Squash&Stretch Ball Rig

Published by MathiasPedersen on May 4th, 2008 in Models & Rigs

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

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1 sypher7 May 4th, 2008 at 6:45 am

Neato, looks like a really good beginning lead-by-example tool for rigging.
2 JiriH May 4th, 2008 at 9:58 am

8-O, I am watched :-)))
Thank you Bart, it is honour for me that my work is mentioned here at BlenderNation.
3 amdbcg May 4th, 2008 at 10:16 am

great job! woot!
feels sooooo nice :)
4 Martin May 4th, 2008 at 10:45 am

Thank-you for sharing this!
5 Dion Moult May 4th, 2008 at 11:51 am

AWESOME!
*downloads*
Thank you so much.
6 Ghost_Train May 4th, 2008 at 1:15 pm

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.
7 Aka May 4th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

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
8 ATK May 4th, 2008 at 5:00 pm

@Aka

Blender has them too: they're called 'lattice modifiers'
9 Mike May 4th, 2008 at 5:26 pm

Rockin! Never seen such an advanced setup for a ball, and a good one at that.
10 myselfhimself May 4th, 2008 at 10:08 pm

hey are there any animating tutorials around that teach squatch and stretch ?
11 racreel May 5th, 2008 at 12:39 pm

Very cool! The auto-roller function doesn't seem to work in 2.46 RC3, works fine in 2.46 RC2.
12 Moose May 5th, 2008 at 2:02 pm

That is the sexiest thing I've seen in a while…
13 ArtIsLight May 5th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

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…
14 racreel May 6th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

Auto-roll works in RC4.

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