:36] ahead and click on change VTS model go

[1:05:39] until you find the Panda

[1:05:41] [Music]

[1:05:42] one all right if you have the option to

[1:05:45] auto set up go ahead and click Auto set

[1:05:48] up and B

[1:05:51] [Music]

[1:05:56] there you have it here is the model you

[1:06:00] just rigged if it is your first time

[1:06:02] exporting a model to vtube Studio it's

[1:06:04] likely going to ask you for a webcam to

[1:06:07] set up or a phone for tracking but if

[1:06:10] you have set up models to vtu Studio

[1:06:12] before you may probably get the uh Auto

[1:06:17] setup feature and here is your

[1:06:20] Panda yippee I hope you have fun

[1:06:24] enjoying your new mascot this is free to

[1:06:27] use so if you would like to use it on

[1:06:29] your streams show people the amazing

[1:06:32] first rig you've done feel free to go

[1:06:34] ahead and do so I hope this tutorial was

[1:06:37] helpful I hope it gave you confidence in

[1:06:40] rigging at least the basics and showing

[1:06:43] you around the live 2D cubism

[1:06:47] application if you enjoyed this tutorial

[1:06:50] please subscribe leave a like comment

[1:06:54] all of that good stuff this did take a

[1:06:56] while to put together so I would really

[1:06:58] really appreciate that and I hope you

[1:07:01] have fun rigging and making V tubing

[1:07:04] projects in your future bye for now

[1:07:11] [Music]

[1:07:25] oh

[1:07:29] [Music]