Clean Rigging With Blender’s Bendy Bones

Bendy Bones. A flighty name for an amazingly powerful rigging tool in Blender. Bendy Bones may just revolutionize the rigging pipeline, and hopefully extend further than Blender. The Bendy Bone system offers an easy way to segment or subdivide bones and brings a much more intuitive way to rig characters.

the best way to rig with Bendy Bones so your rig flexes and rotates properly with a minimum of effort

While it is still early days for the new bone system in Blender, it shows some incredible promise. Still, there are a few things that need to be ironed out. Sometimes you might find it difficult (depending on your workflow) to get a stable solve happening with the B-Bones.

If this is the case for you, then you might want to check out Jason Schleifer’s process for adding a Bendy Bones rig to your characters and models. Jason covers the best way to rig with the B-Bone system, so your rigs behave as expected.

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