{"id":107,"date":"2026-02-07T22:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/?p=107"},"modified":"2026-03-05T18:29:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:29:45","slug":"mantis-rigging-nodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Mantis Rigging Nodes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mantis Rigging Nodes is a revolutionary new way to build rigs. It is a node-based, declarative rigging system that allows the user to build reusable rigging components and compose them into a full rig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click the video below to view the Mantis Rigging Nodes reel and see the work of many Mantis users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/mantis_reel.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below is the talk I gave at BCON 2025, where I presented Mantis and demonstrated the process of creating an IK-FK switching limb component. The component can be reused for any rig by sharing the node graph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rigging With Nodes Changes Everything! \u2014 Blender Conference 2025\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XS8gW_pBiBs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is a playlist of my videos about Mantis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mantis\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLjbUw5gP_6WH9Msoq4xiFq8m5eZa0eCfv\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TODO: enumerate the features of Mantis in bite-sized chunks&#8230;. groups, schema, etc. etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TODO: gumroad page link<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mantis Rigging Nodes is a revolutionary new way to build rigs. It is a node-based, declarative rigging system that allows the user to build reusable rigging components and compose them into a full rig. Click the video below to view the Mantis Rigging Nodes reel and see the work of many Mantis users. Below is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,18,17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blender","category-python","category-rigging","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}