Rigging 101: How to Rig a CGI Bouncing Ball in Houdini 16 - Beginner 3D Tutorial

In this beginner rigging 101 3d tutorial, I show you the CGI techniques on how to rig a bouncing ball in Houdini 16. I go over how to set up the controls and all of the other connections and deformers needed to complete the bouncing ball rig. Video Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:19 Beginning of Tutorial 01:38 Making Controls 01:50 Master Control 05:30 Ball Bottom Squash and Stretch Control 08:18 Ball Top Squash and Stretch Control 10:29 Ball Mid Squash and Stretch Control 12:10 Rotate Control 14:28 Ball Center Position Zero Point Control 15:33 Creating an Expression 20:28 Setting up a Lattice 22:05 Creating Selections 25:43 Assigning groups to selection 27:32 Building Connections 35:00 Create a Transform: Rotate Transform 37:02 Volume Adjustments 42:28 Clean up 48:02 End of Tutorial & Outro ExpressionsI used: Find Midpoint: (ch("../ball_topSS_ctrl/tx")+ch("../ball_bottomSS_ctrl/tx"))/2 Scale X and Z for Squash and stretch: sqrt(1/(sqrt((ch("../../ball_topSS_ctrl/ty")+1-ch("../../ball_bottomSS_ctrl/ty"))^2))) Advanced Scale X and Z for Squash and stretch: sqrt(1/(sqrt((ch("../../ball_topSS_ctrl/ty")+1-ch("../../ball_bottomSS_ctrl/ty"))^2+(ch("../../ball_topSS_ctrl/tx")-ch("../../ball_bottomSS_ctrl/tx"))^2+(ch("../../ball_topSS_ctrl/tz")-ch("../../ball_bottomSS_ctrl/tz"))^2))) Affiliate links for my equipment: My workstation: http://amzn.to/2gQ13El Cintiq 13HD: http://amzn.to/2gPGMin Camera: http://amzn.to/2vs9gC0 Lens: http://amzn.to/2vs7vEL LightKit: http://amzn.to/2vIhdSY 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 If you would like to support CGI Nerd you can do so through PayPal HERE: https://www.paypal.me/AlejandrosVlog 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰 Follow Me: www.facebook.com/CGINerd www.twitter.com/CGI_Nerd www.instagram.com/CGINerd #CGINerd