ASSIGNMENTS

Animate CC:   Assignment 1: Bouncing Balls

The Ball Bounce
Animating a ball bouncing will help you to understand the effects of gravity on a ball. It will also help you to understand how animators use key frames to animate the extremes of different motions, and then follow up with in-betweens.  

To get started on how to animate a ball bouncing you will want to thoroughly check out a web page called the Angry Animator.  He does a wonderful job af explaining the steps involved in animating a ball bouncing.

Challenge Yourself:
Consider animating a bowling ball, a ping pong ball, a basketball, tennis ball, rubber bouncy ball, or a baseball.  

How can you emulate gravity and the quality of squash and stretch when these balls appear when they bounce?

• Animate at least 2 contrasted bouncing balls showing as many of the principles of animation as you can.
• Use different layers for each ball. 
• Add primitives such as cubes, planes, and use them to create simple obstacles for the balls to hit.
• You must also have sound when it hits the object or wall

Be sure the balls have very obviously different weights.  
Rolling, squashing, and stretching should be included

Excellent video tutorial for ball bounce:

ball.mp4
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