#ballanimation

This is my finished spider ball animation. This allowed me to practice squash and stretch, secondary action and follow-through action in one “simple” exercise. being able to turn a simple ball bounce into whatever we wanted was fun and testing the limits of exaggeration when it comes to animation which is why I had to re-do it several times to make it exaggerated and interesting while also remaining believable. overall I’m pleased with the outcome although some of the leg actions are still a bit jittery I think it makes sense as to what's going on.

Today we made a ball bounce animation inside of TV paint without using any reference. when I played through this rough animation though it didn't look quite right so I got some feedback from Helen who said its good but it starts off a bit slow and the squash and stretch is quite jagged so if I tidied that up slightly then it would look smooth I took her advice and the second version (not in this post) looks allot better. I also added spider-like legs to the ball so that I could also animate some secondary action which was explained with a really helpful Alan Becker tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjBHWw1TbP4 ) 

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