More bouncing balls

Posted by Avner Engel in Animation

Today I had the day off so I continued refining my animation fundamentals by working on more bouncing balls. This time I animated two balls bouncing down the stairs. Once again I used the golf, pool and tennis balls as reference. There are few adjustments in the timing that need to be done cause this is pretty much the first spline pass I did. All up I spent around 3 to 4 hours planning and animating them.

Initially I wanted one of the balls to bounce off the edge of the stairs but it didn’t work out for me cause the stairs I was testing the bounciness on are made out of wood and they don’t bounce the golf and pool balls back very well. After few attempts to create it, I gave up cause it felt like I am getting nowhere.