How to make a Minecraft rig in Blender? Learn about the principles of 3D modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing and rigging in Blender as we make a Minecraft rig and learn to use and modify templates!
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Intro: (0:00)
Building a rig: (2:02)
Mental Breakdown: (36:09)
Using a template: (37:02)
Outro: (46:30)
God i feel stupid.. i just noticed (thanks to someone pointing it out) 360° = 6.something radiants (2pi, or "tau") I had no idea what i was doing in that part, or in editing, explaining that Its been a while since i last had math class...
What is this part for?
I explained the math behind the modifier wrong. If someone wants to use it for other cases, it wont work - so i explained it in the comment and pinned it, so its more visible
Am having problems with the skin,at the start the skin I a little diferent some of the parts of the skin a daunloded look a little different ,where did you downloaded your skin?
I used an old skin layout. Yours will look square But that doesnt change the fact that you need to line up the UVs to the bodyparts of the mesh. Same process
Where did you find the old layout?
LIGHTING, I NEED LIGHTING. I will hold 657 minecraft villagers hostage until you do it. You have been warned
Can you mutate them too? Also make the Universal Traveller with one of the villagers in minecraft
@@Official_LindertechProductions copy that
Nice video and thanks for recommending my rig! Just a small suggestion. For hair you can turn on the "hair collection" and use the first mesh above the head to extrude the hair (delete the transparent faces first), then translate them down on the z axes (z 2.8 is the correct value). On the head mesh below you can then change the uvs so that it will only display the skin if you already have an extruded mesh of the hair. I hope it helps!
Ah, i'm just now seeing this Wasn't aware of that, but I'm pinning the comment, so it's more visible I recommended the rig, because it proved to be great - It was my main character rig/model for a cover song I did for PewDiePie's "Mine All Day", so your rig got a bit of marketing there as well :)
Know what's cool? I'm animating a zombie walk cycle inspired by SharpWind and the notification popped up when I opened the project 💯
Love your work SharpWind, you really inspired and I've learnt a lot from you and I'm still learning. Fan Love💯🙌
thanks for explaing this in so much of details
Hats off to your hard work
Thanks man, this is really helpful
I love this tutorial! Thank u so much for making it^^💯
excellent workmanship as always👌
Good job! I missed the old days when you made Minecraft videos. This video made me know not leave your channel, because it will grow as you go. I love ALL your content. Keep dreaming about your future and it'll eventually lead you to success.
THANK YOU
Thank you so much 😁
oh thank you very much for it!
HELL YES !!
I will say for anyone looking for minecraft rigs for blender there's many that already exist with their own ups and downs. Thomas's rig is nice, BPS's rig is simple, I've even released a rig (though not as clean does have more features than most) but even then there's so many, But also I do understand the idea of wanting a tutorial as when I started I couldn't do anything and didn't understand half of what I know now and I still have a lot to learn mostly for non mc rigs.
new sharpwind video lets go
you are good teacher like teaching and make us enjoy it
tHIS IS GOOD MY IDOL
Love the vid
This is what a private video shoot looks like. And we know what pitfalls await us, unlike the video "Do it and it's done", but it's not clear how to work further yourself
Yay! Stop Existence🥲👍
Pls make a tutorial on how to make vehicle , items and then put it into blender minecraft for example gun ,cars ,instrument and more! . pls make tutorial about this
I can't watch these videos... This guy is just too adorable. I just can't....
I think you should make a tutorial about how to make VFX effects in blender. Similar to your mine-imator video you made a while ago. You should include effects like fire effects, particles, Sci-Fi blaster, lightning, Minecraft enchantments (Advanced enchantments) and whatever you think we should know. I love your videos and keep up the good work. I can't wait to see the next video. Stay Sharp.
Problem with those is that they are far more complex than MI ones
hey thanks for making this i have no idea how to use blender
Can You Pls Create A Whole Tutorial Series for Animating Minecraft!
finaly i can learn Blender though i need face rigs i need to know especially i want my anime style that i made in cinema4d
Ayy!!! that was my comment, thank u sharp!!
35:50 Need a slight bend on the armature's knee joint lol And a big fat *thank you* for explaining the Thomas rig!!
I tried during the troubleshoot Same thing...
@@SharpWind This does seem to be the issue. It seems doesn't know how to bend if it has a pole target but the bones are also perfectly straight; having tested it.
But i've changed the angle of the bones during the troubleshooting and got the same result While the elbow rig i made a day prior worked while being completely straight 🤔
love ya
非常好，谢谢
good
Could you possibly make a tutorial on how to properly make and use special effects. Such as explosions, fire, anything magic, even just leaving scratches or footprints on the ground. I would really like to know how to make these in blender
Most of those boil down to particle spawners and smoke simulations, which can be pretty slow to run But i could jump into those if you want
@@SharpWind sounds great!
2D Animation but it's in Blondar! Boi!
Well I first need to finish my old project to go into blender
Sharp wind can you do a blender minecraft walk cycle with the rig
Can you show us your standard procedure when doing a simple blender animation, like how do you setup stuff, how do you clean up, and how is your animation process, maybe you can animate a running cycle with something
i did some of that in the previous video - basically explaining the process (how to keyframe, setup the scene, lights, etc.) it's basically that, but scaled up
@@SharpWind I see, I will definitely check it out, also, just want to say, so happy to see you still making content, let alone different contents, you are underrated
I figured if I wanna bring SYSTM and collabs back, I gotta get my audience on the same level, or else I'll be looking at Mine Imator submissions for the rest of my life :P
@@SharpWind yeah man, even though Mine imator is the greatest most amazing animation software in existence, at some point, we gotta branch out to more complex stuff. Keep on creating sharp, I myself am trying to move on from mine imator, but I'm in a very toxic relationship with it :()
@@SharpWind question, if say some people needed a dumbed down version of the original video where could we find one that explains it more simpler?
The reason the IK leg didn't work is because the chain was completely straight, so the inverse kinematics basically didn't have a direction to bend towards, causing it to not bend at all.
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Welcome back, mate Always been here (even though it takes a while between my uploads nowadays - its a busy life)
You can actually get around issue with the 120 degree on the leg bend by having the second shape key's "Relative To" field set to the "Leg Bend" shape key as opposed to the "Basis". The only thing is I'm not sure how to set up the driver to make it activate the 2nd shape key after the 90 degree mark.
Thats actually a good piece of advice, didn't know that was a thing Im sure you can find an operation to just offset the effect to start at 90°, thats the least concerning Thanks!
Pls More blender tutorial 😌
U Should Watch Dinokonee's Rig Tutorial! I Learned A Lot From Him!
Umm it's head on top and tail on bottom for the bones, btw great video
Sharp The next, make nice evee lighting world minecraft in blender plsss
Can you make a tutorial on sets and lightning
26:30 I've been staring for what feels like years but I cannot find Adam Driver hiding in my blender menu
Shhh, he's my friend!
can you make a video about texture painting a Minecraft dude or did you already do that because honestly this is only the first video I watched for your channel
The stretching I think is because you did cube projection selection in unwarp menu, I've never seen it and I have not done the projection unwraps. 10:00 The vertex snapping links to vertex f the uv, there is a setting to snap to pixels somewhere, I don't remember where off the tp of my head, to snap to the image.
Cube projection should work if the scale is applied - the uvs got stretched when i applied the texture. I think its the 1x0.5 uv scale that stretched it
please make tutorial on how to use bsl like shader in blender
By the way sharp for ik to work the leg should be slightly Bent. But good video overall
If it still doesn't work that is a stubborn bone
Someone else commented, i tried that during the troubleshoot, same result
Hi! Great tutorial! What steve download did you use for 10:15? I’m trying to find one because mine doesn’t fit.
37:23 ngl, when I was still a noobie beginner in blender testing out minecraft animations in blender. It would always look very weird to me that every time I’d move the mouth the textures scale with it, but I did enjoy the rig pretty much just the mouth kept me off.
I personally love it, because it looks more realistic (since it displaces the skin, like in real life) but it sounds like you prefer the alpha glitch technique more - perhaps there's a way to recreate it in blender 🤔
@@SharpWind there is a way and it's basically using a uv warp modifier. basically this modifier allows you to control or warp a texture using another object. a common technique is to have an empty as the uv warp target and move it around until the texture fits and then parent that to the rig to keep it in place this will keep the texture looking the same at all times while allowing mesh deformations. or this is just 1 way I did it there could be others.
Yeah, i know I just like the deforms
You did the clickbait very well, can you make a video of how you did the render? I want to see minecraft content, I'm trying to make animations
Clickbait ?
36:09 You could probably fix the Problem with just moving the knee a bit forward
Tried during troubleshoot, didnt work Altho, two comments mentioned that it worked for them Weird
is there going to be a mine imator phase 2 vid? actually nvm.
We need tutorial how to rig simplified model (without knees and elbows) with solid body :OOOO
Just dont add the second part of the bone and weight-paint the entire bodypart. No drivers, no math, just a skeleton and weight paint
YOOOOOO You beard grown to much XD Jknskwjkw i cant wait to see more tutorial on blender
I love the fact that someone noticed lmao I did movember, this was just after shaving it
@@SharpWind ah i see also it is very noticeable but people probably are more focus on the tutorial while i just notice on-
This was a great tutorial though oneday i probably checked out blender if i get a buffy pc
here's the neat part - blender is pretty optimized, so it works on weaker PCs :)
here's the thing, Blender has been doing a lot of optimization, so it runs pretty smooth you might want to give it another go
suggestion : make a nanotech iron man traansformation toturial
Hello can you make a part 2 of this video explaining how to animate using this rig?
Go for it Supply a link to this video if you must But generally, i dont care, aa long as you teach people stuff, i'm okay with it
@@SharpWind umm im asking if YOU can make a part 2 lol
Lol, misread. Generally, the animation process is pretty simple - make keyframes for bodyparts at individual timestamps. I have plenty of tutorial on animation itself (movements and physics), and although they are made in Mine Imator, they translate really well to Blender Perhaps step #1 wouls be to take a look at those, it's a really similar process
@@SharpWind 🫡😁
Alright Actually useful and actually good I subbed back But you know im here bot for the tutorials UPD: you may want to separate tutorial by parts in description: modelling/uv/etc
Thanks for the Tutor! It's a nice introduction to intimidating blender UI (figures). I want to ask something, (may a bit rude, sorry in advance) as someone who suffer with blender render time, how much impact would be on my performance, if my Pc/Laptop are under-minimal requirement? (especially CPU & GPU)
Depends entirely on your hardware. Laptops are known to perform worse, but thanks to Cycles's optimizations in update 3.0 and the AI denoising, which requires you to render less samples, it should be much faster
@@SharpWind When you done the "unpleasant" project, what's your CPU and GPU had, and how much your estimated time render, if you don't mind answering?
For my "worst animation project ever", i was using Maya and had the old PC (intel core i7, gtx970, 8gb ram), took me 6min per frame (arnold renderer is slower and i couldnt use denoising bc it didnt work for some reason) The image for this thumbnail was made in blender on my "new" pc (RTX3060, AMD ryzen 5x-5600, 16gb ram) + denoising, i got a pretty good result in 5 seconds, but i decided to render 1024 samples, so it took around 12 seconds for the whole thing Blender is good :)
@@SharpWind okay, thanks for your answer! I've captured the gist of the 'minimal' requirement of blender.
rendering tips? i mean like can you explain how to like do natural lighting and all like you made a tutorial on rim lights in MI but blender this time 😁😁
A short episode on lighting, I like it Blender On The Go!
@@SharpWind cool!!
Now how to make lighting like in cinema 4d
sharpwind having shape keys bugging flashback be like
i STILL dont know what i did wrong
how to you add closest to flat textures
Poggers
Is it possible to change the color of the eyebrows and how?
The IK issue is probably cus u did not bend the leg bones. If the leg bones go verttically down, ppl say that it wont work. Last time I has this issue too when rigging The Figure.
Hey SharpWind Is There Anyway You Can Show Me How To Port Blender Models Into Mine-Imator Or ModelBench
What version is this
i know it's better to use an already made rig , i'm new to blender but i would prefer to make my own rig, 1 thing how do you make the eyes like that of the rig that Thomas made?, i would love a full tutorial for your personal rig to make one similiar to the one that Thomas made ps. sorry for bad english :3
A full rig tutorial would definitely both take ages to complete, as well as be very long - the concepts of rigging are the same, as if you were rigging anything else For the eyes, i'd make a bone, turn off deform and disconnect it, as well as make it display as a square wireframe or something Position it in front of the eyes (in edit mode) and add position constraints, so it cant move outaide the bounds Then i'd simply use the transform constrain on the eyes and mess with the values until it looks good
Could i make a second layer?
Can we get into more advanced modeling? Let's say... some building like Colosseum 🤔
Yo sharp, could you do a tutorial on how to do custom mobs in blender? you did the same tutorial for mine-imator and blockbench a while ago, i'm mostly using mine-imator and trying to move to blender, but i realy want to use custom mobs for it including some in mods.
Build the shapes, UV unwrap them, add bones, weight paint, add shape keys where necessary and then just animate those bones Its the same process as i've done here, except you're making different shapes
@@SharpWind Okay ty!!
why is the face a solid color?
I can't use blender because my brain can't handle the complicated settings, but I will use Maya soon. So can you make a tutorial to make a Minecraft rig in Maya, that will be great No pressure 👍 (Great tutorial btw!)
Oh god no, virtnam flashbacks... I graduated in maya and i hate it with the bottom of my heart, never touching that again Its buggy, UI is awful and outdated, plus they cancelled all the licenses, so it's gella expensive. I'd prefer blender any day
@@SharpWind oh sorry about that, I didn't know you really hate Maya. Well thanks for letting me know, I will still use mine imator for now (Maybe someday I'll use blender if I know all the complicated settings!)
Thats fine, to each their own - even if you end up using maya I just wanted to state my reason why i'm not doing it :p
How to make blood effects
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I'm not seeing a lot of what you see in edit mode and also I have no clue what I did but now my extrudes are like bending or rounding when I extrude and they weren't before and I'm so lost XD
Hello enjoyed your raging in rigging but hopefully in the future you can make a roblox rigging tutorial (you don't have to)
plase make how to make minecraft blander steve
So long but still having problem with your mic How to make VFX or power effect I seen in a lot minecraft animation? can you make video for it?
@SharpWind I'm trying to rig an Endersent model (from Minecraft Dungeons) and have a question. Each shape is its own part and won't be bending. Would I set up the armature in a similar way to a player model but without the loop cuts? I also forgot where the weight paint option is.
Thats right Weigh paint is in the top left corner or press Ctrl + Tab to open the pie chart
@@SharpWind Ok, thanks so much.
what is the link to the steve skin? I dont have the same as you thanks
Thats my own skin If you're referring to the red shirt steve, that comes with the thomas rig Steve skin i used for the tutorial part was the steve skin found in minecraft files (or you can get it online)
Can you make bosses for minecraft with blender? I have that doubt😅
you can literally make anything you can think of in Blender
so the mcprep addon skips the whole modeling, uv editing parts of it, rigging, and shading part
Do you have the download for that skin png file?
Im still having trouble fixing the character problem, the textures are rounded and not flat ?
You missed a step with image interpolation Change the "linear" into none
Hey SharpWind is it Possible to make a 1 Hour long animation in blender ?
I mean, technically you can make it as long as you want, you're just gonna wait for a long time for it to render (and the project will lagg a lot when you add tons of stuff in)
Don't know if you know this but Mineimator has a huge update. Would you make a path tutorial?
he knows everything but i don't think he's going back to MI also you can join his discord and ask there, there are lots of people that can help you :)
@@DarkSoulWish 🤯
13:53 *they're gonna know*
hey, how do I make it not curved? I've tried setting values but it doesn't work, not even nearly
make what not curved? there's a lot of things said in the video...
@@SharpWind when making the second layer like stuff
oh and I also have tried making a 3d face, but it for some reason makes the parts above the eyes have the same color as the eyes even not being on the same UV place
It curves them, because it's scaling on the normals of the faces - i've shown how to fix that in the video (scaling individual sides to 0 on their respectful axis) Eyebrows are done in a different way - i haven't really looked into it, but you could always just change their material or do custom UVs, etc.
@@SharpWind oh, I haven't noticed you've pressed "S" before pressing "Y" to scale it down, I'm new to 3d moddeling and this is kinda confusing me. But as I figured it out now, I guess everythings fine
How do you add the overlay skin that goes over the base skin in blender? (Note: I use skindex to create my Minecraft skins. I add detail to the base skin to make it have a little dimension to it (which is the overlay feature)
The thomas rig has a "secondary layer" option in the star icon In my video, i just chose to extrude them manually instead, because i think it looks nicer
@@SharpWind Thank you! I'll it give a shot!
how do you isolate
Forward slash on numpad
Do a more advanced video on blender nodes, I’ve been using blender for a year on and off and they still confuse me a bit
Any example on what to do with them? what are we creating? 🤔
@@SharpWindgame/general elemental effects if you’re into that?
that sounds like particle/smoke simulations, not nodes but yeah, i dig that, love fantasy
@@SharpWind nah there are some neat effects you can make with planes and nodes that I don't really see people do much of cuz they're mostly NPR. But there's also geometry nodes you could tap into if you know how they work. Then when 3.5 comes out there's like particle geometry nodes or something.
@@SephticMI oh trust me, I know. The particle method can be a little bit limiting and taxing if you're using cycles (because of the transmission bounces required to render transparent planes, if you're using many. if you're using less, you're basically relying on animated textures, which is just work done in a different software - the math for doing it with nodes can be hell tho) Geo nodes are amazing, i love them, they make everything easier, procedural and flexible, and the 3.5 update has me excited every time i see anything about the latest Blender conference. It keeps getting better!
its very helpfull,thanks..but i dont know why when i open UV Editor and choose selected cube and in UV Editor is not appear, can you explain?
You need to be in edit mode (press Tab) And it helps if you click the icon with 2 arrows on top - that way you'll always see the entire UV setup, and whatever you select in either view will get selected in both
@@SharpWind Thank you!! did you know how to make the hair or all of them looks realistic, i meant in order to the hair is not stick to the head..?
@@Just_RK add a particle simulation, set it to hair and paint a weigth map as to where they spawn (you'll need more subdivisions on the head, as opposed to just having 8 vertices) Look up a general hair tutorial, they'll explain how it works
@@SharpWind when in weight pain, i can't select the bone even i've holding the CTRL and click on it
@@Just_RK when entering weight paint mode, select both the skeleton and the mesh, it should work then
how to import worlds and different dimension in blender
Watch my previous video
I edited my arms and body for the 3D layers effect. It worked, however, when I try to do it for the head, when I move any faces in the UV editor, the texture on the face doesn't change at all (which didn't happen when I did it for the arms: it changed accordingly instantly to what i moved it to) and I don't know how to make it work. Could you help me please? It works on your video.
The face is done strangely.. try removing the "UV Project" modifier from the rig - i found it works just fine without it, idk why it's there tbh
@@SharpWind I removed it on all objects of the rig, but it only made some pixels in diagonal, didn't fix my problem. :(
Strange, it's been a while since i've used the rig, i'm not quite sure how it operates anymore I know the face is a separate object, so maybe you're moving the UVs of the wrong object? The face is a flat plane, separate from the head
@@SharpWind I didn't find a way to fix this, but I checked the head layers, there's one normal head layer and one second head layer, I extruded the first layer for the hairs, and I'll do the second for the glasses of my skin. The layers moves accordingly to the rig's head so I think that's why they're here. Thanks for responding so fast (:
at around 7:30 my object doesn't appear highlighted orange in edit mode and doesn't appear on the left do you know how to fix this?
Either select all the faces, so they appear on the UV editor Or click on the double-arrow icon on the top left in the UV editor - that will link tge selection between the mesh and UVs, hence it will display all the faces
@@SharpWind tysm appreciate the help!