Rolling Ball Basic Exercise
3. Rolling/Bouncing Ball
In the first week, we were given two basic exercises for practice on giving an object a natural feel to it when using animation by our external mentor Mr. Ahmad during class, better known as the ‘rolling ball exercise’, and the ‘bouncing ball exercise’. These two seemingly easy to accomplish animations were not as simple as we thought. The two exercises also taught us a few basic rules in 2D animation, which in fact also applies to all other kinds of animation. These rules are:
- Squash and Stretch
- Acceleration and Deceleration
- Variation of height of a falling object
- The slightly different trajectories for the bounces of a ball
/reflections of -theKNEES.