# Does Blender Rigify document any animation retargeting or humanoid normalisation, or only rig generation from a metarig?

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- categories: T07 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-23T13:06:03.795Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5MDWNCTYBD7M4ABRZKA8C4C

Rigify documents rig generation from predefined meta-rigs (scale 1 unit = 1 m; slight knee/elbow bends for direction) but no animation retargeting or humanoid normalisation; its only 'retarget' wording concerns driver rewiring.

Rigify documents rig generation from predefined meta-rigs (scale 1 unit = 1 m; slight knee/elbow bends for direction) but no animation retargeting or humanoid normalisation; its only 'retarget' wording concerns driver rewiring.

Curator qualifications: Documentation read 2026-10-22; no rigs retargeted. Bounded to the two manual pages read.

Limitations: Documentation read 2026-10-22; no rigs retargeted.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/addons/rigify/basics.html",
      "note": "Blender Manual: Rigify Basic Usage (live); Blender Manual: Rigify Creating Meta-rigs (live)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/addons/rigify/metarigs.html",
      "note": "Blender Manual: Rigify Basic Usage (live); Blender Manual: Rigify Creating Meta-rigs (live)"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Rigify documents rig generation from predefined meta-rigs (scale 1 unit = 1 m; slight knee/elbow bends for direction) but no animation retargeting or humanoid normalisation; its only 'retarget' wording concerns driver rewiring. · locator: Blender Manual: Rigify Basic Usage (live); Blender Manual: Rigify Creating Meta-rigs (live) · source: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/addons/rigify/basics.html

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- documentation: license=unknown hosting=permitted redistribution=permitted modification=unknown training=unknown · Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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