It would be nice to have included the bit where you added a rig. It just magically appeared. It's put me off a little bit as I like the whole process from a to z. I am trying to work out how to see the rig (bones) but it won't let me because it is a proxy. So there seems a whole step here which I am missing.

I hope this helps for those who don't know the short cuts. V - set keyframe handle type( free, aligned..etc) R - Set keyframe type( Extreme, breakdown...etc) Ctrl tab - To switch between action editor and graph editor(Where he did the height editing and Squash and stretch)

Dude It was great but not looking at the keys you are pressing is driving me crazy, I'm new-new to animation in blender or any 3D software and I get the main point you are getting at but not how you did it.

This tutorial is surely not meant for beginners.No explanations about channels, no explanations about how to insert keyframes for certain channels at certain positions. I gave up at around 9:50. No idea how to get to this starting position. I first have to look for a more basic tutorial about animation.

really like your silky smile seeing the life in the ball. That's the magic of animation

Where are those files ??? XD

Interesting that an apparently innocent ball needs already such a complex rig. But yeah, let's just understand everything why...

Why u need scale z axes while animating squash?

So I downloaded Blender 3.1, trying to follow this but can't find where to make a proxy for the ball?? Object/ relations/ ...there is no more make proxy and ctrl+alt+P doesn't work as a short cut :/

I'm using version 3.1, so there are things that have been removed or done differently, for example"make a proxy" i think was delete in this version.

They should really update these tutorials

hello my frien, can you tellme where is the colection GRP-Ball? please :)

I can do the step of the very beginning I try and link the file that works and then I do proxy that works than type in rig and tons of stuff comes up but nothing called ball....what am I missing im so lost.... --edit im found what the issue is if you do all the steps but you need to put it in a collection and also I did the proxy from the windows not hotkey when you do it it will ask you which rig and you select the right one you should see the rig controls and than hit tab and pose mode to edit the sphere.

hello , i have trouble , when i link i cant see GRP collection , the file only show ball1 ball2..and extra :(

Please try as much as possible to tell we the beginners what keys you are pressing or at least activate your screencast keys next time. It's hard to follow especially the dope sheet part, my curves cross the base (the ground on which the ball is supposed to bounce - I use G to move it).

I am watching this and wondering if there's not a way to preserve the volume of the object so you only have to squish the thing on one axis - the maintain volume modifier it seems to be called. Is this cheating? :)

There are missing steps in this tutorial. The creator seems to be improvising from a general outline instead of taking the time to prepare things step-by-step.

Hey, for those of you who are stuck with the first few minutes (specifically with doing the proxy and it DOES NOT APPEAR the BALL), go to the course assets and download the file, there will be the ball which works correctly to do the link and the proxy.  Enjoy animating:)

"She, or he or it, I don't know, whatever" Whoa, you're treading dangerous ground dude! Twitter might get mad at you.

Hi @Nacho Conesa, how can I make the handles visible even if I don't select the whole curve/parts of the curve? As of right now, I can only edit the handles by box selecting parts of the curve to make them visible. Thank you! :)

Muy bueno el curso muy entretenido y muy explicado. :)

Hello, I know this is such a beginner question, but I have a simple rigged character in a blend file, and I want to link it to another blend file. However whenever I try to link the character to another blend file, it just links the entire character along with the armature. In this video, only the character (ball) is linked, and the armature/rig only appears when "make proxy" is clicked? How can I properly link a rigged character? I'm not sure how to set up the original file to be linked. (I have my character mesh and its rig under the same collection)

Feels like so much has been missed from pt1 transitioning into this

Interesting concepts... I may watch this just for the animation content, but it would be good to learn Blender as well while going through the content - as many have mentioned, this is hard to do with the current tutorial. It is challenging to follow if you are using blender 3.0 as features have changed... - for instance, I don't know how to rig up the ball without proxies (partially since this is my first time doing anything like this).

Thank you Mr. Hjalmarsson and the Blender team for putting these together. Your work in making this sort of information more available is phenomenal and we couldn't thank you enough as a community. May all of your efforts be fruitful.

This series  contains some amazing  insight into animation principles , and in that respect it is great. Unfortunately it skips over the practical Blender skills that many viewers of the course will be lacking.  A more step by step approach, building on practical blender skills at each stage as well as teaching more general animation principles would be more accessible and useful.  The 'Geometry Nodes from Scratch" series is a great example of how to structure a tutorial course.

Having a lot of trouble/frustration - using Blender 3.3 and very hard to follow. Could this series be updated please? Did some reading and got past the Make Proxy issue by using instead:

Object -> Relations -> Make Library Override...

THEN, in Scene Collection navigate to Collection -> GRP-Ball -> Hidden -> RIG-Ball. Make sure RIG-Ball is selected and then in Object Properties find the Visibility Area and tick "Show in Viewports"

Was able to follow on a bit after that, however, in the Action Editor I don't know how to make it show both "Ball" and "Assistant" channels - I have to work on them separately?

Other than version differences, there's a lot of assumed interface knowledge that goes beyond "Beginner" I think - especially rig controls and proxies/library overrides.

Hello I use version 2.93 of Blender for this tutorial. My problem is that the RIG Data proxy does not display on objects other than the balloons in the source file. So this technique does not work with the objects I model. What for?