Bouncing Ball Animation Exercise
We were given a task to complete 3 animation sequences depicting balls of different materials bouncing.
The materials which I chose to animate were:
Rubber ball x2
Water balloon
Iron ball
Ping pong ball
The first sequence I created I did entirely from my imagination of what I percieved the movement of a bouncing ball to look like. I did no research prior to starting and as a result the sequence was not very convincing. There was no sence of gravity as the balls in each frame were all placed an equal distance apart.
I decided to start from scratch with the rubber ball sequence and used an arc to trace the placement of the balls.
This helped me align the balls better however I was still not getting a very realistic feel of movement and gravity. The squash and stretch of the ball was over-exaggerated and the overall effect needed to be improved upon.
The next sequence I made was a water balloon.
I realised I could make things a lot easier for myself if I drew out each frame on a singe sheet of paper and later trace them individually.
