Bouncing Ball 3D Animation

Hello Everyone!

This is my first 3D animation. Ball bounce is the animation which forms the basis of all other animations.

We were given a ball that was already rigged and told to animate ball bounce.

This ball had 4 controls:

1. up_ctrl (stretch and squash control 1)

2. transform_ctrl

3. down_ctrl (stretch and squash control 2)

4. COG_ctrl

Using the Transform control, you can move the ball around. I moved the ball in X-axis and made it bounce on Y-axis. Then I made it rotate in the Z-axis. Here is the graph for the Transform control:

X-axis:

Y-axis:

Z-axis:

Using the steep-to-curve and curve-to-steep method, editing the graph gave slow in and slow out effect.

The Stretch and Squash controls helps you to give the ball the stretch and squash effect, making it look more appealing. Here are the graphs for the controls:

Up control X-axis:

Up control Y-axis:

Down control X-axis:

Down control Y-axis:

The COG control was not to be altered with as it acts as a marking for the ground and also helps in transporting the file.

After all the tweaking, the end result was something like this:

A playblast of the animation.

Hope you all liked the animation!

See you soon.

Bye!

~~~~~~~Chinmayee. S