Make Stunning Looping Musical Marble Animations in Blender - Blender Satisfying Animation Tutorial 

Hiya! I honestly didn't expect this tutorial to reach beginners. If I realised this and could change it I would. Sadly screencast keys is broken in blender 4.0 also 😭😭😭

good job for answering that fast, even though the video is old 🎉😊 ​@@BlackoutCreatively

You just need to increase the frames in the cache settings of the rigidbody world section of scene properties tab

Thanks!

Hiya, thanks and welcome! Is there another style you've seen before? I can't really think of anything else

I'm glad you liked it 😊

Thanks 🤗

Thanks, and welcome!

Thanks 🤗

Feel free to ask questions

Feel free to ask questions

Conseguiu replicar ? Eu consegui fazer, só falta conseguir colorir do jeito que fique bom kkkkkkk

@@ricardojunior9930 sim, consegui tambem so falta conseguir colorir/colocar efeito que "pisque" sei la. KKKKKKKKKK

Just use the regular scale shortcut. S. 0.2. Enter

Do you have a discord ? so we can speak more easily

I am having same issue , did you fix it?

I had the same problem. then I realised I forgot to press "I" over the checkbox to animate. So it only set a keyframe over the Location, but not the animation. When I fixed that, it bounced again :)

🤔 it's a difficult one. Without knowing exactly the problem it would be hard to answer. Good news is I'm happy to spend a bit of extra time to members of the channel of the membership level: 'vertex' as this comes with the perk 'troubleshooting' via discord

ensure that it also has rigid body physics enabled and set as passive with bounciness enabled as well. then lastly check that you set collision type to box

I'm glad you liked it 🤗

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I've the same problem. did you found a solution?

Hi, I'm sorry - I'm unable to help you with the audio any more than is in the tutorial as I don't know the answer. Perhaps you can use AI to remove the voice like www.lalal.ai/?referral=VTNakcP2&VTNakcP2 but I'd advise to perhaps not use copyrighted music.

You mean the timeline? You can just right click on the frame of the main window, click split horizontal and drag to the height that you like. Then change to timeline with the icon in the top left or hover your mouse over the new window and press shift+f12. You might need to press it twice if you don't see the play/pause controls

Thank you. I don't understand the question though. What do you mean?

Sorry, my bad. There are some videos on RU-vid by a guy called "Victor de Martin", my question was about his style, and how would you create for example the video called "HARRY POTTER Marble Music"? The rails, the lights that turn on when the marble hits, and the sync (which I think is more difficult in that case) Thank you for taking the time of answering@@BlackoutCreatively

@@sebasguitar132 ah I understand. Good question. It's very similar to the way that we animate the one-hit effects for each of the objects, except you just do this with keyframes on the shader instead

Amazing man! I'm always trying to experiment with different ways of visualizing music. Gotta think of a creative way of using this technique to explain musical concepts or just to illustrate what*s happening in complex polyrhythms. If you got any ideas they're welcome, here's what i've done so far [RU-vid]: 1. Jonathan Kreisberg - Canto de Ossanha (Visualizing Polyrhythm) 2. Santiago Sandoval - El Azul (Visualizing Polyrhythm) Not as good looking as your renders but hope to find a way of including Blender in my workflow and improving them, again thank you for your time! ​@@BlackoutCreatively​

Simply hover your mouse over the tickbox and press i key

You just gotta put the notes that you want in the places that you need 😉

@@Blurred3D but how do I place note like F#

​@@Nhatquadatvnsadly I am not a musician, but I believe that each 'block' starts at a C at the bottom

It's difficult to say actually 🤔

Did you remember to remove the constraint?

@@BlackoutCreatively Thanks a lot !! ❤ I forgot that part!

You could maybe try a higher frame rate perhaps?

Thank you. I will try to follow.

Hello. I followed your advice and the ball works fine but I have the problem that the simulation time is only 250 frames. I tried to set the ending higher than 250 frames but it didn't work. Can you give me advice to keep the ball moving? I will be grateful if you help. Thank you very much

@@HaiOng-kl7wzwhat frame rate did you use?

Did you make sure to change the size of the ball very small? Bigger balls won't bounce as much

It works! I didn't think the sizes effect that much in rigid body. Thank you so much. ❤

@@barkin-bakir happy to help

Did you remember to animate the "animated" property also, not just tick and untick? Tick, hover mouse, press i for a keyframes. Then same when you untick

@@BlackoutCreatively I didn't do that. Just to be sure, I need to go to frame 1 tick + key frame, then go to frame 3 then untick + key frame right?

@@zzx2879 I actually made a short to clarify this: ru-vid.comB2aa6fwISpA hope that helps

@@BlackoutCreatively ah I got it, many thanks

Hi, thanks for watching. When I made this tutorial it was designed for people who had pre-existing blender knowledge. I never expected this video to reach such a wide audience. The animation at 9:38 is an example of cladding your own style to the animation. I'd recommend watching my blender beginners video to help you understand the basics of blender 🤗

@@BlackoutCreatively Dude, I think you should explain this animation from start to finish for those who don't know blender at all. I'm sure many people are trying to do it. I've been looking for a decent video for days but I couldn't find it. I don't know the blender program at all :(

@ I totally get that. And if I get time then perhaps I'll revisit this video but cater for people new to Blender

@@BlackoutCreatively So can you send the project file?

I'm sorry, I dont know the software

I don't have enough information to answer this.

My question too 😢

The background is just a HDRI from polyhaven, the ball is default shader with metal and a couple of tweeks. The platforms are the same - just metallic yellow

You need to keyframe the emissions material

That's due to the physics simulation. It's not actually snapping back, only visually. You can trust the location you moved it to and keyframes it or you can remove the rigidbody, keyframes the ball, then add the rigidbody back

@@BlackoutCreatively i press update all frames amd this fix this problem thanks!

add friction if you need friction

@@BlackoutCreatively Just sayin :) wont get friction on you :D

@@cptmeddlits all good its a valid point. personally i've never experienced it before but it may with some so thanks for sharing

I think I'm going to have to make a follow-up Tutorial 🤔

@@BlackoutCreatively yeah you should please 100% I need this so bad😭Thank you, if you could give any help now on how to make it that’s be great, if not no worries !

@@connora1275 just a passive Rigid body like everything else

@@BlackoutCreatively yeah thanks i managed to make them work i think, one final problem im having is: everything was going good but its so inconsistent at parts at first for example the ball bounces off the blocks fine all good and its fine so i place the blocks where the ball goes like normal, but sometimes then i play it back and the balls just going a completely different speed meaning i have to then replace these blocks to fit it and then this sometimes changes again and its just a pattern of the ball keeps changing speed or angle for no reason if that makes sense idk lmao?

@@connora1275 it sounds like you're not updating the calculations often enough. I like to do it on every platform as per 3:30 in the video

I am having same issue, did you manage to fix it?

Ultimately it's going to come down to your PC and how much processing you can throw at it. Make sure you're using the simplest of colliders on the scene - eg, avoid using mesh colliders. Just use box and sphere. If you're already doing this you could periodically bake the simulation to keyframes and then animate the 'animated' setting on the final few of the most recent bake (just like you did at the beginning) and repeat the process as often as you need

@@BlackoutCreativelyhi there thank you for your response I have 3950x 128gb ram n 2tb nvme so i guess my pc is fine, Secondly instead of using complex pallets (which i will use once animation is baked) I decided to use simple box , so up until 30 pallets everything works fine but as soon as i add new platforms everything changes, sometimes in the beginning, sometimes in the middle , so i am not able to finish my project, if you can give me discord or email And help me with it, that would work for me and im okay to pay any fees , but its important

@@OhioNPC911 it's not your GPU that calculates, nor is it your hard drive - it's your CPU. Channel members have access to troubleshooting section of the discord

@@BlackoutCreatively how can I access it

Did you add an existing keyframe first?

Yes

@@subomiayo8938 did you click the track that you're trying to insert above?

Try just running the animation through from the start of calculate to frane

@@BlackoutCreatively i fixed it, Thank you

What I'd suggest is to identify the exact point in the tutorial that you're following when it stops working. Eg, when did it work, what did you do before it stopped working.

i backed the animation of the ball and i think i didnt added bounceiness in regit body are there any way to solve this ? @@BlackoutCreatively

@@uzumaki.naruto.x9857 you mean it's hitting the platform then rolling off without bouncing?

Have you tried applying your transformations? Control A. Then select the transformations you wish to apply. It might not fix it but it is worth a shot if you haven’t already done it.

@@violettracey I tried it already that use to be the first thing when I’m adjusting the scale of rigid body object I don’t have a clue what could be the problem though I tried so many settings but it’s seems like it’s a bug

@@fulopdomotor Sorry. I hope you are able to figure it out.

You need to make sure you "calculate to current frame" or play the animation from the beginning otherwise the simulation won't be accurate when you add another platform. Gotta do this on each and every physics object change

@@BlackoutCreatively that’s what I did. I think you didn’t understand what is my problem maybe because my English is so bad but the problem is when I replay the animation to see where should I put the next platform I add the platform and the simulation just changes and the ball falls down on the second platform the whole simulation has a totally different outcome. if I could send you a video about my problem that would be great.

Which part are you struggling with?

@@BlackoutCreatively do you have discoard so i can text u on how to do the new one bc on tiktok theres one that fall differently and the marimba sounds are like more vibrating or like echoed out

Can you tell me more specifically at what point did it stop working? which timestamp of the video are you looking at?

@@BlackoutCreatively in 9:42, you can see the ball in video rolling 360, but my ball doesn't roll, it just slipped and bounced

@@tauhaichannel4871 try add some friction

You might still have the constraints on. Remove/disable that and it should work

@@BlackoutCreatively ty!!!

You'll have to be more specific - I'm not quite sure what you mean.

@@BlackoutCreatively Fine. In your example the note has no rotation. You make a dummy, animate it and, roughly speaking, mirror the animation to any note. My note is at an angle. And if I follow your example, then the note moves relative to global coordinates, not local ones For example, my note is at an angle of 90 degrees. And it is animated not in the direction of impact. And down

@@rtur_kotin okay so basically you have a platform that's impacted from the underside, so instead of it moving upwards like in the tutorial, you want it moving in its local Z axis, but no matter how you rotate it the platform aligns to the world coordinates? Assuming the above is correct, what you can do is make sure you're rotating the object in "Object Mode" with the Z of the object facing the direction that you want. Next you want to create an empty object for each of the platforms that dont align to the animation. next you need to put the animation that you made onto the EMPTY that you made and NOT the platform Next you need to add a transformation constraint to the platform, and target the empty as the object, and change the owner to local space with extrapolation. Then map Z->Z 0->1m on both from and to.

@@BlackoutCreatively ty

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Thanks for your feedback. Sadly I can't make every tutorial a beginners tutorial - some basic knowledge has to be assumed. The good news is I have beginner friendly tutorials on my channel which cover the basics.

I don't see the benefit

@@BlackoutCreatively Me neither, I thought I was missing something because I'm new to blender. Btw do you know any way to automate these videos, perhaps with python? I've used moviepy in the past to do other types of videos but these involving physics aren't easily automatable without using blender

@@kevinjiang101 I suppose in theory you could automate it. But you would have to find a way to read the f-curve at a specific magnitude, calculate to that specific frame, place a new collision object and repeat. I tried to use f-curves before with animations like this and failed because the audio is very chaotic so it was hard to isolate the beats, but if you use a simple sound like the track in this videos then maybe it will work better

@@BlackoutCreatively Im actually using a midi file so the note timestamps are already predetected, do you have any idea how I could integrate this with blender? I know python quite well but not too familiar with the blender api specifically. Thanks for all the help btw again

@@kevinjiang101 the only way I know of to get sound data into blender is using the bake sound to f-curves. Maybe there's a python library that you could find that reads midi files but I'm not really into music stuff or python too much I'm afraid

Did you add a passive Rigid body to the platforms also?

ohhyeah i got it, also can you make a full tutorial on how to make those falling music tiktok balls with the glow and tubes?@@BlackoutCreatively

@@RelatableShorts. I'm not sure which you mean?

@@BlackoutCreatively can I give you my discord and tell you about it there? I think if you still are interested in making blender tutorials, this one would do you very good, a lot of people are asking how to do it, it’s very similar to what you’re showing in this video actually.

@@RelatableShorts. I've given in and made a discord server. discord.gg/97VJX3UK

All you need to do is have an empty which has a "copy location" constraint on it to the ball, then you parent the camera to the empty. So click camera, click empty, ctrl p. Now your camera will follow the empty which will follow the ball

@@BlackoutCreatively i tried but the camera rotates according to the movement of the ball and it is not stable🥲

@@animalslove4662 you either parented the camera to the ball, or parented the empty to the ball. Nothing should be parented to the ball. Or maybe you did the wrong constraint. Needs to be 'copy location' not 'copy transform'

I've redid it several times to see what I'm doing wrong, but I can't find the error! do you know what i could be wrong?

Okay so if it freezes you might have forgotten to add a keyframe when you until the animated box. So the process is: tick animated book, hover cursor over box and press key: i. Add keyframe on ball for location. next move timeline and move ball. Add keyframe on ball position and then untick animated box and hover over and press key: i once again to add a keyframe

@@BlackoutCreatively I redid it exactly like this... but it wasn't. Maybe I'm doing it in the wrong order, I'll do it again! Do you have instagram so I can send you a photo?

@@ricardojunior9930 You need to make sure you have an "Active" rigidbody on the ball, a "Passive" rigidbody on the platform, and make sure that in the scene tab the "Rigidbody World" is enabled. Make sure your playhead is set back to the beginning of the timeline and it should work. if not, id suggest that you take it one step at a time. add just a ball with a rigidbody and just play the animation and see if the ball drops. do it one step at a time and see what point it fails at

@@BlackoutCreatively I tested it, it keeps jumping. when i put the first frame it stops working. In the video you cut some parts, I was confused about it. In the first frame you teach, you must put 1 first. ok?

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Okay so let's keep it basic. You add an active rigid body on the ball and a passive on the block. You press play - does the ball fall or stay still?

I know about active and passive rigid bodies, I have put an active ball in above a passive block and yes the ball falls. My point is I have followed the tutorial word for word movement for movement and the results are not the same

I'm not asking you what you know, I'm asking you what you've done and what you're experiencing. Okay so the ball stops when it hits the block but it doesn't bounce?

Fair enough, no, it doesn't bounce, not unless I move it up ridiculously high from the platform. And that's with the same settings you have. And then when I move onto the next bit the initial force and subsequent bounce between the two platforms (again putting them where you have them) is slower and there's no bounce. Getting ahead a bit I know.

@@legoman91 what are the dimensions of the ball please?

Could you point out these differences please so I can see where I went wrong?

@@BlackoutCreatively you did really good tutorial but at STARTİNG ANİMATİON part you tell something and video has no cordination with your saying ı am not a native english speaker ı had hard time to understand. Thank you for your comment

Now I have to search other videos on how to do the simple steps you're making. this could be easily fixed by you saying what to do or what command to use

U can do the blender guru donut tuto

Hi, while I appreciate what you're saying, this tutorial was never intended for people who have never used Blender before. This is an intermediate tutorial aimed at people who already understood the basics. I'm absolutely blown away by how many non-blender users have found this video and I plan on making a more beginner-friendly tutorial, but these things take a lot of time to create and I do this for free. I recommend that until I have the time to make a more beginner friendly video that you perhaps watch my beginner friendly tutorials which cover the basics🤗

Did you pay the video tutorial creator? This person is giving it to you for free and you should be grateful enough for this

press the save button. if its not enabled just remove a note then add it back again. click downlaod wav

Ok thanks

The ball the isn't moving in to the next platform

It's not bouncing platform to platform