: Avoiding the "bone" layer entirely in certain mechanical setups. Greater Flexibility
The next time you sit down to animate a machine, a gadget, or a simple creature limb, stop. Do not press Shift+A and click "Armature." Click "Empty." Stack a few constraints. Move your target. Death To The Armatures Constraintbased Rigging In Blender
Add a Mesh Deform modifier to your robot arm object. : Avoiding the "bone" layer entirely in certain
Let us declare a new workflow:
: Sometimes called "armatureless rigging," this relies on the relationship between objects and their constraints to drive motion, rather than a skeletal structure influencing a mesh. University of Benghazi Practical Applications Mechanical Modeling or a simple creature limb