Musical Marble Animation | Step By Step Tutorial In Blender | Rigid Body Physics With Sound & Light

In this Blender tutorial, we have discussed how to create musical marble animations that are quite popular on the social media. We started with the modeling part in order to create the musical steps or the notes. Then we have discussed in length how to use rigid body physics in order to create the desired effect for the musical animation, along with a material change effect on each hit. Please watch the video for the complete tutorial. If you have any question on this tutorial, please leave your comment below.

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00:00 Introduction to Musical Marbles
00:26 How to model one single musical note
02:33 Add rigid body physics into the scene
04:03 Create a series of steps or musical notes
06:11 Some important factors to keep in mind
07:28 Add a background & verify the result
08:04 Lighting & materials for the musical notes
09:50 Conclusion and final thoughts

[evanskachingwe]

Rather than learning one thing at a time, I learned a lot in a single tutorial. No, I am capable of working with ridged, buleean, and other materials simultaneously. Thank you for keeping this announcement brief and to the point. It was not a clickbait. I enjoy your instruction.

[nickyreigns]

Great tutorial. I discovered that there's no need to disable friction as this will cause the ball to not rotate naturally as it would in real life, thus breaking the realism. To prevent deflection, I simply place two vertical planes each set to passive rigid body on both sides of the ball to serve as a barrier. Of course, I have to disable their visibility in the viewport and render.

[drm.mcz.al.]

Tantas coisas por aprender no Blender....muito bom seu tutorial. Parabéns!

[BouncyBALL_music]

Thanks a lot for this. Very simple to follow along also very concise. The only tutorial series that provides all the steps.

[canaldojesa]

Aprendi muito nesse tutorial! Adorei! I am from Brazil.

[onursoker]

Dude, we waiting this video. Thank you!

[Wolfpolie]

I've been looking for these thanks!

[Gaming_And_Edits]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! This helped me alot thanks for explaining it so easy and going at a nice pace! New sub ;)

[NB_nobody]

That was a very clever approach, Thank you!

[istreko]

Thank you very much ! Great tutorial!!!🙏

[LuizBHMG]

Great tutorial! A python script for automating this given a polyphonic MIDI file would be amazing!

[animaltvstories]

absolutely loved it thanks a lot
Just want to ask you one tiny thing when ball hits the notes, how to make the note wiggle instead of lighting up

[mertsari]

this video is rly good im looking for the video which u start with music and the cube matches with the music. I hope this video will come soon! Thank you for your videos ❤

[Mac_Tavish-je]

thank you for the tutorial😊.I have succeeded in making a musical marble animation. As a form of thanks, I will subscribe to this channel

[Jisha_B]

Need Help. @ 9:22 - when I change the Fac value for one note, it effects all other notes as if they are connected. Now when the ball drops on one note, light emits from all notes. How can I change this?

[Dsm]

7:31 why are my nodes not all straight? does it make it invisible attached to the object plane/background?

[ryumains]

I sort of hoped this will show how to create the animation for a specific tune, not a random noise. If you bring in a sound file, the sound spikes must be visible in one of many animation editors in Blender (timeline, graph, nla, etc) and that should make it easier to place the notes correctly.

Also, the camera animation could be automated, if you set it to track the ball movement and copy the relative position with a delay (delay part is important, else the animation will look weird)

[jimw]

Oh WOW! Saw several of these on YouTube and fell in love.
The ones I saw on YouTube I now wonder if they were physical or an automation? Do you know?
Do you also cover making this Bender automation into a physical things?

Thank you so much for this video. I have subscribed and will watch the other tutorials.

[Mac_Tavish-je]

9:09 There are a lot of musical notes. I'm tired of adjusting the color changes on the musical note material one by one every time the marble ball touches it. is there an automatic way to change the entire color of a musical note when the marble ball touches it?

[walkgaming]

hi do you know how to make a tube version or a roller coaster track version... because for me i uses cylinder but the ball just bounce pass it without moving with the tube?