Paween Sarachan begins his workshop with a lesson that establishes how a well-designed naming convention is foundational for efficient rigging workflows. By implementing a structured, underscore-separated naming system with up to five index elements, rigging artists can write flexible Python scripts to automate repetitive tasks such as creating joint chains and controls. Paween's practical examples demonstrate how proper naming enables batch operations and dynamic object manipulation, ultimately saving significant time and reducing errors in the rigging process.

Duration: 16m 26s

This lesson establishes a professional control structure foundation that balances technical requirements with animator usability. By understanding the manual process first and then leveraging Python automation, rigging artists can learn how to efficiently create consistent, well-organized controls throughout a full-body rig. Paween's modular approach — with nested transform groups and the gimbal control layer — demonstrates industry-standard practices that provide animators with clean, predictable controls while giving rigging artists the flexibility needed for complex constraint setups and space switching.

Duration: 34m 13s

This lesson provides a comprehensive workflow for creating a production-ready spine rig with both artistic control and technical flexibility. The combination of stretchy and non-stretchy systems, properly weighted CV curve skinning, and the advanced twist solution creates a robust spine setup suitable for realistic quadruped animation. Paween's methodical approach to naming conventions and node organization ensures the rig remains maintainable and scalable for complex character rigs.

Duration: 41m 30s

This lesson presents a production-ready spine rig system that balances animator control with technical sophistication. The dual-direction IK setup with blendable stretch and anchor functions offers flexibility across a range of animation scenarios, from subtle breathing to extreme poses. By implementing proper global scaling and organizing controls hierarchically, the rig maintains stability across different use cases. Paween's demonstrated modular approach (with separate systems for primary controls, stretch functions, and secondary tangent controls) provides a robust foundation that will be extended in future lessons to include neck, head, and breathing-shape controls.

Duration: 47m 48s

This comprehensive rigging lesson demonstrates advanced constraint techniques for creating flexible spine, belly, and head controls. The key to Paween's innovation is the use of blended constraints rather than direct parent relationships to achieve natural deformation and volume preservation. The space-switching setup for the head also provides animators with essential local/world options while maintaining proper orientation relationships, completing the upper-body rigging foundation before moving on to leg setup in the next lesson.

Duration: 39m 28s

This comprehensive leg-rigging lesson demonstrates professional techniques for creating a production-ready character leg rig. Paween's multi-layered approach combines FK and IK systems with seamless blending, realistic deformation through aim joints, and intuitive animator controls, resulting in a versatile rig capable of both mechanical precision and organic movement. The hierarchical foot-roll system and pole-vector setup give animators the flexibility needed for a wide range of leg animations while maintaining anatomically correct behavior.

Duration: 42m 23s

This lesson provides a comprehensive workflow for creating a professional-grade leg rig with flexibility for animators. Paween's setup includes essential features like FK/IK switching, space switching, and stretchy IK with both automatic and manual controls. His demonstrated modular approach can be replicated for all character legs, with minor adjustments for anatomical differences, such as front-leg pull vector directions. This foundational leg setup prepares the rig for the next phase of development, which will cover scapula rigging.

Duration: 41m 32s

This lesson provides a comprehensive workflow for creating a production-ready scapula rig with advanced features commonly needed in quadruped character animation. The combination of auto-rotate and limb lock attributes gives animators flexible control over shoulder behavior, allowing the scapula to automatically follow leg movement when needed or maintain a grounded, realistic position during contact poses. Proper organization and troubleshooting of constraint hierarchies ensures the rig functions reliably across different animation scenarios.

Duration: 27m 5s

This lesson presents a professional-grade toe-rigging solution using the double FK structure technique, which elegantly solves the common problem of losing FK behavior when constraining controls to a moving hierarchy. By implementing this setup with organized grouping, custom attributes, and a main control system, animators can learn how to gain both detailed control over individual toes and convenient high-level controls for common toe movements. Once completed for one leg, this setup can be replicated across all legs to complete the character's full body rig.

Duration: 27m 28s

This lesson demonstrates advanced rigging techniques essential for creating production-ready character rigs. The combination of aim constraints for eyes, twist joint systems for natural limb deformation, and proper space switching provides animators with intuitive controls while maintaining realistic deformation. Paween's bug fix for the head's local space underscores the importance of separating translational and rotational data in constraint hierarchies, a crucial concept in professional rigging.

Duration: 34m

Paween's methodical skinning approach prioritizes organization and cleanliness by working progressively through the joint hierarchy while locking completed sections. By preventing weight spillage between non-adjacent joints and maintaining proper volume preservation through careful smoothing, this technique produces clean, predictable deformations. His workflow can be applied to any character and helps avoid common skinning issues that arise from working on multiple areas simultaneously.

Duration: 41m 16s