Bouncing Balls. Timing and Spacing.

 

This video is to help me see how different types of balls bounce.

 

STOP MOTION

Bouncing ball

The arks are clear and fluent. Its pleasing to the eye.

Squash and Stretch

Shows off speed nicely as well as keeping its volume.

Heavy Ball

Since the ball came in at such velocity its natural for the heavy ball to have bounced as high as it has to then slid on the floor before stopping.

Mind of its own

being able to change the size of the balls was amazing to try out. Having every ball coloured was intentional to make sure when the blue ball leaves the screen near the end and reappears you know that’s the same ball just bigger.

PAPER

Bouncing Ball

I feel that the final sequence seems to show a tiny size decrease.

Heavy ball

Short sweet and the timing is good.

Squash and Stretch

Very cartoony but still keeps its volume.

Mind of its own

I wanted to merge all different types of balls together, thought it would be a cool idea. But I’m not entirely sure if changing the balls size at the end works or not. It acts like a sudden surprise if anything.

Computer Drawn

Bouncing Ball

I absolutely love this one. The arks decrease naturally, the ball bounces fine and the added detail of the tennis ball completes it.

Heavy Ball

simple and straight to the point.

Squash and Stretch

Acts like it’s made of cartoony jelly, has a wavy feeling to it.

Mind of its own

I really enjoyed creating this one, having all three balls merge together to create a recognisable image and having them all have different properties as balls worked well.

 

I really enjoyed this project, being able to try out different methods was wonderful to experience. I think out of the 3, the paper drawn animations are my least favourite to do. This is because I disliked not being able to properly see how fast or slow my animations would have been and being able to instantly see my animations move from stop motion and Computer drawn animations, paper seems very lacking. That however doesn’t mean i wont try out paper animation again to help me get more acquainted to the process.