From the course: Blender: Character Rigging with BlenRig

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Retargeting the body controls

Retargeting the body controls

- [Instructor] Now we need to adjust the blend rig armature to the character; however, I wanna make sure my character is the proper size first before I do that. So I'm gonna select this character and let's isolate it here on it's own layer and let's see how big this is. Now if I hit the N key to bring up the properties panel, the current size says 1.85 meters. However, I'm not quite believing that at this point in time. Let's make sure by creating a reference object that we can compare our character to. So what I'll do is I'll go to a new layer, and I'll press Shift + A and bring in a cube; and we know that this cube, this default cube, is two meters by two meters. Now I want my character to be about six feet, two inches; and I happen to know that that is 1.88 meters. So I'm gonna type in 1.88 meters, and there now my cube is exactly the height I want my character. I'll also type in .2 meters here in the X and in the Y, just to bring the size of that down just a bit; and then I'll go…

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