This Simple Bendy Bone Rig Is Powerful | Blender Tutorial

[@melbendigo]

3:20 - For anyone stuck, if you're in Blender 4, use Shift-Control-Alt-S to scale the base and top bone.

[@valentinhauben8529]

Thanks🙏

[@karl-jasonmawdsley5128]

The hero we need

[@bagadavid9477]

Hero!

[@HinnerkHesse]

I love you

[@andreamelo4495]

Mitico !!!

[@StarLabs3D]

Good information

[@harmvandenbrand]

Was modeling a tail for a cow and got frustrated with getting its curve both smooth and in the shape I wanted it. This helps tremendously, hadn't heard about bendy bones before, thanks!

[@NickCMOS]

My god. I have been using blender for so long and never even knew about this feature. THANK YOU.

[@JimPAnimation]

This bendy bone rig is the best when you set it as a parent for a lattice. And the lattice can control a greasepencil object. *it's way easier than parenting gp to individual bones via vertex groups.

[@MatheusSilva-qn3et]

Why am I only seeing this now? I feel stupid, a simple and powerful tool, and I am replicating exactly that in a totally complex way. Why have I never seen anyone talk about this? why?

[@TheNbCz]

So sick thanks for this

[@-Umful-]

This solved so many rig problems I've had. Very nice tutorial! 👍

[@SilverKlapwijk]

wonderful tutorial, this is so handy! :)

[@hdezignstudio1694]

Live saver! I had a mesh that I needed to alter it during my animation and this is the exact solution I was looking for. And for anyone, whose armature may not work, as in case of mine, you have to make sure your bendy bone is scaled down (encapsulated) inside you target object. Otherwise you might have auto weight paint error on bones.

[@Spamkromite]

The bendy bones are inside the arms all right but I still get the bone heat weighting warning and nothing works.

[@RioNewss]

Not just this , we can use this for making Products animations, pipes etc ♥️

[@puppeli]

For some reason, I had to do this 2 times, before i got it right. When i didnt follow your steps 100% right, things broke down and i had no idea how to fix things... I guess it just shows, that i need to do a few more rigging tutorials, before i understand what im doing.

[@lalithaananthan3023]

volumic stretch & squash is there wow

[@equransu2308]

this tutorial is properly helpful.

[@kenzietownsend6644]

Works on springs. After converting curves to mesh. I've been stuck on a spring object portion for almost two days. :D Thanks.

[@juanfernandez1474]

great tutorial! thank you

[@joshuadrewlow]

Amazing tutorial. Thansk a bunch!

[@JTC020]

this will be useful for making osc characters

[@thetruthinwonderland]

Great tutorial! I’m gonna try this out for myself the next chance I get. I learned something today. Thanks a lot!

[@kiranprem-z3p]

awsome bro lots of love from india

[@bagadavid9477]

Cool! THnaks!

[@Kaffeesympathisant]

insane buddy! Thanks a lot.

[@Trait74]

This is incredibly helpful thank you :)

[@luzid.vision]

Sick, thank you so much

[@Tinfoil.Hatter]

Thanks Pixxo...well presented

[@niemanickurwa]

Cool tutorial man, nice one.

[@cg_lexus]

THX VM!

[@efrenmorenoa]

amazing, love it, it defenetly work, important, the steps are only in that order, i change some by error and give bad results, im in blender 4.0, it stil work and is amazing, to edit the shape of the bones its only in pose mode, haha, it help me a los this tutorial, defenetly save this in "important blender" list, hehe, thanks

[@Aaws424]

Great job man 👏

[@maksymilianfic1950]

Is it possible to use this kind of bone to pose a snake? Like to male a snake coil around another object with this, or are there better ways to do so?

[@lalithaananthan3023]

thanks very much.

[@byAndreasEkberg]

I am testing to do this to png images that I bring is as Planes, such fun times to animate doodles I have made and scanned : )

[@MartKart8]

I know shortcuts can be good, expect some of them never work in Blender, like how would I be able to perform certain actions without them. Example pressing Ctrl and Z opens the graphics menu, and not the same action the person did?

[@mch43856]

Rly useful ty!

[@StudioHoekhuis]

Great tutorial, I've been looking all over for this, thanks!

[@GameDevAraz]

thanks!

[@ekiri_dreams]

THANK YOU SO MLUCH !! this is gonna be great to animate hair and clothes without having to rely on the physics

[@niemanickurwa]

Im curious, how did it work with the clothes, success?

[@ekiri_dreams]

@@niemanickurwa it worked wonders ! I put some on floating fabric and it makes me able to control how it bends

[@AB209]

Great video. Do you by chance have a tutorial for creating a Spline IK?

[@AntoniusBoerenbrink]

Hi. I realize it has been a year since you uploaded this video. So i hope you are still reading and and be able to answer my question. I tried to attach external objects to the Flexible bone rig in the way you usual would do with a regular bone rig. Not that hard 😁. How ever. This results for the attached object to deform along with the rest which in the case of my intended animation is undesirable. Can you give me a tip how to get around this issue? Thanks.

[@watercat1248]

this is almost what i need for my game however i need more control then start and the end in my case i wand to have the option move the mid poin as well

[@dariozanze4929]

Connect two bendy bones?

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

@@dariozanze4929 yeah, I'm looking at making a worm using this and will probably just make each ring segment a single one of these and just parent them together (comes with the benefits of being able to make procedural lengths and easier customisation if I want to have more species). Definitely treat these as basically a single bone and just use multiple when you need more control, and just cut down the number of segments if you Really need the performance savings.

[@kushalkushal-sm7xd]

Will it follow the follow path ?

[@Shimaa_hamed]

Informative

[@hazwanthesolutions6320]

Whaatss👌very helpfull thanks

[@KattaCambrino]

Question. I'm planning on adding a head onto this rig and was just wondering how I would do it

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

Fairly new to rigging, so I might be wrong but its should be fairly simple, just depends on Exactly how you want it to control it. You can either just leave it as is and make your head the child of the end(top) node; or you can set up a more rigid skeleton that's used for controlling the b. bone, in which case you'd make the control bone and base bone children of whatever is at the base of the tube, then make the end bone either a direct child of the control bone, or the child the control bone's child (the former is easier to work with but might be less controllable that you'd like if you want the head moving around in lots of awkward ways) and make the head's base bone a child of the same bone. All options should be about equally janky, it's mostly just a matter of how much control you want over them and what makes sense to you.

[@iimoonee1354]

Does this rigs work for hairs ?

[@reeanimationgaming1034]

ctrl + alt + S doesn't work, it just tries to save the scene

[@jpleavit]

Same, here, these boners don't want to get bigger for me either 😔

[@TheScorpion0081]

Do you have the PowerSave addon?

[@BlenderVedaEnglish007]

Ctrl + Alt + Shift + S In newer blender versions

[@abeachristine5446]

@@TheScorpion0081 Thanks bro 💯

[@dylansherrick1035]

ctrl alt s just takes me to the save menu. How are you making it so it scales the bones?

[@Andresinia]

Shift + Ctrl + Alt + S should work :)

[@Userunavailable-i1t]

@@Andresinia you are a hero

[@gabrielborg520]

@@Andresinia Truly a legend amongst men

[@monikachhetry5286]

Hi can you make beads embroidery with yarn tutorial

[@Spamkromite]

7:18 Do you know why I get the message of "Bone Heat Weighting: failed to find solution for one or more bones"? I don't know what I did wrong when I followed everything to the T 😭 Oh... apparently by scaling the model and armature to x1000 times and applying that scale and then doing the automated weight painting again solved the problem for me. I don't know why but then I scaled everything down to what it should be and now everything is perfect 🤨

[@terryblush]

Just a quick question. See the settings for this leg/bone/tool, is it possible to keep from stretching

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

Hmmmm, I think you'd need some form of secondary rig to constrain the end to a set distance from the base, same as if you need to constrain the angles it can bend to.

[@lifebeezy1274]

YEAAAAAAH!!!!

[@martynasauz2241]

5:23 I cant access ""add constraints"" tab. This ""shift+ctrl+c"" hot key doesn't work. Any way to around to this tab?

[@robbyip8329]

Make sure you're in pose mode, you can add it manually through there too

[@DesignsbyDonBrown]

How do I limit the stretching?

[@Larseq]

what if you want to subdivide bones and control the mid point too

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

Make the same basic rig (probably with less bones) and link them together via parenting. Basically, use these the same way you would a single rigid bone.

[@helloenglishstory]

I press Ctrl Alt S but it show screenshoot. Do you know how to fix?

[@MattVarner]

Not being able to scale the nub on a mid-bone you are using as the bendy section is driving me up the wall. I only need/want (for my project) three bones, a base, a top/controller, and the bendy section. But my target object is a "concrete bollard" with dimensions like 3.5in on the x and y and something like 42 inches long, and the final mid-bone nub looks like an overinflated basketball that blocks the view of my controller bone. I tried creating the bones on a smaller scale and then scaling the whole thing, and it just repeats the problem, and I'm at my wit's end.

[@phlipclip5097]

I tried recreating your problem as I had it as well. Once he creates the armature, he does into Edit mode before scaling it. Then you use G to move the nub down. Then create the extension. After that he scales. If you scaled before that, it gives you a weird oval tail bone.

[@MattVarner]

@@phlipclip5097 Appreciate you, friend. 🤜🤛

[@kr_1050]

Hello in my blender I don't have automatic weights 😞😞

[@gabrielborg520]

Maybe this is a late response but make sure you are selecting the mesh first than the bone and it will appear. Cause I did it the other way around and it did not appear.

[@Cancel_3d]

2:35

[@steffikehler9088]

im stuck at 5:11

[@georgenyvlt]

Sorry but those shortcuts you're using don't work for me

[@Gredran]

Give more details like which Blender version you’re using?

[@georgenyvlt]

@@Gredran for example Ctrl+Alt+s (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+s) wants to save the project for me... I am using the up-to-date version of blender. Basically i can not scale bones... it just doesn't work and the shortcut u used wants to save the project... Can you tell me name of the tool u used with this sc so I can bind it properly?

[@ranx8774]

@@georgenyvlt Go to Edit → Preferences → Keymap, in searchfield type: transform, scroll down and find Pose, last line : Scale B-bone : Shift Ctrl Alt S, Blender 4.02, works for me

[@lilpsaucery]

@@georgenyvlt I was able to figure it out by going to the properties of the bone and changing the "Display Size X, Y"

[@odunayoadebayo942]

Thanks

[@Nstone53]

Another bone tutorial that doesn't work. yey.

[@saberkooshayan6543]

thanks very much.