Taking a quick moment with this tutorial to give a preview and explanation for a totally awesome new feature in Blender 2.49, which should be released soon. There is a release candidate for Blender 2.49 available on blender.org, so you’ll have to download that to follow along with this tutorial. The feature I’m talking about is Etch-a-ton, which allows sketch-based rigging. It’s an incredibly powerful tool that’s certain to help speed up and simplify the process of rigging in Blender. This tutorial walks you through the basics of how to use it. Of course, there’s a lot more to this tool that what I can show in 10 minutes, but this should plenty to get you started. As with before, you can download this tutorial directly to your computer and it has also been uploaded to YouTube and Vimeo. Have fun!
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This is the best Blender-tutorial-video I’v ever seen. I’m from germany, unerstand all, and it helped me to create my moddels. Thans!
is blender 2.48 much more different than blender 2.49 or 2.5 alpha? they seem to be coming up with newer versions quicker than i can learn the system.
Blender 2.48 and Blender 2.49 are close cousins. The 2.5 series of Blender is a pretty dramatic overhaul of Blender’s user interface, but it’s still heavily under development and not recommended for production use. That said, when Blender 2.5 becomes production-ready, although there will be some changes, it will still taste very much like Blender.
new to blender saw your bone rigging vid but i dont know where to download…the link is broken can u help me out?
actually im sure i have it i have version 2.49b but when i press the p hotkey to enter bone sketching my mouse stops working in the blender screen.
Hey chef,
The file should be downloadable. Try right-clicking it and choosing Save As from the menu that appears.
Regarding your issue pressing P, you need to be in Edit mode on the armature for that to work. If you’re in Object mode, pressing P enables Blender’s integrated game engine. Hope that helps! Have fun!