AutoRig

Auto Rig is a new and unique automatic rig for Blender, created by Samuel Bourland. Samuel has worked as a character TD at Walt Disney Animation.

In the creator’s words:

This rig grew out of a desire to streamline the process between sculpting and animating. Relegating the rigging process to a button and some touch up for details. It has robust face rig inspired by the rigs I used and created at Disney and AnimSchool. The body rig is solid and seems to work fairly well for a variety of body shapes.

While other auto-riggers aim to allow the user to rig “any character”, this addon comes with a pre-existing and pre-rigged human character mesh.

To modify the rig, you need to tweak the character mesh. The addon will automatically update the rig to match the new proportions of the character.

The addon is free and comes in the form of a Blend file. Instructions for its usage are included inside the file.