Making an animatable umbrella rig in Blender 2.9 alpha

In this tutorial I'll show you how to make a simple but effective umbrella rig in Blender 2.9 alpha. It can be animated using just one controller!

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[benni]

I liked the overview of the fold method a lot. Could imagine a whole "tutorial" being this style without going into detail on each step, but rather giving an idea of how it works and whicht techniques were involved. Great vid, keep it up 😍😍

[macrumpton]

Every time I see a video like this it makes me feel like there are 5000 ways to do anything in Blender, and it makes me despair of having any kind of deep understanding of it.

[cezanneali]

some really solid techniques there!! amazing work :)

[shadowdemonaer]

I am learning wonderful things from this. My fave thing has to be the constraint. I bet i could use this to make it so limbs and joints can't go beyond a certain point to keep them from breaking...

[burhaann]

this is the best tutorial i ever came across, you went straight to the point
this educated me more then a udemy course i opted for a month earlier🙂
You are the best
This is just another random comment for you but you have no idea what master piece you have made

[jplay]

The best easiest tutorial I have ever seen

[xandervera]

That heightmap solution is brilliant nice work !

[wadalapichu]

im doing an umbrella in maya, but i wanted to see how it could be done in blender, and thats crazy, you did such a good method, really nice job!

[rejectedcircuit]

I needed to make such an animated umbrella and did know it won't be easy. I gave up.
I really appreciate this tutorial, for making it easy, but also for showing a bunch of amazing features I will be using in the future.
Thanks. Subscribed.

[dumpsky]

supercool! tip: just selecting the vertex and then Ctrl+H -> "Hook To New Object" will auto create the Empty for you at exactly the proper position. ;-)

[kamius]

Realy amazing tutorial. I find out how many possibilities are hidden in Blender!

[kamius]

Excellent tutorial. Thanks for easy to follow steps.

[antondingir]

what a crazy lad ! very nice!
but u forget to add a button and shaft that moves up and down with support sticks

[PrashanSubasinghe]

Really like your tutorials! Pretty clear even when tackling complex topics!

[AmyTheArtist]

My mind is so blown right now.. This is SO helpful, thank you so much!

[beatrijsvanhoof]

Great tutorial, Thank you, I tried to do the final step as well, but I could not get the displacement modified at the end right, would be great if you could still elaborate on that!

[abedz]

You will be a well known.blender tutor
Just don't stop. Wishing you best of luck

[kokoalmasry]

this is Amazing an tutorial about the drivers in blender <3
thank you sir

[pile]

Nice job. It would be interesting to parent this to a rigged metal arms of a complete umbrella model.

[cryscameron]

Thanks you for the great tutorial. this is the second time you have come up with a tutorial fixing something that i am stuck on in a different project. ps i would love a bit more in depth tutorial on how to make folds. thanks !