Learning Animation

[NathanHibberdCATK]

They're looking good for basic ball bounces. The first one seems like it should lose a little more height with each bounce. Also don't be afraid to use a little more squash and stretch, particularly on the light ball. The way it is now when I look at the animations frame by frame it looks like there might be a little squash when the ball impacts the ground, but if so it's such a small amount I'm not quite sure if it's there or not.

[Russel-Nash]

Thanks for your comment.
Initially I had much more squash and stretch on the light ball, but I thought it was to much, so I scaled the effect down. Maybe I did so to much. I will go over it once more and post the result later.

As an extra for this lesson one should animate a ball interacting with its environment. So here is my extra:

Ball & Box (http://bluesplinearts.de/WIP/Animate_Tut/ball&box_03.mov) 751 KB Quicktime


Russel

[Russel-Nash]

Here is a first approach for the hierarchy & overlap exercise.

Ball with tail jump (http://bluesplinearts.de/WIP/Animate_Tut/ball_tail_jump.mov) 98 KB Quicktime



Russel

[NathanHibberdCATK]

The ball and box video could be improved by making almost all its bounces faster. They're too slow and it makes it look very floaty.

The overlap animation is pretty good, but could stand to have little more overlapping action as its a bit stiff, especially when it hits the ground.

[Russel-Nash]

Thank you vey much for your critiques, Nathan. I really appreciate them.

Here are some updates:

Bouncing Ball (http://bluesplinearts.de/WIP/Animate_Tut/bouncing_ball_03.mov) 96 KB Quicktime

Ball & Box (http://bluesplinearts.de/WIP/Animate_Tut/ball&box_05.mov) 657 KB Quicktime

Ball with tail jump (http://bluesplinearts.de/WIP/Animate_Tut/ball_tail_jump_02.mov) 103 KB Quicktime


Russel

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