Add Squash & Stretch

This Exercise is part of the course: Blender Animation Bootcamp

Part of the Learning Flow:

Animation in Blender

Chapter 1: Developing Your Eye
Learning to animate is learning to see.
Chapter 2: Everything is a Bouncing Ball
Complex animation is a collection of its simple animations. And those simple animations can almost always be analyzed as bouncing balls.
Chapter 3: More Ball Animation Goodness
Not so fast - I'm not done teaching you everything there is learn from bouncing balls!
Chapter 4: Let's not forget Squash & Stretch
This is the last chapter focusing on ball animation. Who knew there was so much to learn from balls?
Chapter 5: Into the Character Realm
We're diving into characters at this point. In this chapter, we cover one more animation principle and introduce you to the VonnBots!
Chapter 6: Can you walk the walk?
Summon all your animation skills to create believable and appealing walk cycles for the Stomp and Rivet VonnBots.
Chapter 7: In Closing
Congrats on finishing the course! If you're wondering where to go from here, this video from Wayne answers that question.
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Software: Blender 2.78
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So Squishy

OVERVIEW

This exercise is designed to be an application of the information learned in Chapter 4 of the Animation Bootcamp course, especially the Squash & Stretch lesson. The assignment will train you to incorporate the principle of squash and stretch to emphasize realistic and/or exaggerated elasticity to objects in motion. The method is straight forward: Take your exercise results from the Vanilla Bounce and the Arcing Bounce exercises and add squash and stretch to them. Vanilla bounce with Squash & Stretch Arcing Bounce with Squash & Stretch

INSTRUCTIONS

Locate your Vanilla Bounce and Arcing Bounce .blend files. If you opt to skip those previous exercises, you can download the Add Squash & Stretch: Source Files from the Downloads tab and unzip to reveal the substitutionary .blend files.
Squash and stretch your balls to achieve believable and appealing elasticity to both ball animations.
Render your animations as an openGL viewport render and combine both into one video, back to back. Make the vanilla bounce squash and stretch animation loop 3 times first then the arcing bounce.
Upload your video to YouTube or Vimeo.
Finally, submit your exercise by clicking the Submit Exercise button in the top-right corner of this page and pasting your video's URL.

Rules of the Exercise

1

Animation is believable and appealing with squash & stretch added.
2

Submission is in video format.
3

Video contains both squishy vanilla bounce and squish arcing bounce.

j

When I render the images, the floor dissapears so it looks like the ball is bouncing on thin air..anyone know why?

2 answers · asked October 28, 2017 2:05am

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Joseph Stout
2 answers · asked October 28, 2017 2:05am

When I render the images, the floor dissapears so it looks like the ball is bouncing on thin air..anyone know why?

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m

No video for Add Squash & Stretch?

1 answer · asked October 20, 2017 7:16pm

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moriel
1 answer · asked October 20, 2017 7:16pm

No video for Add Squash & Stretch?

Almost all of the other exercises had a tutorial on actually doing the exercise. This one, Add Squash & Stretch,, doesn't have a play button. Are we just supposed to create the two animations and submit? Is this the same as "Complex Obstacle Drop"

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Wayne Dixon

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Since 2009, I have been producing high quality character animations for everything from commercials to children's music videos. Working remotely for several small studios, I have been responsible for the rigging and animation of several videos that have received over 100 million views on Youtube. (Making for some very happy clients.)