Cookie Flex Rig

Description

The Cookie Flex Rig was created by Nathan Vegdahl, Beorn Leonard, and Jonathan Williamson, based on an initial design by David Revoy. The rig is designed for maximum flexibility, with numerous controls for body shape, facial features and a small library of clothing and hairstyles. It’s intended to provide a great resource for learning and testing character animation in Blender.

Comments (98)

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the blend3 over 13 years ago

I have been wanting this! Thank you so much!!!!

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bisketashwin almost 13 years ago

Hay this is FK to IK swapping script you may need it http://www.blendswap.com/blends/view/66924

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PeeDee76 over 13 years ago

complicated rigs are usually the cause of an interested noob losing hope and thinking "ill never learn this, its too complicated for me", This rig looks like it will be the one that motivates the next nathan veghdal maybe??? who knows. thanks for sharing looks great and user friendly

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stendardo about 13 years ago

You should buy the DVD "Blender Animation Toolkit" by Beorn Leonard and Nathan Vegdahl. It tells you everything you need to know about using this rid in order to make an animation.

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MythicalMusic about 12 years ago

I found out about this blend from reading about that dvd :D, it looks really good

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PhilMacRae over 13 years ago

I love this! This was worth the anticipation.

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bisketashwin almost 13 years ago

Hay this is FK to IK swapping script you may need it http://www.blendswap.com/blends/view/66924

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windturbineupload over 12 years ago

so true

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sonny over 13 years ago

CG Cookie ROCKS! Thanks for this Nathan, Beorn, Jonathan, and David!

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chagas1983 over 13 years ago

Fantastic! No comments! Simply the best!

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bisketashwin almost 13 years ago

Hay this is FK to IK swapping script you may need it http://www.blendswap.com/blends/view/66924

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batwombat over 13 years ago

i would like it if there was a more in depth intuction manuel for this because i loaded it and could not figure out how the thing works

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freen over 13 years ago

The rig was created for the "Blender Animation Toolkit" series from CG Cookie: http://cgcookie.com/blender/2012/11/14/blender-training-character-animation-toolkit/

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saif18 over 13 years ago

Thanks. :D

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kevin_rocker_lake over 13 years ago

gold star!

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KETRO1979 over 13 years ago

CARA TO BEM PERDIDO MESMO

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ayim over 13 years ago

thanks!!! :) gold STAR!!

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salva over 13 years ago

Is an audio? I double click to open it and it opens up my transcription software....??? Help please

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freen about 13 years ago

It's a zipped up archive file, containing textures and a blend.

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quiestsun over 13 years ago

Thanks !!! A rig with a few face rigs ready to test; I got to give it a try!

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kofo over 13 years ago

Great works thanks

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bisketashwin almost 13 years ago

Hay this is FK to IK swapping script you may need it http://www.blendswap.com/blends/view/66924

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blenderslender67 over 13 years ago

thanks

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ILoveBlenderToolkit over 13 years ago

Great Blender Animation Toolkit, thank you very much! It looks interesting and fun.. Thanks for the Blender team because making the animation program! :) :) I LOVE BLENDER ANIMATION TOOLKIT!

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freen over 13 years ago

The idea is that the rig is flexible enough to make many characters, including the one in the image above. Check out the character variation controls (to the right of the main rig). There are some example characters in the pose library.

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wengzy over 13 years ago

yes! this is great, thanks

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DewinStarr about 13 years ago

This is like totally awesome. been waiting for sumdin like this. Now i just have to figure out how to work with and animate my items i made over on Sketchup 7.lol Any video tutorial suggestions please. ty.

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sdb7 about 13 years ago

faaaantastic!!!!

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bjh5589 about 13 years ago

This is a fantastic rig but, may I ask you a question? How can I append my character in another scene, ore use two characters in the same scene?

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pddring about 13 years ago

Brilliant-thank you!

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bisketashwin about 13 years ago

Thanks for great stuff. in ik fk switch over there is no option to swap pose

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bisketashwin about 13 years ago

http://www.blendswap.com/blends/view/66924 ik fk swap script

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freen about 13 years ago

Hi Ashwin, Thanks for that! We didn't get around to adding an IK/FK switch. I'm looking into you script now. Maybe we can incorporate it in a future version. Thanks again!

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cpmodeling about 13 years ago

You guys rock I can't imagine the big expensive 3D packages having a supporting community even close to what you guys and gals provide for blender. Thank You

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samuraidave1 about 13 years ago

Awesome super cool!!!! I love Blender CG cookie and the tutorials are very informative and well presented.

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Hammers about 13 years ago

Amazing flexibility in the character variations - Wow. IK FK switch will be great - this could be the goto rig for animation learning! I'd also love to see some clothes options that aren't quite so ... er... clingy on the girls' boobs. Not sure how you made these though. Shrinkwrap? Please keep up the fab work!

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bisketashwin almost 13 years ago

Hay this is FK to IK swapping script you may need it http://www.blendswap.com/blends/view/66924

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gulliverplus about 13 years ago

i tried to install on blender 2.66 and i go to install addon and not working... is it a bug whith my version?

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elwood almost 13 years ago

thanks

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pguide09 almost 13 years ago

...a very BIG Thank you !!!! :)

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oiseau almost 13 years ago

Thank You! I've been searching for this everywhere

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PassPose over 12 years ago

I can't seen to get this working in 2.8 (windows 64) any one else having this issue? Mesh loads but is collapsed on it self.

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AyoubM over 12 years ago

I guess its a bug in 2.68, I have the same problem (w32)

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PictorSomni over 12 years ago

It works, In the top bar of blender (just at the right hand side of the renderer list, it says "Autorun disabled..."), you have 2 buttons. If you click the first one ("Reload Trusted"), it will appears. ;)

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freen over 12 years ago

Yeah, this is to do with the new security measures in Blender. PictorSomni's comment is spot on. This rig uses a lot of python code, so it needs to be loaded as a "trusted" file.

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PassPose over 12 years ago

Thanks worked like a charm.

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s1n86d over 12 years ago

fantastic thanks

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mrichmond over 12 years ago

Hi guys, I've tried loading this on the most recent Blender releases for Mac 64 bit and Windows 32 Bit, this tool looks amazing and I would really appreciate some help getting this to load properly. Thanks!

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mrichmond over 12 years ago

Forgot to mention I am on a late 2011 MacBookPro with 16gb of ram and AMD graphics card.

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mrichmond over 12 years ago

"Reload trusted" Awesome!

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pianodavy over 12 years ago

Thanks, you guyz!

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funbob14 over 12 years ago

dude i love this because its so easy to learn thank soooo much!!!!

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Digitante over 12 years ago

Apparently, it does not work in Blender 2.68. I don't understand what's wrong with it. I have kind of a weird little wadded up ball of meshes and no character as such. It says "Tested in 2.67". You might need to check and see what's up in 2.68. I was confused and wondering what was going on, until I accidentally opened it in 2.63, and saw that there is supposed to be a sample character model there. Looking forward to learning this and trying it out -- seems like a great idea and contribution to the community. Thanks!

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petriffer about 12 years ago

Did an animation with this fantastic Rig. character Walkcycle Check it out on Youtube: http://youtu.be/50zVMGbN3do

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TheMachete almost 12 years ago

Is it me or is the download broken?

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Raphavok almost 12 years ago

This is really awesome! Thank you so much :) Btw, is it ok to use it commercially if attribution is given?

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YummyAnimations over 11 years ago

It Says you can't Use rig commercially (For TV ads) no Matter WHAT, so I don't Think so.

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YummyAnimations over 11 years ago

File Damaged... Can't Open :/

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topmybiz over 11 years ago

good job

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videospuger over 11 years ago

Thanks for sharing! Does this work with blender 2.72?

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GEHco over 11 years ago

Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to try this rig out :)

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antonvdh about 11 years ago

Anyone know why it is still possible to edit the cookie flex rig when linked into a new scene.

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TheMachete about 11 years ago

Maybe its script base that allows you to. So you can rename for instancing or duplication. Not fully sure though.

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TheMachete about 11 years ago

I guess I'll have to get the DVD or go to cgcookie to find out how to use the pose lib when the armature is linked. Clicking the MakeLocal doesn't work. Everything is still blocked out

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TheMachete about 11 years ago

Nvm. Link in actions and go into the action editor. Make the pose libraries local after that. The characters are awesome!

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LightTransmission almost 11 years ago

Thank you for this! I am new to Blender and I got the Animation Toolkit. I wanted to make a cat girl, so I used the rig to start and then I edited the model, removed the ears and reshaped them to cat ears and attached them higher on the head and some other stuff. The problem is that she only looks the way I wanted in Edit Mode. When I go to Object Mode, or when i render a picture, the changes doesn't show. Can anyone help me to make this work??

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IMValle almost 11 years ago

Thank you very much!

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Gari over 10 years ago

Спасибо!!!

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haniapik over 10 years ago

halo

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cgmex over 10 years ago

how can i learn to do a rig like this, i mean with the make human model, then adding clothes and props hair, etc, is that coming in the DVD? can this be the pipe line?: Send the Makehuman mesh to blender; rig it in blender and save it as blender file, Create a new character in Makehuman and export it to blender and save it as blender file, open the the first makehuman blend file, then apend the second character and place it in pose library (this i don't know how t do it), so on and so forth... the morphs can be applied to the first one only or to every single character? how about the hair, props , clothes, etc?. any help would be appreciate!!

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Xvidia101 about 10 years ago

Good job dude

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fufus almost 10 years ago

how much do i have to pay so i can use it in my project and sell???pls tell me..is there also a tutorial of how to create this from scratch??

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janmatys almost 10 years ago

U need only to leave credits to CG Cookie and U R set and ready to sell what U want I think (but to be sure PLZ write to CG Cookie). Anyone tried to convert/remade this to working with Blender 2.7x? I have 2.76 and 2:77 and after opening the file I only see some deformed mesh...

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fufus over 9 years ago

user pref..i think auto python check

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fikri221 over 9 years ago

if you allowing, Can I use your character rig for my animation project?

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jblock over 8 years ago

i have been making my own characters for a wile now but now i don't need to!!!

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jblock over 8 years ago

thank you so much

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18JSnyder about 8 years ago

This was really good. Thank you for this awesome rig

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18JSnyder about 8 years ago

Truly well done. Thank you very much

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bimalhessa over 7 years ago

This character is awesome. Lighting and the rig too is nice. Thanks for sharing. Thank you!!

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davaro over 6 years ago

I love this rig but have a problem, I can get the eyes rendered in eevee. Does anyone know how to fix that?

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Rafał Kania over 6 years ago

same problem. pls anybody help?

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Rafał Kania over 6 years ago

same problem. pls anybody help?

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ttrc over 6 years ago

Same problem, Eyes looking transparent in rendered image in evee. Please help

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Dippan poudel about 6 years ago

its not an exact solution but the way i use is do viewport rendering

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Dippan poudel over 5 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpXap0s3hUJxQbzmqemoagw/videos these guys have updated flex rig for latest blender,fixed several bugs and added more features to rig check them out

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Faris_1083723 over 6 years ago

Is this compatible with the version 2.80? Can i use it?

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JuanDiaz1974 over 6 years ago

I downloaded it but in version 2.81 is not working... well the rig controls do work but the character selector does not. :( and the script rig_ui_panels.py mentioned in the GC Cookie site does not appear.

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Dippan poudel over 5 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpXap0s3hUJxQbzmqemoagw/videos these guys have updated flex rig for latest blender,fixed several bugs and added more features to rig check them out

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Kesav anand over 5 years ago

Hey guys I have a problem I using 2.79 blender it doesn't render character's hair and eyebrows Any one can solve this problem please

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Dippan poudel over 5 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpXap0s3hUJxQbzmqemoagw/videos these guys have updated flex rig for latest blender,fixed several bugs and added more features to rig check them out

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edyace over 5 years ago

very nice

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A.C.E. Digital about 5 years ago

was this updated for 2.9 or was it dropped?

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ArijitChakravarty about 5 years ago

This is an amazing thing. You usally dont find a character creator like this sort for Cartoon based charactders very well formed characters with very good topology

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ArijitChakravarty about 5 years ago

This is an amazing thing. You usally dont find a character creator like this sort for Cartoon based charactders very well formed characters with very good topology

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zigzack001 almost 5 years ago

Does it work in the new blender version like 2.93 or 2.92?

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rollodaniel27 over 4 years ago

it works on blender 2.93 but can only be rendered properly in workbench engine. have bugs on eevee and cycles. like the hair and eyes . can someone pls help me. it just doesnt look good in workbench.

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gerardo moncada almost 4 years ago

Thank you very much!

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