AccuRIG: A free tool for Fast and Easy Character Rigging

AccuRIG is a free revolutionary application developed by Reallusion to make character rigging quick and easy. With its focus on simplicity and automation, AccuRIG is able to reduce production effort for character artists, allowing them to focus on model design. By using AccuRIG, character artists can achieve accurate and superior rigging results in just five simple steps, regardless of whether their models are in A/T/scan poses, or have low/high/multiple meshes. It is optimized for all joints, from shoulder, elbow, and knee, to fingers.

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Accurate Rigging with 3D Scanned People

AccuRIG is highly optimized for A-poses and scan poses, and is able to recognize 3D scanned humans with varying palm facing directions and raised arm angles. This means that users can achieve accurate rigging results for all kinds of characters, without the need for tedious manual adjustments. Additionally, AccuRIG's automatic analysis of joints and correction of axis means that studios can save time and labor costs by avoiding the repetitive and manual rigging process.

Export to Animation-Ready Formats

One of the key features of AccuRIG is its compatibility with all major 3D tools. This means that users can easily export their rigged characters to their preferred 3D software, allowing them to seamlessly integrate AccuRIG into their existing workflows. Alternatively, users can upload their rigged characters directly to ActorCore, where they can access a vast library of production-ready animations for use in games, films and more.

Animate Digital Sculptures

Another key advantage of AccuRIG is its ability to convert un-rigged statues into animation-ready characters. This makes it perfect for showcasing concept art and digital sculptures made with ZBrush and Blender, allowing users to speed up the sculpting-to-animation process and add value and versatility to their characters.

Flexible Joint Refinement

With AccuRIG's manual joint definition and customization options, users can tailor their rigging to match models with different characteristics, ensuring that the skin-weight is optimized for all joints, from shoulders and elbows to detailed finger joints.

Pose Offset

One of the standout features of AccuRIG is its Pose Offset tool, which is designed to correct posture problems such as arm penetration or leg distance when applying animation data to characters with different body scales. This allows users to create more realistic and lifelike animations, as well as generating stylized performances for cartoonish figures. Additionally, the offset results can be uploaded to ActorCore and used to download customized animations that have been retargeted to the user's rigged characters.

Whats new in AccuRIG 1.1

AccuRIG is also compatible with Character Creator (CC4.1), which includes built-in AccuRIG technology. This means that not only can CC4.1 auto-rig humanoid models, it also has all the critical manual editing features necessary to deal with complicated multi-mesh structures. Users can preserve hard surfaces from skin-rig items, refine skin weight for perfect skin binding results, and even choose bone complexities.

Overall, AccuRIG is a powerful and versatile tool that is sure to become an essential part of any character artist's workflow plus it's free. With its focus on automation and simplicity, AccuRIG is able to reduce production effort and improve the quality of rigged characters.

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