ANI 30AUG W5

So today in animation class we started off by doing few gesture drawings, contour drawing. Sir gave us a quick recap of the bouncing ball assignment and also demonstrated it again, we then saw few short films like Negative Space, Hulk vs Superman, Madame Tutli Putli, Operation Barber Shop,etc.
Post break we started animating the bouncing ball and it was quite fun to understand and experiment with what kind of ball we were dealing with, all the commands you give to the ball is what you make out of it, for example if the bounces are light and it rotates way too much(spins) it automatically becomes more of an air ball, beach ball, etc. more the weight more the bounce will hit with a thud. I enjoyed animating the ball as this is my second assignment in maya and im getting to understand and explore more and actually understanding the technical aspects of it like the graph editor and what it really does and affects the animation(in a good way)
stay tuned to see the playblast of my animated bouncing ball:)

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