Squash&Stretch Ball Rig

Posted on by

JiriH has created this nice squash and stretch ball rig to give beginners an introduction to rig animation. However, note that the rig only works for Blender 2.46 RC and hopefully the final 2.46 release as well.

Jiri writes:

More and more Blender users are starting to practice animation. As we know professional squash & stretch ball rig is the must to start with. After weeks and weeks of research I am releasing Blender Squash Stretch Ball rig.

I plan to release in depth DVD video tutorial during this summer as well. Hope that release notes are clear, I tried to make a rig very animator friendly and intuitive. Looking forward to your videos :-)

Get the rig here


Be Sociable, Share!

    Twitter



    Please support us

    • sypher7

      Neato, looks like a really good beginning lead-by-example tool for rigging.

    • JiriH

      8-O, I am watched :-)))
      Thank you Bart, it is honour for me that my work is mentioned here at BlenderNation.

    • http://amdb.blip.tv amdbcg

      great job! woot!
      feels sooooo nice :)

    • http://www.martylog.com Martin

      Thank-you for sharing this!

    • http://e2-productions.com/ Dion Moult

      AWESOME!
      *downloads*
      Thank you so much.

    • http://shanenewville.deviantart.com Ghost_Train

      Haha! That’s hilarious. Out of all the days in the world. Just today I cracked down and decided to
      learn shape key drivers and using them to squish and stretch a ball. Not this is here?
      Awesome.

    • Aka

      I’m also using blender but in max u have special modifiers for this kind of things like stretch, squash etc. U don’t have to spend additional time for rig setup. but tut is great

    • ATK

      @Aka

      Blender has them too: they’re called ‘lattice modifiers’

    • http://www.watchmike.ca Mike

      Rockin! Never seen such an advanced setup for a ball, and a good one at that.

    • myselfhimself

      hey are there any animating tutorials around that teach squatch and stretch ?

    • racreel

      Very cool! The auto-roller function doesn’t seem to work in 2.46 RC3, works fine in 2.46 RC2.

    • http://www.nexusomega.com Moose

      That is the sexiest thing I’ve seen in a while…

    • ArtIsLight

      nice. will be great for rolling the ball around and doing some good bouncing techniques. Not just beginners can use this rig… unless more advanced users would make their own…

    • racreel

      Auto-roll works in RC4.