by Blender Studio·Workflow
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Developed in-house by Blender Studio for its Open Movie productions, CloudRig has been downloaded over 95,000 times and holds a 5.0 average across 31 reviews in the Blender Extensions library.
CloudRig is a rig generation add-on for Blender, developed by Blender Studio for its Open Movies, starting with CoffeeRun in 2020. It creates helper bones, constraints, and drivers for you based on basic inputs, which are provided through a simple armature called a Metarig.
Alongside generation, CloudRig ships optional workflow enhancements such as various pie menus and improved operators. It works through component types including Chain: Toon, Chain: Layered, Shoulder, and Curve: IK, plus a Component Instance type that lets a bone chain act as if it shared another chain's component type and parameters, with optional mirroring.
The add-on is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later and is compatible with Blender 5.0, though it is listed as unsupported on version 6.0 and above. It requests permission to load widgets, metarigs, and preferences from disk, and to copy and paste Bone Collections between armatures.
CloudRig is best for blender artists building rigs from a Metarig and looking for rigging workflow helpers.
CloudRig is completely free to download and use.
CloudRig is compatible with Blender 5.0. It is listed as unsupported on Blender 6.0 and above, so if you are working in a newer release you should check the developer's page for updates before relying on it in production. The current build is version 2.2.24, last updated in May 2024. For the full list of earlier releases and their compatibility, the version history on the developer's page is the place to look.
CloudRig is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, and it is listed as free in this catalog. For current licensing terms, the developer's page is the best reference. The add-on was developed by Blender Studio for its Open Movie productions, beginning with CoffeeRun in 2020, and it remains available through the Blender Extensions library, where it holds a 5.0 average rating across 31 reviews.
CloudRig can be added by dragging and dropping it into Blender, or by downloading the add-on and installing it from disk. Once installed, it requests permission to load widgets, metarigs, and preferences from disk, and to copy and paste Bone Collections between armatures, so grant those permissions if you want the full set of features. The download is around 3.2 MB in size.
CloudRig works from a simple armature called a Metarig. You provide basic inputs through this armature, and CloudRig generates the helper bones, constraints, and drivers for you based on them. Alongside this generation process, it includes optional workflow enhancements such as various pie menus and improved operators. Recent versions also add component types, including a Component Instance type that lets a bone chain act as if it shared another chain's component type and parameters, with optional mirroring.
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