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    04 Building an Even Better Ball Rig with Bones

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2D Bouncy Ball

04 Building an Even Better Ball Rig with Bones

How to improve on the ball even more by using bones.

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10 comments
Don P Yuhasz
Don P Yuhasz
June 13th, 2024

Nathan Vegdahl, if you are still around it would be awesome for you to update this! Your presentation is great but it is so hard to figure out what the interfaces should now be.

Ekaterina Levchenko
Ekaterina Levchenko
March 15th, 2023

For Blender 3.3+ (maybe previous too) to see the bones, while armature is selected, go to the "Object Data Properties" (running stick man) or "Object Properties" (box with four corners), find "Viewport Display". Open it. Toggle "In Front" check-box

To rename bone, go to the "Bone Properties" (bone icon)

To select object in pose mode, use Outliner (hierarchy usually on the top right)

alan15
alan15
Sept. 24th, 2020

we cannot select object in pause mode we should reverse to object mode (september 2020)

alan15
alan15
Sept. 24th, 2020

To see the bone now viewport display->show->check "in front" (september 2020)

alan15
alan15
Sept. 24th, 2020

Your tutorial is very good BUT we are now in Blender 2.9, lot of UI change and commands not at the same places. Too old (september 2020)

mwksmith
mwksmith
Dec. 6th, 2020

@alan15 There have been some UI changes but I've found with a little googling you can make it through this tutorial.

地味 キント
地味 キント
Nov. 18th, 2019

Hello anyone! I'm enjoying this very much. But I wonder, why does the main bone rotate the ball? Isn't that what the spin controller is for?

stephanemasper
stephanemasper
Jan. 30th, 2018

Hi, by default in blender 2.79 just under the "Script Expression" selectbox, I had this error "ERROR: Python auto-execution disabled", which can be solved by going in the User preferences in the "File" tab, and ticking the checkbox "Auto run Python scripts"...

Tom Scharstein
Tom Scharstein
Oct. 15th, 2017

I'd been manually creating 2D puppets in After Effects for the last 2 years and am new to Blender and this tutorial series is exactly what I've needed. I appreciate it so much that I've manually purchased the series and can't thank you enough for connecting so many dots and covering fundamentals like this.

Phil Garner
Phil Garner
Nov. 5th, 2015

Thoroughly enjoying both the content and presentation style of your Humane Rigging videos. Excellent.

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