Not quite as planky as before, but I just had to test if I could do this. Partly because I'm almost an engineer and partly because rigging in Blender has been a mystery to me (still is).

Most of these rigs use rigid body constraints, but one of them is done completely with armatures.

Modeling, rigging, animation and rendering in Blender 2.74. Editing and "color grading" in DaVinci Resolve Lite 11.3.

I used Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library (KMODDL) http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/mod... as a source for information.

Music is Lude Illa by Joe Bagale from the Youtube Audio Library.

Cycles Procedural Wood material by http://www.blendswap.com/user/sizzler

Even though I didn't use these HDRs, I think they are so good that they deserve a link anyway. Check them out at http://www.maximeroz.com/hdrifreepack

Sincere thanks to all the people that have made tutorials about Blender and Resolve, because without you, I could not have completed this video.