Rigging and Animating a Magica Voxel Character [Blender Tutorial]

The procedure and techniques I used to animate Magica Voxel characters in Blender. You can see full applications in the following two videos: Santa's Lo-Fi Hip Hop Band: https://youtu.be/4RCzU44DPtU Mini Adventure in Voxel Worlds: https://youtu.be/69-Dq5pleNI

⏱️ Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:27 Exporting from Magica Voxel 1:00 How Magica Voxel colours your model 1:50 Turning off colour smoothing in the material 2:20 Separating and preparing the model 4:20 Merging/welding vertices 5:25 Cleaning up the topology - tools and examples 9:23 Rigging the model - the hard way 9:38 Creating the armature 12:10 Binding the armature to the model 12:45 Adding vertex groups 14:30 Rigging the model - the easy way 15:49 Adding eyes and animating the mouth - augmenting the armature with new bones 20:34 Attaching the eyes to the head bone 22:00 Animating the model 24:00 Looping the animations 25:11 Conclusion

📻 Addendum: Of course, the example model I have is not ideal for rigging. You'll want to T-pose your models.

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• Lofi Records - Cozy Winter
• Provided by Lofi Girl
• Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tV5LEBDs7w
• Listen: https://open.spotify.com/album/2cnaJP2xvzWXH3CNCthGWP

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