Blender Intermediate Rigging - Bendy Bone Neck Rig

This video is for those who already have a grasp of rigging basics and want to learn how to manipulate Bendy Bones and do some simple rig layering.

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Original mesh is from David OReilly's Everything project and can be downloaded here: http://www.davidoreilly.com/library
To follow along with the tutorial you can grab the same file I am using in the video here: https://gumroad.com/l/cranerigstart

The finished rig can be downloaded here: https://gumroad.com/l/cranerig

Intro animation was rendered in the Unreal Engine
Environment is the POLYGON - Town Pack by Synty Studios


00:00 Intro
00:15 Activate Bendy Bones
00:35 Bendy Bone Handles
02:05 Full Neck Bone Setup
03:19 Neck Follow Setup
04:35 Chest and Head Controls
05:32 Dependency Cycle
05:52 Ease In/Out Demonstration
06:43 Neck Length Reference
07:10 The Driver
10:45 Cleanup
11:14 Closing Words

Music is from Youtube's Audio Library:
Warm Water - Underbelly
Sunshower - LATASHÁ
Howling - Gunnar Olsen