Sphere Ball Rig with Squash and Stretch Maya Tutorial

[@samsanimationcorner3820]

Thank you so much. My animation teacher wanted me to do an animation with a ping pong ball and a bowling ball, but the the ball she gave us to work with won't scale, so my pingpong and bowling ball would end up the same size. At the rate she answers her e-mails, and with hardly anything free that's pre rigged, I decided it was easier to make my own. I've got nearly a year's experience modeling in Maya, no experience rigging, so this will be my first foray into that.

[@WhatMakeArt]

Take it step by step and enjoy the fun Hope your animation ball rig project turns out good 👍

[@samsanimationcorner3820]

@@WhatMakeArt One question, so how come when I go to the connection editor to modify the controller is factor greyed out? When I make the connection, it also doesn't do anything.

[@WhatMakeArt]

You likely didn't click everything in the right order in the properties on the right. You have to select everything in the right order for it to be activated. I know it's frustrating but I recommend trying to follow the steps exactly

[@avygaildelmontealcantara9894]

Such a big help for my 3D Animation assignment! Thank you!

[@WhatMakeArt]

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[@MiMicheIIe]

A little update: Connecting the squash attribute as shown in the video may not work for you anymore, depending on your Maya version. To fix this, select the squash_ctrl controller and the squash1HandleShape in the node editor, then connect the Squash attribute to the Factor of squash1HandleShape.

[@WhatMakeArt]

Thanks for sharing the updated method with everyone, will make sure to make a revised Maya video and post a link

[@noticeme4846]

How exactly to do that? I'm a sort of beginner so I'm not sure what are nodes

[@WhatMakeArt]

Looking the attribute editor and channel box

[@victoriajohn7079]

The old way still worked for me.

[@WhatMakeArt]

@victoriajohn7079 thanks for sharing

[@Wendyjoys]

This is awesome! You are so good at explaining how to do this!

[@WhatMakeArt]

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[@saintrackula2437]

OMG your explanations are so clear ! thank you so much

[@WhatMakeArt]

You're welcome, 👍

[@EV_Prod]

This is lifesaving

[@WhatMakeArt]

Glad it helped

[@alext-rex5492]

I've been looking everywhere for someone to explain this, thank you a lot! You do a very good job and explain everything with a talent! :)

[@WhatMakeArt]

Glad it helped 👍🏐⚾🎱⚽🥎🏀

[@makeupkat4745]

this was so well explained and shown! everything was clear and it was a pleasure to learn from you!

[@WhatMakeArt]

Glad it helped, happy animating 👍

[@grafidargraphics8628]

Ya you are right

[@WhatMakeArt]

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[@paku7329]

This video is so easy for beginners like me!

[@WhatMakeArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rolandorodriguez6918]

It worked well for the entire animation but when i export it in FBX and use it in another scene or engine, the animation plays without the squash movements. Do you know why?

[@WhatMakeArt]

The squash is a deformation, so perhaps it needs to be baked or frozen, have not imported it as an FBX before

[@barkhadighe8672]

Very helpful video. Thankyou

[@WhatMakeArt]

Glad it helped 👍

[@ericoftheotherworld1525]

How does one figure this out on their own? jeez, some things in maya can be really crazy sometimes.

[@WhatMakeArt]

All software and processes can be a little confusing for a bit but generally become more familiar with use, but Maya has a lot of legacy interfaces that can be extra confusing

[@ericoftheotherworld1525]

@@WhatMakeArt Aw yes, I remember the first time messing with music recording software, but this is even more of a mess. I feel like it's definitely something you can't learn on your own unless someone someone knows how to do it, because things are very specific. Thank you for your clear and concise instructions, this will help me animate my joyful rubber ducky XD.

[@masoudrashidinezhad9429]

Please learn more about Rig. Thanks.

[@WhatMakeArt]

What do you want to learn? 👍

[@masoudrashidinezhad9429]

​@@WhatMakeArt work with Expression Editor, Connection Editors and and especially Utility nodes in Rigging. Thanks a lot.

[@Cocoandco_off]

it worked but if I add a global scale on the ball the squash don't work anymore, the squash handle scale too but it feel like it's not, someone know I can fix this please ?

[@WhatMakeArt]

Is everything parented to the global scale?

[@Cocoandco_off]

​@@WhatMakeArt Thanks for the quick answer ! Yes everything is parented, I have a main group named 'all_anim" which has a global scale on it. But I found a solution, in the node editor I connected the squash attribute output from the squash controller to the factor attribute of the squashHandle. In the outliner I put these two out of my group "all_anim" then I created a new nurbCircle into "all_anim" and I put it on the top of my sphere geometry. (with a freeze transform and a delete history of the nurbCircle once I placed it) And again in the node editor I connected the translate Y of this nurbCircle to the input of squash attribute of the squash controller. Then I hide the squash controller and the squashHandle (which are still out of the group "all anim") into the outliner and the viewport so I can only see my all_anim group in outliner, and have the nurbCircle that work with the globalscale in the viewport. It's a little messy for an explanation and my english isn't perfect sorry 😅

[@natoc9293]

WoW you help me Thank you so much !!

[@WhatMakeArt]

Welcome 👍

[@isshmeet]

The inputs of squash1handle aren't whitened out to make a connection. Instead, they're totally greyed out and when I click the squash attribute on the left and then the factor on the right in the connection editor; there's no connection being made. It's just blank and the squash does not work. Any idea how I can correct this issue? Would be really helpful. Thanks in advance. :-D

[@WhatMakeArt]

You have to click squash over in the right hand side of the screen first so that you can get the right attributes. Go back and look at the video and make sure you do everything exactly on the right order and it should work

[@isshmeet]

@@WhatMakeArt oh yes. I went over it three times. They’re always appearing greyer out. Tried it with 3 polygons with enough subdivisions too to make sure that it’s not the subdivisions causing an issue. Still the same. But yeah I’ll probably try it again if it works in any way. Thanks. 🙂

[@WhatMakeArt]

Sometimes it might be best to start with a new scene to make sure you didn't have any settings wrong, sorry that you're having trouble with the technique

[@isshmeet]

@@WhatMakeArt Oh yes surely. No worries. Not a problem in starting again.

[@arturogranados2138]

thks bro

[@WhatMakeArt]

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[@utsavinfinity3272]

When i import file it doesn't do the squash btw thanks this vid was a great help, hope u can give a solution to this 😊

[@WhatMakeArt]

When you import it, make sure it's referenced correctly, sometimes the actual controllers will be inside a folder on the left of the screen

[@thecuriousbeing2969]

I successfully created the exact same thing. But the concepts and principles used are beyond my understanding :( I know what to do, but I do not know why it should be done and what it does.

[@WhatMakeArt]

The more you use it the more it will make sense

[@jonathandupuis2634]

ty +1 like

[@WhatMakeArt]

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