--- title: Realistic Muscle Deformation Using RBF Rig | daily.dev description: Igor Silva, a Character Technical Artist at Blizzard Entertainment, shared a WIP RBF muscle rig for a character rendered in Unreal Engine 5. The setup uses no... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/realistic-muscle-deformation-using-rbf-rig-myzeot1kw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Realistic Muscle Deformation Using RBF Rig | daily.dev og:description: Igor Silva, a Character Technical Artist at Blizzard Entertainment, shared a WIP RBF muscle rig for a character rendered in Unreal Engine 5. The setup uses no... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/realistic-muscle-deformation-using-rbf-rig-myzeot1kw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MYzeOt1kW.png og:image:alt: Realistic Muscle Deformation Using RBF Rig og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Realistic Muscle Deformation Using RBF Rig **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Igor Silva, a Character Technical Artist at Blizzard Entertainment, shared a WIP RBF muscle rig for a character rendered in Unreal Engine 5. The setup uses no blendshapes — only around 15 bones per side — to achieve realistic torso and arm muscle deformation. A Maya viewport version of the rig is also shown. Related rigging resources for Maya artists are linked, including tools by Thomas Bittner and Zhenggang Deng. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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