Tutorial: Making an Animated Robot in Blender
Let's create a light bulb robot from start to finish using only free assets! We'll use kitbashing to add mechanical parts to an existing armature, and then use a free addon to batch parent all the parts with one click.
New Patreon Tier:
https://www.patreon.com/polyfjord
The Mechanical Creature Kit:
https://www.blendermarket.com/products/mechanical-creature-kit
Light Bulb model on Poly Haven:
https://polyhaven.com/a/lightbulb_01
Blender Addon - Parent to Nearest Bone by g3ntile:
https://github.com/g3ntile/parentToNearestBone
Rokoko Motion Library:
https://www.rokoko.com/
Software used:
https://www.blender.org/
My second channel: @Polyfjord2
Chapters:
00:00 What we'll be creating
00:19 Importing motion capture
01:36 Importing the Mechanical Creature Kit
02:56 Kitbashing the legs
04:20 Kitbashing and modeling the arms
06:03 Adding core body parts
10:32 Adding the head
11:17 Kitbashing screws
12:17 Mirroring and final modeling tweaks
12:59 Batch parenting parts to armature
14:51 Attaching the torso using constraints
16:15 Material setup
17:53 Final result
18:09 Extended version + new Patreon Tier
18:43 Thanks for watching!
#motioncapture #b3d #robot
Polyfjord
My name is Asbjørn, I'm a digital artist from Norway. My pipeline currently consist primarily of Blender, DaVinci Resolve and Soundly, and I enjoy exploring workflows that use open source, free and/or freemium software. Since the summer of 2021 I've been...