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Hazlenut 3d 🏳️‍⚧️ 🎃
@hazlek.bsky.social
She/Her | Queer | 3d Artist

I make cool furry art using the free open-source donut-making software

Other Sites: https://linktr.ee/hazlenut_3d
Automatic weights themselves don't do it for me either. I like to use it as a base and go in after applying them and edit them

The reason I made that post was because my topology used to be a lot worse, and the automatic weights would be terrible, so it was easier to do them from scratch lol
October 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The cons seemed to outweigh the pros to me when I started, which kept me away from using it. Now that I know a good bit more about rigs, I think I'd rather use it.

Though, I'm going to watch some videos to learn more about how the addon works before doing anything
August 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
For those who don't know, rigify is an addon built into blender that allows you to make a very functional rig in just the click of a button. It is quite customisable, which I didn't know beforehand, so I'm gonna learn how that works
August 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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All-in-all, blender is definitely a difficult software to learn, but with enough well-targeted practice, you'll know how to do what you want to do quite quickly!
August 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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While tutorials are great, they can’t teach you everything. Once you have a general grasp of how everything works, try experimenting on your own with tutorials as more of a backup.
August 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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If you don’t know anything beyond the basics though, I would watch just general tutorials of things you find cool. They’ll help you get to know the program and get comfortable with it. There are a few, more basic, character modelling tutorials as well, in case you wanted to just focus on that.
August 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I never finished it personally, as my file got corrupted, but it really helped me learn the process of character modelling. It’s been a year and a half since I watched it, but I don’t remember it being too hard to follow.
August 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I absolutely do have advice for learning blender!

The donut tutorial is great, but it really only teaches you how to use blender. If you already know a little bit about blender, I recommend the "Bran Sculpts" Zelda tutorial.
August 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Because automatic weights actually work on this model, I can spend a LOT more time making the rig as ideal for animation as I can

Unfortunately, I'm going to be away from my PC for a week, so it'll take a bit before this is finished
August 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM