This was tough to get right because I had to key the rotation in a certain way to allow for the stretch and squash to happen when I wanted and for them to happen along the path of action (the arcs the ball makes). Mike gave me some more notes on the revision so hopefully I can make it perfect for the end of term progress reel!
Our main assignment for this week was to plan out and animate two balls of different weights. I decided to do a bowling ball and a ping pong ball because I like the contrast of movement. I found a couple reference videos online to get a feel for how each one moves. I tried to take the timing from the reference video to mark where I thought the keyframes should go. Here's what my planning looked like...
I crossed out the numbers and wrote in new ones after I had been animating in Maya because once I got in there I realized it didn't feel right and needed to be retimed. Basically the ping pong ball bounces more and higher, and the bowling ball bounces way less and comes to a settle a lot faster. Here's what my animation looked like..
The lighter ball ended up being a lot harder to execute than I thought it would. Mike ended up really liking my bowling ball and just suggested that I either ease way more slowly into the stop at the end or have it slightly overshoot and roll back a little bit to feel natural. For my light ball, he said the spacing made it seem more like a tennis ball, and to push the bounces further and give them more hang time to make it feel more airy. I realized looking back that it really did look like a tennis ball and that's what I couldn't really put my finger on when I was animating. We'll see what he says about my revision next week!
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