Ball Animation: Test 3

Apparently I've already exceeded my weekly upload allowance at Vimeo so I've had to open a new Youtube account so that I can put more vids on here.

Anyway, after feedback from other students on my course, I've tweaked the animation. Main feedback was the yellow ball's slow down wasn't natural (slowed down too fast) and the 8 Ball zoomed off screen too quickly. I've also rendered from home so the textures are fixed now. I'm pretty happy with this test though it probably could do with some more tweaking. I'm not sure where to go from here so I'm going to leave this and begin the pendulum assignment. I will get feedback on both on Wednesday.

Ball Animation: Work in Prog 2

Here is where I am with the ball animation now. The textures are still not fixed, purely because I didn't render at home where they are. I'm happy with what I have so far but still think it needs some improvement, for example the slow down of the yellow ball. It's doesn't slow down naturally enough. I've been messing around with the fcurves but with no success yet. Perhaps I should re-key that part...

I'm going to post it up on facebook for feedback, hopefully I can tweak it and fix that slow down before Wednesday.

Ball Animation: first W.I.P

Here is the first work in progress video which was rendered a day or so ago. I'd only very roughly plotted the 8 ball's animation and hadn't touched the other ball at this point. Unfortunately the textures I had put into the scene were left on my own computer at home and I had rendered this on a computer at university. This will be sorted out before I start rendering final pieces but for the moment I want to concentrate on the animation.

I have just rendered another work in progress video but it will take a while for me to post it here as vimeo takes half an hour to upload a video (because I don't pay for an account). I'll have it posted here by tomorrow with another reference video that I used.

Ball Animation

I've been working on the ball animation assignment, not quite done yet but hopefully should be done soon. This needs to be done (along with a pendulum animation) by next wednesday... or at least roughly done. I can still tweak it up until I have to hand everything in at the end of the module (in about 8 weeks time).

I have taken some video reference on my poorly focused digital camera which I will put here as soon as Vimeo's finished uploading them. I will also post soon a work in progress vid which is still VERY rough!

My presentation is pretty much done. I will upload that tomorrow once I've given it to the class :)

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**EDIT:



The light ball is as I thought it would be and should be quite fun to animate. It slows down at the top of the arc which I need to get into the animation.



The 8 ball is interesting because it bounces once or twice and zooms off for a while before slowing down. Usually in my vids it would hit something before it slowed down to a stop but I think I'll have it zoom off screen in the animation.